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It seems like this mixture of international and domestic in the same space is something DFW will be able to accommodate easily considering they are planning further major changes at our older terminals. The new terminal they are discussing could integrate these things and move that project further a...

Personally, I was at HG Supply on Saturday for a birthday and had forgotten they close at midnight so while a few of my friends moved to the Libertine I went home to the gaybourhood bars for two reasons. One, it's a 1 min walk to my apartment and second, they have S4, where I can people watch from 2...

I also propose the city be regulated to actually fix sidewalks where a light pole, sign, etc intercepts ADA widths and prevents safe passage. Create a system for actually repairing missing sidewalks cause the current one isn't working. Also, provide a streamlined permitting/request process for bike ...

I will miss this bar it still was one of the most approachable bars on McKinney Ave. Everything else was so douche oriented this bar at least had some room to breath and had the local feel. I don't think the land would be big enough for a bigger development like Idle Rich is doing. It seems the only...

Now that's the kind of response back I like to read! Logical with just enough science to understand from a layman's point of view without any emotional outburst. And as far as my before it pops statement what I mean is getting in the perfect spot before rents jump and spaces are few but not be a lon...

To support ground floor retail, you either have to be in a dense area or be in a retail destination. This area is neither. I would argue traffic counts matter more than both of those elements. It is why most people are confused about retail in general because you can have a beautiful spot next to A...

There we go another brick in the wall.

If you want to pay 10$ to play on a pool table or ping pong then this is the place for you. Bowling will be 40$. If that doesn't bother you then it will be great. If you think paying that much for a pool table is crazy you have plenty of bars in town with an open pool table for a few quarters. https...

I still stand by my statement good design doesn't cost more. One of the keys to good design is that costs can be balanced just as much as a profit first project but then again we can debate this all day and still never convince each other. I just wish more of these developers had more on their mind ...

It's pretty contradictory to say that a) it doesn't cost anything more (either in materials cost or time) to deliver higher-quality construction/design, while b) developers are just doing this to make a quick buck. Either higher-quality doesn't cost more and developers are just stupid, or higher-qu...

That area is pretty sleepy it would be a welcome change if they can get any of it off the ground.

Now that Virgin is opening a hotel in Dallas does that signal a market for a potential Hard Rock? I ask because Virgin is a brand that markets differently than a Marriot or a Hilton. Was W Hotel that bellwether of more rock and roll brands coming to the market? How about the Lorenzo it certainly pla...

Good architecture does not require more money.

OMG, I am not going to read another article on this Amazon HQ until Amazon makes a press release. The press is just short of reading tea leaves and asking Ms. Cleo to predict the future. Next time they are going to hold a hamster race and label them by city and the winner must be the winning city!

Some of what Matthews has planned relies on what happens to the Live Oak exit ramp and the future Carpenter Park. Once the ramp is removed some street frontage will be better facing south towards a completed larger Carpenters Park.

Good Latimer Expy and Taylor Street. You can see they tore up the concrete almost a year ago when they started this project. Perfect. Thanks. I didn't even remember that location on the parks plan. Very cool, though... It's not part of the parks plan I last looked at either so that's news to me too...

The positive is they are building in the support structures for both mixed-use towers and plan to lease up retail space along the bottom. Much better than what some developers are doing Downtown. Do I wish they would put more of the parking underground, yep totally. This doesn't seem like the worst ...

Good Latimer Expy and Taylor Street. You can see they tore up the concrete almost a year ago when they started this project.

Since that plot I belive is owned by the Landmark Building ownership it would have to be something with them. Previous ownership has tried to expand the Landmark Building so I wouldn't put it past them to try again and most likely build some sort of parking garage as part of the project. Lord knows ...

Last I heard the party is back in Deep Ellum but it's not the party that everyone wants to see. Sounds like things are getting too boozy and is only upstaged by McKinney Ave venues some nights. The residential can help create a balance but we will see cause McKinney Ave is fighting its own battles o...

Believe me in Planning classes in College we talked about gentrification and how do you balance all the parts of it and still deal with exterior players that have their own goals for redevelopment.

Great news! I wonder if they signed a lease at one of these spaces they've been working on next to Top Ten Records. Screen Shot 2018-02-08 at 4.48.31 PM.jpg Sadly that redesign looks a little whitewashed to me. The thing I don't look forward to is the overly sterilizing of the neighborhood and this...

Also, Union is a church effort to provide a safe space for the arts and local groups to meet. Which I think is a great opportunity for the neighborhood. Union also usually hosted life music shows that appeared well attended by the intended audiences. Also, the quiet nature of Union's old location wa...

It's interesting we are getting both when there is a drive-thru Starbucks looming. Just more proof that the area is changing as development replaces aging residential from Oak Lawn north towards the medical district/Love Field.

I get that they want to pretend that elevated walkway would be our High-line but that was a repurposed elevated railway through the dense walkable cityscape of New York. This would be a purpose-built highway ramp/overpass aka elevated trail. The beauty of the High Line is that it was recycled infras...

