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- 25 Sep 2023 10:48
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~424 FT | ~30 ST)
- Replies: 238
- Views: 109248
Re: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~30 ST)
I think a big part of this 'migration' is purely the age and quality of the buildings. A 50 year old building would not be able to compete with a brand new building. It is still almost the same or adjacent neighborhoods. Its a freaking 5 minute walk. I am happy that the migration is a couple of min...
- 25 Sep 2023 10:22
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas College: El Centro relocation
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17045
Re: Dallas College: El Centro relocation
San Antonio legislators have frequently discussed (over the past decades) introducing a state amendment to allow their city government to consolidate with that of Bexar County to eliminate duplicated departmental capacities for cost reduction purposes. More than 70% of county citizens already reside...
- 25 Sep 2023 10:04
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas College: El Centro relocation
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17045
Re: El Centro relocation
Dallas’ 7 Community Colleges Plan to Become 1 Nothing new here in terms of the lawsuit keeping DCCD from building its new campus, but it seems like the wheels are turning in the effort to merge the seven schools into one. ...There's also the question of what will happen to the current El Centro cam...
- 23 Sep 2023 17:24
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas College: El Centro relocation
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17045
Re: Dallas College: El Centro relocation
Maybe even a sixth one from Venezuela or Colombia
- 23 Sep 2023 14:22
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas College: El Centro relocation
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17045
Re: Dallas College: El Centro relocation
Good point about feasibility assessments. When our emeritus member forumer grantboston was attending Tufts I always wondered whether North Texas could fund ourselves a new inner city campus of that august institution, or of Johns Hopkins, or Sewanee, or GWU, or maybe a private West Coast one like th...
- 23 Sep 2023 14:20
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas College: El Centro relocation
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17045
Re: Dallas College: El Centro relocation
I didn't know that; I just assumed that SCAD Atlanta was the urban presence SCAD sought to have. Interesting.
- 23 Sep 2023 11:48
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas College: El Centro relocation
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17045
Re: Dallas College: El Centro relocation
DISD should move hermit-crablike into the Kay Bailey Hutchison building when I get the new convention center built on Central at Park Lane
- 22 Sep 2023 15:25
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~424 FT | ~30 ST)
- Replies: 238
- Views: 109248
Re: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~30 ST)
You don't put your pants on one leg at a time because you're strictly a man of the modren muumuu?
- 22 Sep 2023 14:55
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~424 FT | ~30 ST)
- Replies: 238
- Views: 109248
Re: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~30 ST)
And on the issue of making it a hotel, how many hotels can downtown realistically sustain? There is nothing attractive about that area Just to clarify, that was alluding to using subsidies again to build a second NorthPark convention center Omni, part of my spitballing in which I treated the first ...
- 22 Sep 2023 11:38
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~424 FT | ~30 ST)
- Replies: 238
- Views: 109248
Re: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~30 ST)
And Tucy, don't forget you're not the only guy who thinks logically around here, and the rest of us still exercise meekness in respecting people as well as factual reality. It's not a contradiction to think both are harmonizable, it's more a matter of what motivates playing in the first place. And d...
- 22 Sep 2023 11:36
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~424 FT | ~30 ST)
- Replies: 238
- Views: 109248
Re: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~30 ST)
Let the big wedge from East Quarter to Union Station to SoGood regear as the downtown residential living space for people wanting to get a place downtown. The Dallas Fed is no longer in our historic financial district, so why do we wish for financiers to stay put there? We certainly have a new finan...
- 22 Sep 2023 01:08
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
- Replies: 519
- Views: 431090
Re: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Thanks Ron!
- 20 Sep 2023 22:11
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Turtle Creek: Validus - Hood @Brown (370 FT | ~30 ST)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5763
Oak Lawn: Validus (29ST apartment)
https://www.validuscorp.com/projects GFF architects 29 floors residential, 4 units per floor, 370' approved by FAA Underground garage parking Very close to GFF and Fifield's 3515 Brown Street (as well as to Hanover's twin towers at 2525 Turtle Creek, and the possible 3601 Turtle Creek project and Fo...
- 20 Sep 2023 21:45
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~424 FT | ~30 ST)
- Replies: 238
- Views: 109248
Re: KDC & Miyama Project - 30 ST
This stinks bad for downtown, it just keeps getting worse. This will now last much longer before anything is ever constructed of any significance. Easy there buddy, don't get despondent, you know... Somehow the AMLI tower is still under construction and this new project is completed in the renderin...
- 20 Sep 2023 01:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 92295
- 19 Sep 2023 10:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 92295
Re: DTD: BoredThread-Frisco/Traffic/FairPark/ATTStadium/Policy/CorpRelocations/AnythingButNotTallEnoughFieldStreetDistri
Would she like to buy an underground bridge? I know a guy got a nice second hand D2
- 15 Sep 2023 15:04
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 92295
Re: DTD: BoredThread-Frisco/Traffic/FairPark/ATTStadium/Policy/CorpRelocations/AnythingButNotTallEnoughFieldStreetDistri
FSD has asked the FAA to permit a 479' tower crane pt 2, from 04/01/2024 to 08/01/2027, and a 517' tower crane pt 3, with that same work schedule. I didn't look around for a pt 1, perhaps already determined. The application described these both as 18 month work schedules, so I also don't know what t...
