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- 30 May 2017 08:22
- Forum: Art + Sol
- Topic: KAWS: Where the End Starts @ The Modern until 01/22/17
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13179
Re: KAWS: Where the End Starts @ The Modern until 01/22/17
I think KAWS is great!
- 29 May 2017 17:39
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Texas A&M expansion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 50422
Re: Deep Ellum: Texas A&M expansion
That's nice and everything, but I wont be satisfied until there's a medical school.
- 28 May 2017 10:44
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment (The Central)
- Replies: 476
- Views: 1222501
Re: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment
^I thought they just have some sort of 'first dibs' on the whole block...?
I think DART has an existing shaft from this corner to the subway station.... if this proposal does not organize the finishing of the subway station access, I want to be against the whole deal.
I think DART has an existing shaft from this corner to the subway station.... if this proposal does not organize the finishing of the subway station access, I want to be against the whole deal.
- 28 May 2017 09:31
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 415195
Re: DART D2 Subway
^thanks
Is there a solid reason why D2 wasn't proposed to spout from Union Station? why has it always started at Victory Park?
Is there a solid reason why D2 wasn't proposed to spout from Union Station? why has it always started at Victory Park?
- 27 May 2017 12:31
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: New Census Population Estimates
- Replies: 307
- Views: 293670
Re: New Census Population Estimates
The swaths, patches, clumps of dense urban living will be lessened and disjointed without a regional binding plan establishing growth barriers and managed wilderness areas infused into the population center.
- 26 May 2017 12:46
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: New Census Population Estimates
- Replies: 307
- Views: 293670
Re: New Census Population Estimates
Probably, a lot of Fort Worth growth falls under the suburban umbrella, rather than 'major city' urban density growth... or whatever terms we're using now-a-days. There's no reason to expect suburban growth will stop, and it's not as bad or unsustainable as some may paint it. Hopefully, though, &quo...
- 25 May 2017 10:45
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: New Census Population Estimates
- Replies: 307
- Views: 293670
Re: New Census Population Estimates
So nice to see the city population make such a big increase, maybe the ~decade long urban growth planning and subsequent ~half decade long implementation have settled the foundation for significant urban habitat improvements and growing quality and variety of life. The fantastic domestic appeal and ...
- 23 May 2017 22:29
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas - Fountain Place
- Replies: 119
- Views: 106749
Re: Downtown Dallas - Fountain Place
!!
I like that so much better than the twin tower deal floated for Harwood a while back....
I like that so much better than the twin tower deal floated for Harwood a while back....
- 23 May 2017 22:24
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Trinity Forest Golf Course
- Replies: 91
- Views: 94106
Re: Trinity Forest Golf Course
That was a fleeting mention, and I don't remember at all the brand or if a general location had been mentioned, but I do remember it. Also remember wondering if this hotel would have been anywhere near Wonderview (haha Mark Cuban 2010).... but I'm not feeling a hotel on the east side of the River, m...
- 22 May 2017 08:58
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 415195
Re: DART D2 Subway
The current three options are new(ish), only coming around in the last year or so, since the big dust-up about financing D2 and The Cotton Belt. Before that, there were six to eight options... a new Convention Center stop, Farmer's Market. These plans studied for a couple years, put in hibernation f...
- 21 May 2017 16:17
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: (PWC) Park District Tower (316 FT | 20 ST) + Residences at Park District (385 FT | 32 ST)
- Replies: 184
- Views: 191566
Re: Uptown Dallas: (PWC) Park District Tower (316 FT | 20 ST) + Residences at Park District (385 FT | 32 ST)
^sounds like a refreshing change. is it?
- 21 May 2017 16:15
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 415195
Re: DART D2 Subway
gotta be Commerce. I'm still a little confused why none of the routes studied in depth have simply been trashed.
- 20 May 2017 16:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood District: Bleu Ciel (390 FT / 33 ST)
- Replies: 315
- Views: 267120
Re: Harwood Int'l District: Bleu Ciel (390 FT / 33 ST)
that's a weird lookin clarinet
- 20 May 2017 11:21
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Trinity Forest Golf Course
- Replies: 91
- Views: 94106
Re: Trinity Forest Golf Course
^As far as I'm aware, one clubhouse is the only permanent building accommodating players and guests... http://myavidgolfer.com/features/update-trinity-forest/ Thoughts on Trinity Forest… Travis Measley / Apr. 1st, 2016 ...Construction on the 25,000-square-foot clubhouse is scheduled to begin shortly...
- 19 May 2017 11:37
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Trinity Forest Golf Course
- Replies: 91
- Views: 94106
Trinity Forest Golf Course
Glossy lauding prep piece for the 2018 AT&T Byron Nelson Championship Tournament. Overlooking all the flagrant missteps along the way to building the link course, this article focuses on the the potential to put Dallas back in the major leagues of PGA golf. http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news...
- 19 May 2017 10:21
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood District: Bleu Ciel (390 FT / 33 ST)
- Replies: 315
- Views: 267120
Re: Harwood Int'l District: Bleu Ciel (390 FT / 33 ST)
^Thanks. What about extending the trail along Harwood Street, to Klyde Warren Park?
