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Matt777

Wow. Good read. It's encouraging to see more people joining DART leadership who "get it." Also really discouraging to see the bits about how Collin County (and others like Denton) leach off of Dallas public services for their lower income population. She mentioned how they send their low i...

Matt777

Is it possible this merger could be shot down due to antitrust issues? An axios article seemed to think so.... but that publication can be hit or miss.

Matt777

Here are excerpts from a Design Forecast Live presentation by Ray Washburne (HPV, Watters Creek, KC's Country Club Plaza and more) as reported in D Magazine. I am posting this here because it mentions the MSD project, the pending demise of Chuy's and the future of Knox Street redevelopment. He ment...

Matt777

Lake Ray Hubbard is strangely included in Dallas city limits and is vast. Over 35 square miles or over 10% alone. Same with Joe Pool Lake (12+ square miles) and Add in the areas of other smaller lakes, Trinity floodplain, Trinity forest, and areas around it that are not easily developed and we are t...

Matt777

Agreed except that it will be the suburbs aging into expenditures at an even less dense and more inefficient run rate -- thus losing their cost advantage -- in a decade or two, Practically every suburb of Dallas - Richardson, Plano, Arlington, Garland are all more uniformly dense than Dallas proper...

Matt777

I really, really, really like the rendering of that building. Hoping they're able to get it going.

Matt777

Looking at the floorplan for a typical Bank of America Tower floor, it seems to me that residential and hotel conversion might not be so difficult. If anyone has floorplan design experience, please chime in if you disagree. I could see the "thicker" western and southern portion of each flo...

Matt777

Oak Cliff still battles with a perception problem. For some reason, ppl think this is the Oak Cliff of the 90s. It’s not! I grew up in South Oak Cliff, it was rough in some areas (just being honest) but it no where near like it was then. Not even close. So true. Some people react so ugly when I tel...

Matt777

Fort Worth based AA basically owns that city so we likely won't see an airport open there for usage by SWA, so SWA is basically locked out from any growth in DFW until some random suburb decides to build an airport (unlikely). Southwest can legally expand to any DFW area airport in 2025 without giv...

Matt777

Is there a thread for this place already? I couldn't find one. The Hill has been going through a redevelopment and beautification over the last 3-5 years. It's actually really nice now, beautiful trees and landscaping, and a cool vibe. It's one of the only Dallas strip centers I find attractive. So ...

Matt777

Japanese retailer Daiso plans a second Dallas store The Shops at Park Lane’s Daiso store will open in November and American Girl will be next in early 2024. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/2023/07/18/japanese-retailer-daiso-plans-a-second-dallas-store/ This will be their second Dallas st...

Matt777

Excellent. I will be so relieved to see the construction start in October which isn't that far away. Every time this gets shared on social media, all the naysayers jump on it and 99% of the comments are about how this store will be mayhem and shoplifting.... which is false. I've shopped in North Oak...

Matt777

I think some of those look great from the aerial view, but won't some of them look bland/boring from the pedestrian perspective? The only one I think has a huge impact to someone standing outside is this one: https://www.architecturalrecord.com/ext/resources/news/2023/July/DMA-Design-Reveal/1)-Aeria...

Matt777

Very cool! Thanks for sharing! Bishop Arts is already a very cool area but imagine what it's going to look like in a few years. It's a pretty unbelievable transformation. I’m okay with this. It’s one of the better executed examples of making one giant sprawling building look like multiple buildings...

Matt777

Sounds like a nothing burger. "Gateways" at two sites but still nothing between the levees. "nothing between the levees." I don't know if it's our terrible city leadership that is braindead, or the army corps that is braindead, but parks can be designed to flood. Especially a nat...

Matt777

Looks nice. It's not a groundbreaking design but it still looks better than 95% of other recent highrises.
Approve it and get er done. Great infill.

