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In-situ renderings of Target dwarfing LA Fitness.

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And a renovated Kroger!

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Good points. Plus, no other city has the supply of empty or near-empty office buildings that downtown Dallas has. Imagine that colossal failure to fill office buildings resulting in Downtown Dallas becoming the top market for downtown living in the southwest. Also, can we assume that the recent upt...

Construction fence installed this morning around the Target Wynnewood site. I thought this wasn't starting for several months, and that may still be the case, but I don't understand the point of this unless construction were imminent.

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More apartments in the works for landmark downtown Dallas skyscraper https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2023/05/10/more-apartments-in-the-works-for-landmark-downtown-dallas-skyscraper/ Looks like this is just the 8-story mid-rise section, which is still great news. Nice complement to 2...

Anybody else remember the last plans to convert this building to residential about 20 years ago? There were renderings out there of an altered facade (I wanna say some kind of brown mesh cladding). Glad these plans keep the MCM look, but I worry that recession fears will put this on pause once again...

Centurion is selling the Cabana and the old Braniff building. Dallas’ landmark Cabana Hotel hits the market https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2023/05/08/dallas-landmark-cabana-hotel-hits-the-market/ We knew this was coming, sadly. Somewhat encouraging is this part saying they're under...

Developers plan retail and residential tower near Deep Ellum rail station https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2023/04/18/developers-plan-retail-and-residential-tower-near-deep-ellum-rail-station/ The proposed tower would be constructed adjacent to the Deep Ellum DART rail station at Goo...

Dallas begins building The Loop’s Hi Line Connector trail despite contractor’s lawsuit https://www.dallasnews.com/news/commentary/2023/04/17/dallas-begins-building-the-loops-hi-line-connector-despite-contractors-ongoing-lawsuit/ With no fanfare or groundbreaking photo op, construction has begun on ...

Dallas City Leaders Planning to Build Skatepark in Oak Cliff https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-city-leaders-planning-to-build-skatepark-in-oak-cliff/3172912/ This news is a few months old, but I'm not seeing a thread for it, and it's a big deal as it would be only the 2nd skate park in the C...

I would think this would do well here. Glad to see it. I think it will do well too https://therealdeal.com/texas/2023/03/02/brixmor-brings-target-to-southern-dallas/ Brixmor Property Group, a publicly traded REIT, bought the 1940s-era shopping center about 15 years ago. In 2018, citing research ind...

Is oak cliff still dry? Beer and wine since 2012. Liquor stores are still prohibited and it may take a Texas constitutional amendment to allow them. However, since the city of Cockrell Hill began to allow liquor stores several years ago, you don’t need to cross the river for a handle of Tito’s anym...

Oak Cliff apartment project will bring affordable units https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2023/02/28/oak-cliff-apartment-project-will-bring-affordable-units/ Picture1.jpg Builders have broken ground on a project that’s expected to set the tone for development in a North Oak Cliff dist...

The Perot Museum is planning to convert its 4 acre parking lot into a park. It’ll connect to the new Goldman Sachs campus park as well. Article is from a few months ago. Maybe the concerns about it being insular is less…? (Not sure if this article was shared already) https://www.costar.com/article/...

Tivo_Kenevil wrote:Hoque Global is a joke.

For what it’s worth, they seem to be moving dirt on SoGood. So, not a complete joke I guess.

Even if work came to a screeching halt at Red Bird, I'd still be shocked that this happened in Southern Dallas while Midtown looks like a scene from The Last of Us.

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Historic Dallas Braniff building hits the market again https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2023/02/20/historic-dallas-braniff-building-is-up-for-grabs/?fbclid=IwAR1fbESvKqqoH_jGtvir1Apa5cAMl4eFvDiaWrQpB5z3E8TJ0-QEhzMx7Ec Davidson Bogel Real Estate’s Jake Milner said potential buyers are...

Dallas’ landmark Comerica Bank Tower may soon see apartments, hotel, retail stores A luxury hotel and residential units are expected to replace offices on 20 of the 60-story high-rise’s floors, bringing new life to an overlooked block of Main Street. https://archive.ph/2023.02.03-135852/https://www...

Another tower on the way in Dallas’ Design District Developer Urby starts second high-rise near Stemmons Freeway. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2023/01/31/another-tower-on-the-way-in-dallas-design-district/ Construction has kicked off on the second building in a two-tower apartmen...

Demolition of the Pilgrim's Pride property from today.

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Does anyone know what is planned for the lot at Singleton and Herbert currently being demolished (across from Trinity Groves)? It has had a fenced off warehouse looking structure that is surrounded by apartments. This stuff was much easier to figure out before someone at DCAD clicked on a phishing ...

Work on this one started at some point in the last few months. Currently in in the drilling/excavation phase. I think the site was cleared in October and I see they're just barely starting to get some depth. Based on the renderings of the streetcar plaza expansion that surfaced in April, it looks l...

Shade structure (I think) and a couple of mammoths taking shape.

Driving by the other night was the first time I got to see this site since the tear-down and it was surreal to see the lit-up Victory/AT&T Plaza from Woodall Rodgers. It really seems to bring Victory Park "closer" to downtown visually, at least, and I hope this sense isn't lost when th...

Pretty sure the other news story here is The Rustic is moving from West Village due to something developing in the existing lot. It's too close to the WV location for anything other than relocation.

Theluistorres wrote:So are they just moving the one in the Renaissance tower into the national?

