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^ Bingo.

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Now, I finally have everything exactly has they want and they have told me it will go on a bond list for 2023. Our neighborhood that has no sidewalk will not get a sidewalk until 2023! You are overly optimistic. Being on the bond list is just the first hurdle. Consider it a wish list. The city coun...

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sterling wrote:Does Dallas ever have anyone in "Parks" who's not interim? Must be a terrible "going nowhere" position.

He's filling in for Willis Winters who just retired after 7 years in the position, and 20+ years with the department.

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^ Well said. One clarification, though... Because Woodall is designed to be the connection between Central and Lower/Lowest Stemmons in the first place, they are adding collector lanes to keep you from having to merge onto Stemmons to get to the Tollway and vice versa. My understanding is that you'l...

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The city is notoriously glacial when it comes to selling property it's not using. Imagine how long it would take them to sell something they do use? https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/11/22/city-hall-bought-valuable-north-dallas-land-for-a-library-that-won-t-be-built-now-the-city-wan...

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I don't think this postcard has been posted before.

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^ Not likely to happen. Congress changed the law a few years ago so it's not impossible, but the FHWA isn't fond of tolls on Interstates they already paid for. One thing that the D Magazine crowd doesn't like to discuss is that if TXDOT were to just remove the highway apparently we'd have to pay the...

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TXDOT has not built a single tunnel ever! All tunnels within the state have been built as Toll Roads. The best TXDOT has ever done is an open ditch that's been covered by a park mostly funded by somebody else. Why should I-345 be the first TXDOT funded tunnel? http://www.mywisewife.com/texas-big-be...

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Dragon_Lady wrote:Give me the original 100 plus story concept back in the day any day over that hot mess.

Where do people get the idea that a 100 story building could ever be built there? Zoning is irrelevant. The FAA gets the last word.

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I think the dichotomy comes from developers remembering the 1980s, and the most of the people on this site not.

It's a lot easier to dream big when it's not your dollars on the line.

Keep in mind that the Hall building that just opened is built on a foundation poured 35 years ago.

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^ A short comparison of farebox recovery ratios: https://metro.fandom.com/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio DART is an outlier on the low end at 13%. Keep in mind that is operating expenses only, not capital expenses. I've heard it said that the money DART gets from fares doesn't do much more than cover t...

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The Embarcadero Freeway was pretty much a glorified off ramp. It's traffic count was about 1/3 that of I-345. Removing it just meant dumping local traffic onto city streets a few blocks earlier. The local equivalent would be the Good-Latimer exit off of US-75 southbound.

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Take those kinds of surveys with a very large grain of salt. They tend to only look at larger employers and miss the smaller companies. A lot of the data comes from state agencies, which means there's a lack of standardization. There's not even a clear definition of what a tech job is. Some of these...

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I think that was an erroneously published schedule... or something. It seems they are back to 3x weekly. https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/287851/american-modifies-planned-dallasft-worth-tel-aviv-frequency-in-w20/?highlight=tel%20aviv Yup. I just popped in to post that and found you...

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Burying or depressing the freeway creates another obstacle to running a D2 subway through downtown.... Which would be a good thing. Spending $1.3 billion to add capacity -- but no new riders -- to a system with continually decreasing ridership is about as stupid as it gets. Tear it down and re-stit...

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Apparently the Tel Aviv route is starting off strong. It was originally scheduled for 3 flights/week. They haven't even started service yet and AA has already doubled it to 6 flights/week.

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https://news.gallup.com/poll/245249/ame ... untry.aspx

31% of people want to live in the 'burbs. 27% want to go rural.

Probably the folks who grew up watching Green Acres.

Big cities? It's up from just 8% in 2001, but still only 12% of people want to live the big city life.

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Deep Ellum is already in-filling with residential density and corporate campuses. The notion that I-345 is hampering in-fill of development has been turned on it's head the last couple of years. Very important connector highway for so many people. Getting rid of it would cripple Dallas and reduce q...

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The property is now closed and fenced/barricaded off.

The existing restaurants between this site and Crowdus are going to be hurting during construction. Some have been there 20-30 years. I doubt all of them will survive.

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One of the primary reasons Dallas has grown like it has over the past 150 years is its role as a transportation hub. First it was the railroads, then the highways and now the airports. The DFW area is a immense distribution hub and logistics center. Trade, both domestic and international, is what ma...

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muncien wrote:Plus, the odds on having a pile of human poo on your doorstep in the morning drop considerably...

Unless you live in Deep Ellum....

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Thymant wrote:So maybe they just sold it for the quick cash.

Bingo.

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Interesting that they're moving from urban-style HQ to Westlake. You think they'd save enough dollars by going from SF and could afford / want to move into Dallas urban core. I guess they already had a facility out in Westlake though... If you were escaping from the absolute hellhole that San Franc...