- 15 Sep 2023 12:17
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Butler Brothers Building
- Replies: 106
- Views: 97065
Re: Downtown Dallas: Butler Brothers Building
I looked up Butler Brothers, which was an interesting national supply house with similarly large buildings in many cities. Some have been destroyed, like the one in the Chicago Loop, but a couple of the other survivors have been renovated or re-renovated lately: Dallas (1911/1960/2016) https://www.b...
- 13 Sep 2023 12:17
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas: Medical District
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147858
Re: Dallas: Medical District
It doesn't strike one as a fun or a relaxing park
And the through traffic still moats it
And the through traffic still moats it
- 12 Sep 2023 17:06
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Convention Center
- Replies: 208
- Views: 89833
Re: Dallas Convention Center
And 7 more on DBJ at that link
- 11 Sep 2023 11:26
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 804
- Views: 361611
Re: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
It's pretty much impossible to find where someone posted an idea unless you use the search function or keep the catch-all discussions in Opolis Blueprints.
- 10 Sep 2023 19:27
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 804
- Views: 361611
Re: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
The city needs to do something dramatic Downtown to bring an energy back. Frankly, they need something iconic to draw interest. I know this sounds off the wall, but I've imagined a huge statue, and by that, I mean a 10 to 15 story statue of Pegasus that would also include aspects like climbing into...
- 09 Sep 2023 08:31
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Turtle Creek: Four Seasons Hotel & Residences (3001 Turtle Creek)
- Replies: 191
- Views: 69387
Re: Turtle Creek: Four Seasons Hotel & Residences (3001 Turtle Creek)
Just a comp or point of comparison from the core of Atlanta, where spec office is no longer moving forward but experiential/hospitality is
https://www.bisnow.com/atlanta/news/off ... now-120534
https://www.bisnow.com/atlanta/news/off ... now-120534
- 08 Sep 2023 12:10
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: 2500 Cedar Springs (3 Towers)
- Replies: 109
- Views: 48957
Re: Uptown Dallas: 2500 Cedar Springs (3 Towers)
Thanks as well
- 08 Sep 2023 01:31
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: 2500 Cedar Springs (3 Towers)
- Replies: 109
- Views: 48957
Re: Uptown Dallas: 2500 Cedar Springs (3 Towers)
Any recommendations from 8/17 CPC?
- 08 Sep 2023 00:23
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Mockingbird Station
- Replies: 165
- Views: 127868
Re: Dallas Mockingbird Station
There's been some "rightsizing" on these parking garage elevators. Five months of operation per calendar year sound optimal? Durable, high capacity ramps are provided.
- 08 Sep 2023 00:22
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Mockingbird Station
- Replies: 165
- Views: 127868
Re: Dallas Mockingbird Station
Must have been that one of those historic and influential urban professionals wrote something about, like, owning a shopping center and having a part in its deferred quality control as the highest priority and second highest duty of a citizen
- 08 Sep 2023 00:17
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Mockingbird Station
- Replies: 165
- Views: 127868
Re: Dallas Mockingbird Station
Oh well why didn't you just say so then? ;-(
- 06 Sep 2023 12:35
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Overall Construction Levels
- Replies: 35
- Views: 32626
Re: Overall Construction Levels
Alternatively the State could just sell 30-year ground leases to whatever it vacates around Austin and then have the option to scrape and resell the properties, or rehab them, in thirty years, too
- 06 Sep 2023 09:22
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Overall Construction Levels
- Replies: 35
- Views: 32626
Re: Overall Construction Levels
I assume it's paywalled so I haven't read the article or weighed the points in it. Commercial office inventories may still be eventually converted to governmental office buildings if the price is lower than expected for space elsewhere in the jurisdiction of whatever level of government may be looki...
- 05 Sep 2023 11:38
- Forum: Opolis Blueprints
- Topic: If-only / What-if .....
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16990
Re: If-only / What-if .....
And a slip'n'slide lane for the especially unwashed whom the joggers kick out.
- 05 Sep 2023 11:31
- Forum: Opolis Blueprints
- Topic: If-only / What-if .....
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16990
Re: If-only / What-if .....
Thanks Mike! So... instead of a toll tunnel running from NCX to Love Field we will just build a more elegant, cheaper and non-tolled hike and bike tunnel running from NCX to Inwood beneath Mockingbird Lane and we'll call it a day
- 04 Sep 2023 23:11
- Forum: Opolis Blueprints
- Topic: If-only / What-if .....
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16990
- 04 Sep 2023 22:57
- Forum: Opolis Blueprints
- Topic: If-only / What-if .....
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16990
Re: Westmoreland Industrial District
There's an industrial district (about 155 acres) just south of the Westmoreland DART Station that should be master-planned for a massive mixed-use TOD. One thing that's really unique about the site are the old railroad rights of way that could be turned into trails, especially since west of Westmor...