Union Coffee shop was previously located near SMU on the east side of 75. Looks like they are moving it to Oak Lawn.

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The Amazon HQ2 Victory Park proposal includes the North End Apartments and includes multiple landowners Hillwood being one of them. We need to simply look at that article from the Dallas Morning News with the map of the Victory proposal. The article had each landowner listed on the map since the Vic...

Currently, they have this in the building next to Klyde Warren. I imagine that buildings owner is ready to lease that space out to a restaurant with direct access to the park so the Dallas Center for Architecture is moving to a new location. The space in Republic Tower they are moving to is tricky c...

Btw as I rode the bus by the building this morning a crew was setting up show around the tower. They appear to be ready to work on whatever the final tower function will be. They were unloading parts off a truck could have been scaffoldings based on the parts I saw coming off the truck.

Looks like backlit art not screens to me.

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Come on they used Austin because of its a cool city for their target market for the Alexa product. Amazon is not weaving some elaborate DaVinci Code here. They will announce news when they are ready to.

The aqua neon pyramid that tops the Centrum clocktower was removed.... sad. Maybe it's being repaired? I hope the aqua neon stays. They sanitized the rest of the design and that was the only thing with character left. Oak Lawn won't feel the same without the clocktower. Its funny I hated the pyrami...

Yeah, it was more or less HEB admitting they own land they bought from the developer and have no details on what they will open or when. Everything else seems to be assumptions which, to be honest, are quite logical with the given information. Unless HEB is planning another store concept I imagine t...

Cowboyeagle - you should shop Dallas Galleria as they rarely have any new stores or existing stores that move to new locations. That is one of the reasons why NorthPark is one of the best shopping centers in the US, is they are always bringing in cool unique stores that usually are exclusive to Nor...

The new entity they seem to be working with on the project is Art Space. http://www.artspace.org/ Artspace is non-profit organization that uses the tools of real estate development to create affordable, appropriate places where artists can live and work. We consistently develop these projects in way...

Better sidewalks would improve business on the strip, that may require better parking on the side streets, but wider sidewalks in front of the busiest establishments seems pretty understandable. All things you can do without majorly disturbing the daily operations of business and commerce. Just cre...

This rendering was probably produced by the current owners so they could market the property to new buyers as a future development site. They may have been trying to sell it already without this and had no buyers who saw enough value with the current building. So instead you pay a firm like Merriman...

I'm not talking about Lower Greenville. Angela Hunt was representing the developers here on Oak Lawn Ave regarding the drive thru Starbucks and the Parking Lot/Wine Store at the Oak Lawn Committee. I believe she might also be tied to the attempted upzoning of the nearby residential areas? My point ...

This is an absolute must if we ever expect people to walk from the Strip to the Centrum. Screen Shot 2018-02-02 at 10.08.28 AM.jpg I can not imagine anyone would fight that project either. People already use the Centrum garage for parking and they dart across Oak Lawn and almost get hit all the tim...

They need to put a plan to do to Oak Lawn what they did to Greenville Avenue. I feel like with that type of pedestrian network, the whole area would just transform over night. That would be absolutely lovely but the city council and former city council member turned corporate shill Angela Hunt are ...

That man looks a little too overstretched he needs to contain himself damn. It's one thing to buy up land its another thing to plan so many projects at the same time. Not too many developers can handle that many projects at once. It takes a lot of smart and well-organized people to run that many tea...

I would hate to be the guy that has to update that map so much. Ordering the right amount of printed maps when you know next month so many things are changing.

Yeah, the intersection of Oak Lawn and Cedar Springs is one of the most dangerous ones to try to cross. Crosswalk signs exist but the city has not painted any markers back at all. And the wait for the lights to change is long so pedestrians end up running and darting across thinking it's not working...

I don't think it will be that dominate when you are actually are in Deep Ellum. I look forward to the potentially positive impact on the buildings across Elm that have been highly underutilized for decades now. I think the Case building does more negative things in terms of leering over the district...

Which I have complete confidence they will squander.

The city has no money for the park at this point. The 50 million recent grant would have to pay for the new designs to be drawn up. What we see is what feels like the billionth watercolor done of the Trinity and they are not construction ready designs they are fictions meant to distract and hopefull...

Part of that vision is already moving forward actually. The Water Gardens project down in the Cedars is moving ahead with NCTCOG money already. Matthews Southwest has been pushing that forward to make their land acquisitions along Riverfront Blvd a lot more desirable for things like an Amazon. Most...

I will tell you there is plenty of oppression happening. This is Texas and the countless gays I get introduced to who have been ostracized, kicked out and run away from home is very much high. Just cause we got gay marriage doesn't mean the game is over. The sheer number of a homeless gay youth is a...

Isn't there a plan to decommission and remove those jails? If I had to guess, those jails will be gone before anybody has to see them out of their nextdoor windows, which may say as much about this project's prospects as it does about the jail's longevity. Seriously, this. That damn jail needs to g...

joshua.dodd wrote:This is the property Mark Cuban owns, right?

It’s property he had the option of buying for the Mavs HQ and passed on it. He bought the land in the Design District instead.

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