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^ Very well said, I45Tex. What a number of people on this forum forget is that Deep Ellum is a living, breathing neighborhood with hundreds of residents and small businesses. This isn't a game of Sim City, where if you screw something up you can hit DELETE and start over. We have to live with the co...

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^ Not if you live or work on Commerce. It's bad enough we've got put up with the DART rail.

Besides, the last I checked railed vehicles aren't good at getting around double-parked delivery trucks, Uber and Grubhub pick-ups, or beer bikes moving at 2 MPH.

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Might be time to review the myth of induced demand. TFIFY. Try to explain "induced demand" to an economist and watch them laugh in your face. It's just existing demand that gets satisfied. If you build a new hospital and people use it do you say the hospital induced people to get sick?

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Yea. Another 200,000 cars a day on those city streets would be SO much better.

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The city needs to put its foot down and say "Hell No" to closing all those streets around the Good Latimer station. It's bad enough that DART already replaced two grade-separated intersections with traffic signals, blocked off multiple streets including Swiss Avenue and Race Street, regula...

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That LED light band on it is too bright. Screws up the twilight and night shots of downtown from this angle.

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Ah.... Thanks.

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Google Earth has updated imagery for the dallas area again. The new imagery is from 9/7/19 according to the timestamps on the imagery. Nowhere near that recent in Deep Ellum. Images are from before the Case Building opened and before the previous buildings on the Novel Building site were demolished.

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Prior to the Texas OU fiasco I posted the numbers here. Unfortunately that post was lost in the site crash. But the bottom line was that if you dedicated every piece of rolling stock that DART owned at the time to serving that one event, filled every car to theoretical capacity, and ran them through...

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They finally got my friend's car out of the garage. Of course he already had to purchase a replacement.

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Lots of fun. Dynamite location. Hard to go wrong. The DMN critic gave it their first and only zero star review. I would comment about the food, except I never got any. I tried brunch there with my kid. They were out of iced tea for me and they tried substituting something else for my son's Dr Peppe...

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Is it too soon to propose a plan that would close Elm, Main and Commerce to most vehicular traffic in the evenings and get a French Quarter situation happening? Strategic parking, service vehicle access and improved pedestrian infrastructure could make the party atmosphere something that draws peop...

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exelone31 wrote:My question is, have we as a city now become "Bowling Central"?

No, that's Arlington.

https://www.bowlingmuseum.com/Visit/Hou ... Directions

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This line will surely make attending one of these events far more appealing. Getting into and out of Addison on event nights is dreadful. lol I take you didn't learn from the Texas-OU debacle. Big events are the things that rail transit are the absolute worst at. They just don't scale. Prepare to s...

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^ The Lizard Lounge owners have already purchased the It'll Do Club for their backup plan.

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Demand side is only half the equation. Look at the supply side. Developers are getting gun shy in the NY and CA markets because of the expansion of rent control. No one wants to get stuck owning a building where rents can't keep up with inflation. Historically rent control regulation has exempted ne...

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Yes, it's a strange place to find it but here's the plan: https://media.nbcnewyork.com/documents/ ... -PM-01.pdf

Interesting tidbit: The exit sign from eastbound 30 will say "North 345 / South 45"

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Re: Rainbow crosswalks

https://www.wired.com/story/pedestrian- ... rosswalks/

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^ The city has agreed to let the Salvation Army put a 20 acre homeless shelter on 35E at Regal Row. Redevelopment of the area just got pushed back by a generation.

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^Thanks for the insight. In your opinion, what is it that Deep Ellum lacks at this point? Based on your post, I really just think the only thing we need is more residential in and adjacent to Deep Ellum so it can become more of a self-sustaining neighborhood, rather than relying on commuter traffic...

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I don't want to be a downer (especially considering how happy I am that they actually even built retail for this project), but I am very curious as to how long it's going to take them to lease out the retail space. Their Bishop Arts location has just had empty retail sitting for months now. I think...

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How about some neighborhood services—dry cleaners, nails, salons, fitness club, bodega, sub shop, urgent care—DE has nearly none of the above. Dry cleaners: There's not much demand. Not many people in this neighborhood wear suits. Glo had a location on Commerce by Exposition Park, but it closed due...

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The development will also have 10,585 square feet of ground-floor retail, which is being leased up by Venture Commercial. No retail leases have yet been announced.

That retail is going to be be hard to lease. Miniscule pedestrian traffic.

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But who would want to pay Turtle Creek prices to live on Irving Avenue?

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^ It's funny how for years I was berated here for saying it was stupid to waste tens of millions of dollars on a park in a drainage ditch.

Just call me Cassandra.

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Q: What's the one thing Fort Worth has that Dallas doesn't?

A: A major city 30 miles away.

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Thanks for sharing. I'm also glad to see more condos become available in the area, even if they are 10 years away. Hopefully they will be more reasonably priced than the high-end condos we've seen being built lately. I would think that their parking variance being allowed in part due to the buildin...

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