Correct. Past the paywall, it says the one in the food court is closing.

Called Ablon @ Cedar Springs , the apartment towers are to include more than 400 residential units. The tallest of the high-rises is planned at 20 floors, with retail on the lower floors facing a new public plaza along Throckmorton Street. So the two towers have the same name? I'm guessing based on...

At this point, Mathews Southwest should just sell the land to Dallas County so they can move Lew Sterret and Frank Crowley here.

Work set to begin next year on Oak Lawn redevelopment https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2022/10/04/work-set-to-begin-next-year-on-oak-lawn-redevelopment/ Picture1.jpg PegasusAblon last year obtained zoning to construct the residential towers behind the retail strip along Cedar Springs Avenue at T...

$10.5 M for ‘homeowner stabilization’ part of deck park tax-district expansion https://oakcliff.advocatemag.com/2022/10/oak-cliff-gateway-tif-expansion/ What an interesting way to spin this story which, to be honest, I'm not 100% sure what it means. I get the reason for the TIF expansion, which is ...

Yep, those renderings were in the DMN as well. That’s why I feel the way I feel about it. Nothing memorable whatsoever…maybe we’ll be surprised by the ground level? It lowkey reminds me of the Plaza of the Americas office buildings — dark colored glass boxes. That's exactly what it looks like. Good...

Can't imagine the addition will be anything other than a 30-foot cover for their car port and entrance, but how cool would it be if they added a rooftop deck where you could see downtown from Pegasus' point of view.

This is the same article announcing the Mill Creek building downtown, but I thought this part was interesting for the building u/c on Beckley. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2022/09/16/builder-starting-downtown-dallas-tower-and-rentals-near-white-rock-lake/ Mill Creek is already dev...

Has anybody been to TG lately? I have been a few times in the past few months and it's striking how dead the place continues to be. I think Beto & Son does well but overall it seems a shadow of it's pre-pandemic self. I find the wooden fence along Singleton to be very off putting. I can no long...

moderapaul.JPG (DMN / WDG Architecture) " Builder starting downtown Dallas tower and rentals near White Rock Lake " And the developer plans to break ground in the coming weeks on a downtown Dallas apartment high-rise and a retail and rental community near White Rock Lake. - Dallas Morning...

This is the equivalent of the big observation wheel on Riverfront finally getting built as one of those portable ferris wheels you see at the fair. That said, as long as the money raised is what this project really costs then go ahead and build it. We need more public-access greenspace and this can ...

Long Awaited Dallas Riverfront Project Under Construction
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No breaking news here, just the ribbon cutting and usual pats on the back.

I share the disappointment in not seeing the deck laid out for Phase 2, but I also believe in not making perfect the enemy of the good. People forget that Klyde Warren Park was originally proposed as a set of wide sidewalks on St. Paul, Harwood and Olive, and that once the project started it almost ...

Perhaps just build a college there. Maybe call it The Center but in another language. Funny, and a bit off-topic here, but despite Spanish being my first language I never knew that "Centro" means "Downtown" until I moved to Dallas. Guess that makes sense when you grow up in a ci...

"The Evolution of the Gay Bar" sounds like a great thesis paper and maybe even deserves its own thread, but I'm actually not entirely against keeping some things as they are. Kudos to Round-Up for actually looking not too different from what it did 20 years ago while still attracting crowd...

I posted this story in the Parks thread, but it really belongs here under Development. 25 acres is A LOT of land, and the fact that plans include a combination of new construction and adaptive re-use is a good sign. But yeah, to think the Bishop Arts District will ever expand this far to the east is...

Property investors are circling Oak Cliff’s new deck park https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2022/08/10/property-investors-are-circling-oak-cliffs-new-deck-park/ Several apartment buildings next to the deck park along South Lancaster Avenue were just purchased by investor Hudson Henley...

DBadger wrote:Wow. Steve Brown Circa 1980...

Back when he probably liked his job.

The Deep Ellum Hostel permanently shut down a little over a week ago. Wasn't around very long. It's a bummer as we don't have much else like it, so we're back to the hostel in Irving being the only hostel around town. I'd be curious to see if a hostel in an area like Bishop Arts would fare better. ...

Tnexster wrote:That park is larger than I imagined.

I have a feeling this will be my favorite of the 2017 bond program parks with the way it's surrounded by historic buildings and even preserves the one building for a multi-use rec space.

I agree with most of this, and if you consider Mathews Southwest a Canadian developer then it's hard to argue that these out-of-towners don't end up doing more to transform the skyline than the local developers. Then again it was another Canadian firm, Cadillac Fairview, that did the most damage to ...

Even though I don't like the AAC's design, I'd be game for preserving it. I think it's safe to say we can use Globe Life Field and Globe Life Park as a case study for this. A lot of people are complaining on social media about the design of GLF and feel nostalgic for the aesthetic of GLP. Even thou...

Didn't realize how far along this one is in construction. Looks like it could be ready by the fall.

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If so, they weren't in there long after it was built-- Placid went bankrupto in the wake of the 1980s oil mess. So Placid went flaccid? Sorry, should've started with "dad joke alert". Todd Interests did a great job keeping Greyhound Bus and signing HKS when they renovated One Dallas Cente...

scott2 wrote:I just noticed the cost figure as $100,00,00.00 ! Is that not a lot for a non high rise development.

It's almost a half million sq ft and looks like 2 separate mid-rises. Considering the recent rise in costs, that figure looks about right to me.

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