- 18 May 2017 10:53
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Museum Tower
- Replies: 229
- Views: 229035
Museum Tower
After seven years, this beautiful condo tower is almost 75% sold. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/05/17/downtown-dallas-museum-tower-condos-three-quarters-sold Downtown Dallas' Museum Tower condos are three-quarters sold Written by Steve Brown, Real Estate Editor ...Opened in 20...
- 18 May 2017 07:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Parking Garages
- Replies: 140
- Views: 120835
Re: Parking Garages
Not hard to imagine any parking garages rendered excess by consumer behavior could become repair and storage facilities for this new class of fleet vehicle, especially in downtown where office worker and residential population is more highly concentrated. Along that line, DART commuter rail stations...
- 17 May 2017 12:23
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Las Colinas/North Irving Development
- Replies: 1519
- Views: 1354440
Re: Las Colinas/North Irving Development
^ ^^ Totally! This deal felt like it to took longer than the Stone Hedge deal in the Arts District to happen... and now the cranes are already coming down. The more 'things' there are to form connection and create trips within/between Las Colinas, UTSW/Parkland Medical and Downtown Dallas the more t...
- 17 May 2017 09:44
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: DFW Economy
- Replies: 462
- Views: 435420
Re: DFW Economy
The New North Dallas...? there's a map of that somewhere from some article.... Wedge SaLLaD.... Three generations ago, "The Metroplex" was the dual-city branding used for Dallas-Fort Worth. Dallas satellite city lead growth ousts Fort Worth from the branding partnership, today, giving us T...
- 17 May 2017 09:35
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Parking Garages
- Replies: 140
- Views: 120835
Re: Parking Garages
The city has an obligation to the neighborhood and the rest of the city, improving quality and variety of life one cornerstone. Updated/expanded parking for the giant office towers is clearly a trend the city must support but that support must not be time-sensitive. Build the garages by all means al...
- 17 May 2017 09:20
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Oak Lawn
- Replies: 810
- Views: 1351063
Re: Oak Lawn
Tailored crosswalks are great, especially if they lead to new sidewalks. Oak Lawn Avenue should be one of the city's Premier, World-Class, New Millenial, NewUrbanistMixedUse, Starcitect, Complete Streeted.... pedestrian-resident oriented thoroughfare, from the fountain at Preston Road to the Trinity...
- 12 May 2017 11:51
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: DFW Economy
- Replies: 462
- Views: 435420
Re: DFW Economy
Long term economic growth and stability, highest quality & variety of life and the emergence of local culture and social scene among the primary nodes and guiding influences of American Society are reflective of the extent to which the natural environment is incorporated the built environment. F...
- 10 May 2017 10:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1024
- Views: 793848
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
DMN Wilonsky had an article about reviving the effort to renovating Commerce for local usage instead of commuter usage. One plan even included actual bike lanes.
- 10 May 2017 10:48
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
- Replies: 556
- Views: 471589
Re: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
The I-35 corridor already has a once a day Amtrak train with poor ridership. Maybe it will perform better with much higher speeds, maybe not? But the existing subsidized Amtrak train service will be competition to a new privately ran high speed rail service. Few private companies like to compete ag...
- 10 May 2017 07:54
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
- Replies: 556
- Views: 471589
Re: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
DFW Core Express
HSR co-op between Fort Worth and Dallas taking a municipal step to fund a $15 million environmental impact study.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local ... 94864.html
HSR co-op between Fort Worth and Dallas taking a municipal step to fund a $15 million environmental impact study.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local ... 94864.html
- 09 May 2017 11:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas - Fountain Place
- Replies: 119
- Views: 106749
Re: Downtown Dallas - Fountain Place
Tivo_Kenevil wrote:^Hopefully the nub turns out to be another residential building.
!!!!
That would be sweet for sure
- 09 May 2017 11:46
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Flower Mound: Riverwalk at Central Park
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9288
Re: Flower Mound: Riverwalk at Central Park
Flower Mound and more so Roanoke are in a sweet spot, would be such a shame if decision makers let traffic ruin it.
- 08 May 2017 18:36
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Texas Live!
- Replies: 73
- Views: 71672
Re: Texas Live!
Lowes is a good brand
- 08 May 2017 14:40
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: AMLI Fountain Place (562 FT / 46 ST)
- Replies: 789
- Views: 817736
Re: Downtown Dallas: AMLI Fountain Place (562 FT / 46 ST)
...why not go ahead an build the mirror?
- 08 May 2017 13:46
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas - Fountain Place
- Replies: 119
- Views: 106749
Re: Downtown Dallas - Fountain Place
So, I guess we have to wait 'until the next cycle' for the entertainment-or-whatever nub....
- 08 May 2017 10:23
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Southern Gateway Public Green
- Replies: 50
- Views: 45762
Re: Oak Cliff Deck Park
A better use of the $50 million gift to Dallas Parks & Recreation from the Sammons Foundation goes to this project rather than the a condition of the Trinity Tollroad through the Trinity River Park...