- 31 Aug 2023 20:57
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood District: Bleu Ciel (390 FT / 33 ST)
- Replies: 308
- Views: 263745
Re: Harwood District: Bleu Ciel (390 FT / 33 ST)
My impression is that the monthly hassle and costs of homeownership are higher in many of those other cities where condo HOA assessments and prices are more competitive as a result. But additionally we don't have major snow and ice or hurricane storm surges for older adults to periodically deal with...
- 30 Aug 2023 10:18
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
- Replies: 767
- Views: 540172
Re: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
Updates to eburress' handy timeline: 2024? (Dallas) Frontier Communications? 2024? (Unknown?) Airborne Motorworks? 2023 (Dallas) Thermomix 2023 (Plano) Westwood Professional Services 2023 (Allen) Inbenta https://finovate.com/customer-experience-specialist-inbenta-acquires-digital-adoption-platform-h...
- 30 Aug 2023 09:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 92295
Re: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
Of the following in the past quarter-century I think ours is the blandest or most generically creative but probably the least ugly. Others go more CREATIVE but it's not as successfully done. Also may I add that no league needs this many new arenas? (Charlotte 1996 DC 1997 Baltimore 1998 Tampa 1998) ...
- 30 Aug 2023 09:08
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
- Replies: 767
- Views: 540172
Re: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
Eburress posted a relocations list in a different forum recently:
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viewtopic.php?f=2&t=807&p=47716&hilit=Landsea#p47710
- 29 Aug 2023 10:26
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Arlington Development and Transportation Projects
- Replies: 128
- Views: 81857
Re: Arlington Development and Transportation Projects
'We're awake': Arlington, no longer a bedroom community, is aiming to create its own skyline https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2022/09/29/arlington-jim-ross-skyline.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_7&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s “We have plans to build well over 2 million square feet of cl...
- 29 Aug 2023 09:57
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 92295
Re: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
We also don't know that Jones' plans themselves wouldn't have ended up being the major Dallas whiff we talk about. He wanted to build, but where he did get the public money to do so, the new showplace stadium sat for years and years with no name, holding out for more sponsors' money. Despite constan...
- 25 Aug 2023 19:41
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
- Replies: 767
- Views: 540172
Re: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
DBJ has recently reported some more: SoCal startup Thermomix kitchen appliances https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2023/08/25/thermomix-heaquarters-relocation-dallas-california.html Which I looked up: "Thermomix's parent company, German-based Vorwerk, now in its 140th year of operation, re...
- 23 Aug 2023 12:39
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Cityplace East: 2711 N. Haskell
- Replies: 87
- Views: 52096
Re: Cityplace East: 2711 N. Haskell
What will those cool stacked sky lobby atria be used for I wonder
- 22 Aug 2023 04:30
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
- Replies: 767
- Views: 540172
Re: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news ... worth.html
McMaster-Carr industrial parts house Fort Worth regional HQ "expansion would create 250 jobs with an average annual salary of $85,000."
McMaster-Carr industrial parts house Fort Worth regional HQ "expansion would create 250 jobs with an average annual salary of $85,000."
- 21 Aug 2023 16:10
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 92295
Re: Downtown Dallas: Field Street District
CTroyMathis wrote:Although, I bet we could come up with something funnier for the acronym.
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- 21 Aug 2023 13:53
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
- Replies: 417
- Views: 423977
- 21 Aug 2023 11:11
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 92295
Re: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
Good constructive comments. Would be happy to discuss if you care to DM me. Deep Ellum, Exposition Park and Fair Park could be very livable. They'll be a neat, neat railroad and streetcar urban heirloom with a significant collective future, but, like other onetime past and present development hotspo...
- 18 Aug 2023 22:54
- Forum: Texas Urban/Suburban/Exurban Development
- Topic: San Antonio Development
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5354
Re: San Antonio Development
Friday Night Nightlights
- 18 Aug 2023 20:51
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Cityplace West/West Village: Residential Tower (~250 FT / 23 ST) / Hilton Canopy (8 ST)
- Replies: 89
- Views: 84914
Re: Cityplace West/West Village: Residential Tower (~250 FT / 23 ST) / Hilton Canopy (8 ST)
US-Living in February 2022 per dallascad bought 3700 McKinney except for the 37,000 square foot retail strip and 94,000 square foot parking, which are separately assessed at 19.9 million.
- 15 Aug 2023 21:24
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
- Replies: 767
- Views: 540172
Re: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
If I'm not mistaken the city just has to ask the state to refund the state's cut of something. I don't know if the city has a quota of how many asks we have to use. Bloomberg says that Frontier Communications emerged from bankruptcy in 2021 and that their current CEO lives in Dallas, but the 1919 Mc...
- 15 Aug 2023 21:12
- Forum: Texas Urban/Suburban/Exurban Development
- Topic: San Antonio Development
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5354
Re: San Antonio Development
Would that the same sentiments made it into the mien of the building itself... nothing romantic on yon taupe flattop drabslab