Matt777

That article seems kind of poorly written and thought out... in my opinion. It looks like they edited the article and title, but originally when I read it this morning it made it sound gloomy and that we were losing local population and only gained some of it back in international migration and birt...

Matt777

My crazy idea to revitalize the Galleria would be all about taking advantage of the large, sunny, climate controlled linear interior space and making it a very visually appealing indoor garden/park of sorts. Lots of plants and water features, the kind of place people would travel to to take instagra...

Matt777

West Village lost momentum. The abandoned Central Market project, horrible CVS development, and suburb style Quiktrip further quenched the flame. The area needs some new housing/retail developments to really go to the next level.

Matt777

Figured it would be good to start a thread. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/2023/06/06/asian-supermarket-h-mart-asks-dallas-for-4-million-for-new-store-in-koreatown/ H-MART is asking for $4 million from the city of Dallas to build a store in Dallas Koreatown, a 10 minute walk from the Roy...

Matt777

I don't know for certain. That's why I wrote "I suspect . . ." Of course the CEO will travel to Dallas occasionally and to other outposts (or hubs) of the company, as the article states. But, also stated in the article, his office will be in NYC. The DMN only said he and his family will b...

Matt777

There's a lively discussion about this going on in the forum's discord channel. This travesty is probably the product of a possibly unethical and possibly illegal collaboration between Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker, DFW Airport management, and American Airlines management...

Matt777

99,000 square foot fitness center in phase 2.... maybe a new Lifetime Fitness? Maybe this is their gym/apartment tower combo that Lifetime originally planned for the International District at Midtown at Old Valley View Beckland.

Matt777

More development in that area is good overall, but these townhomes are going to take out a couple very "Cedars-y" buildings. The old brick retail and industrial buildings on either end of the site. I wish these townhomes were being built on the already scraped empty land across the street,...

Matt777

I posted in its own thread in Urban Development, but the Alto211 building (211 N Ervay) will become 238 apartments.

Matt777

This building will become apartments. It's "thin" nature will lend well to that. Yay for more housing downtown, architectural preservation, and less ancient office space on the books!

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Matt777

I'm looking forward to when downtown passes the 20k mark. Kind of shows how massively underserved Downtown Dallas is when it comes to retail, restaurants, and services. When you look at a town like Uvalde, TX (approx 15,000 population) and how much more they have. I know it's more expensive to put ...

Matt777

Finally: North Oak Cliff next on Central Market grocery store expansion list https://oakcliff.advocatemag.com/2023/04/lake-cliff-central-market/ As much as I like Chad West, and as desperately as I want this store to happen, this seems like a puff piece. Early voting did just begin.... The article ...

Matt777

I probably missed this, but what's going on with the Capital One at Lemmon and Douglas? It's closed and fenced off. Looks like it will be demolished. It could be for renovation, but it's less than 10 years old.

Matt777

Saw an interesting tidbit posted on the Friends of Oak Lawn facebook page by a real estate agent. There was a post about the old Mia's being demolished for a Kroger gas station and small convenience store, and someone asked why the Taco Bueno down the street was never replaced. Who knows if this is...

Matt777

MC_ScattCat wrote:Are they going to demo everything on the lot and rebuild or just renovate the existing buildings? I'm also curious how this will impact Cox Market.

Complete demo of entire site, buildings (Elrod's Cost Plus and Crown Buffet) as well as the current parking lots.

Matt777

Any whispers about the Isosceles tower? I thought it was supposed to get active before the end of Q1 2023. Just curious. Building permits still haven't been issued. (Applied for, which is a good sign, but not yet issued.) I just read an article about the horror Sprouts went through to get a buildin...

Matt777

Target will be building a store in Wynnewood Village, part of a larger remodel of that shopping center. I can't wait to see this. Hopefully it will push HEB to bring a store in somewhere (The Canyon on I-30?) and/or push them to start construction on the planned Central Market in Bishop Arts. https:...

Matt777

Ugh. Still hoping it is turned into a boutique hotel so it is more likely to have a publicly accessible Braniff themed lounge/bar/restaurant.

Matt777

How are they handling presales? I see no floorplans, no info at all. No pretty pictures. No ads.

Matt777

I think the location gripes about this tower might be overstated. Probably a dozen restaurants and bars within 5 or so blocks. Three coffee shops now with Magnolia, B+P, WRC. CVS on Field is walkable. Two or three dozen more restaurants if you're willing to walk 15-20 mins, and super easy access to...

Matt777

This is much more in line with what the Dallas highrise condo market needs. Better location, better scale, and the right design language for the Dallas market. Highland Park/University Park downsizing empty nesters would feel much more at home in a tower like this, in a location like this, than Bleu...

Matt777

Thanks for the info, TWCRE. Sounds like there is a lot of exciting stuff in the pipeline for EQ. Every buzzing neighborhood starts somewhere. I saw some photos of Bishop Arts on facebook today, from before it was revitalized. Absolute desolation with most buildings abandoned and in disrepair. The bu...

Matt777

The location for this Eatzi’s is terrible. The Terminal D extension is so far out of the way (my unverified analysis is that those gates, aside from *maybe* the Terminal E satellite gates, are the farthest distance from a Skylink station of any DFW gates). It won’t be convenient for anyone unless t...

Matt777

The location for this Eatzi’s is terrible. The Terminal D extension is so far out of the way (my unverified analysis is that those gates, aside from *maybe* the Terminal E satellite gates, are the farthest distance from a Skylink station of any DFW gates). It won’t be convenient for anyone unless t...

Matt777

There are tons of condos in Dallas that are older, some highrise, midrise, and lowrise, and there is low inventory of them for sale. They sell quickly when they come on the market. Bleu Ciel and Museum Tower are both deeply flawed, overpriced projects and should not be a barometer for the condo mark...

Matt777

EatZi's fans are getting another local location. They are going to locate in an upcoming 4-gate southern extension of terminal D. It will be smaller than the usual size EatZi's locations. https://www.wfaa.com/article/travel/eatzis-dfw-airport-terminal-d/287-1cfdc443-38a4-47c8-b325-f6ae0e5aa0bc This...

Matt777

Mountain Creek apartment community starting in southwest Dallas Developer NRP Group’s rental project is planned on just-sold land near Interstate 20. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2023/01/24/mountain-creek-apartment-community-starting-in-southwest-dallas/ Talk about low density ap...

Matt777

If Mark Cuban has his way, the Mavs will be building a new arena across Stemmons from the AAC, plus a casino and high rise hotel/resort, which may include multiple towers of varying height. The would really change this area. Of course, this may be a pipedream by Cuban. Did he ever say that his inte...

Matt777

I feel like we need to write them a thank you letter for building buildings that are actually attractive.

Matt777

That article says that just the design work will cost $92 million. Really? Does that seem right? Sounds really high for just the design work.

Matt777

This proposal failed again at Oaklawn Committee meeting last night. OLC stated, "the Lang project is such a significant departure from MF-2 that many of our members can’t offer support, stating that a height increase from 36’ to 390’ regardless of the percentage of the lot included in that hei...

Matt777

I don't know if this is allowed in the USA or for DART, but I wonder if we could switch to a model of letting DART be a transit operator/property developer and operator like the highly successful model Hong Kong uses for the MTR. Article: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights...

Matt777

Does anyone think some of the closings might signal that Northpark might finally be making some big changes and moving towards a mixed-use future? The rebirth of Northpark needs to come soon. There is so much stored potential in the surface parking lots (especially on the north side of the property)...

Matt777

Scrolling through Reddit, came across this. Not sure if it’s true or not…but it would be nice to see additional retail in the core. https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/zqsbjd/thoughts_on_a_mini_target_or_walmartretail_like/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf 3E84DA8F-C...

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