- 08 May 2017 10:17
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Statler Hotel & Residences + Future DMN Offices (Old Statler Hilton + Old Library)
- Replies: 441
- Views: 378941
Re: Downtown Dallas: Statler Hotel & Residences + Future DMN Offices (Old Statler Hilton + Old Library)
Shouldn't there be a florist, baker, organic macrobiotic Chinese take-out, mail center or dry cleaner right next to the resident entry? Considering there's as many or more people living directly across the street, Jackson Street should be packed with retail for mundane residential & pantry needs...
- 07 May 2017 16:18
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Trinity River Park
- Replies: 468
- Views: 459868
Re: Trinity River Park
So, did the city council election tip the balance in favor of the park instead of tollroad?
- 05 May 2017 09:31
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Southern Gateway Public Green
- Replies: 50
- Views: 45762
Southern Gateway Public Green
http://oakcliff.advocatemag.com/2017/04/oak-cliff-deck-park-social-economic-breakthrough-or-unnecessary-expense/ April 26, 2017 Oak Cliff deck park: Social and economic breakthrough or unnecessary expense? Written By Rachel Stone People on both sides of Interstate 35 in Oak Cliff want a deck park. A...
- 04 May 2017 12:28
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Texas Live!
- Replies: 73
- Views: 71672
Re: Texas Live!
Glory Days...
- 03 May 2017 12:15
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: The Cedars Developments
- Replies: 252
- Views: 215597
Re: The Cedars Developments
Maybe they're simply planning for the future, angling at the aesthetic update of whatever is popular in 20 years.
- 29 Apr 2017 11:13
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport
- Replies: 420
- Views: 343853
Re: DFW Airport
I'm still not buying the future of this airport as a single alliance hub. Air carriers as well as the host population center will effectively require DFW to accommodate major connecting hub activity for at least two of the Global Alliances based on the cumulative impact from at least these three fac...
- 26 Apr 2017 12:20
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park: The Ascent Victory Park (23 ST)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 32220
Re: Victory Park: The Ascent Victory Park (23 ST)
that's a whole lot of surface and what-not to keep clean and warp free.....
- 26 Apr 2017 12:19
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park: Cinépolis /The 23 (~273 FT / 23 ST)
- Replies: 107
- Views: 117172
Re: Victory Park: Cinépolis /The 23 (~273 FT / 23 ST)
...at least half of that land should go toward a park and expansion of Museum of Nature and Science.
- 26 Apr 2017 11:59
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Issues/News
- Topic: Legacy West Retail
- Replies: 517
- Views: 490739
Re: Legacy West
One thing the cities, well Plano and Frisco, could do to shape a nicer area is co-operatives encouraging high residential density within the confines of last generation's corporate fortress campus. Plant the workers right into the workplace, so to speak. Like the article says, a touch of Uptown. Whe...
- 26 Apr 2017 09:44
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Issues/News
- Topic: Legacy West Retail
- Replies: 517
- Views: 490739
Re: Legacy West
When do you think Plano will get their I.M Pei-designed 720-foot skyscraper? Their Pritzker Prize winner designed Winspear Opera House and resident opera company? Their Kimbell Art or Amon Carter Museum? When will they have their own Sundance Square or Deep Ellum, their own zoo, their TCU, SMU, and...
- 21 Apr 2017 12:48
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: I-30 South & East Dallas reconstruction
- Replies: 131
- Views: 125300
Re: I-30 South & East Dallas reconstruction
^replacing Schepps and Wright with a boulevard and streetcar will lead the gentrification of South Dallas, situated between an actual big forest and downtown, South Dallas would become the among the most desirable residential locations in the South Central US.
- 21 Apr 2017 12:44
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: I-30 South & East Dallas reconstruction
- Replies: 131
- Views: 125300
Re: I-30 South & East Dallas reconstruction
I'd have to say Katy Trail or MATA has had more influence on Uptown than KWPark. The Park is a strong incentive to fill in many of the adjacent parcels, but Uptown had been reaching toward adolescence before that park.... Uptown started 25 years ago.... Location and a nice TIF jumpstart, and really,...
- 21 Apr 2017 11:43
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: I-30 South & East Dallas reconstruction
- Replies: 131
- Views: 125300
Re: I-30 South & East Dallas reconstruction
I still do not like building another highway, but I do still have that 'hum-just-maybe' feeling about a thru-traffic I-30.... like, the reroute of I-30 through East Dallas/Fair Park/South Dallas certainly would welcome to the Texas the opportunity for a hybrid highway-boulevard, combining the benefi...
- 21 Apr 2017 11:20
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Issues/News
- Topic: Legacy West Retail
- Replies: 517
- Views: 490739
Re: Legacy West
I'm so totally hoping in that booster club sort of way for the remaining real estate locked up in those 80/90s corporate fortress campuses redevelops with at least a few skyscrapers, breaking the 500' threshold. Getting this part of town firmly marked on the horizon would a good thing.
- 19 Apr 2017 19:42
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Arts District: The Spire Mixed Use Project
- Replies: 82
- Views: 72863
Re: Arts District: The Spire Mixed Use Project
Really too bad there's not a cooperative to redo the backside of Plaza of America so both share a promenade between train station and Arts District.
- 19 Apr 2017 19:36
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Modera Howell (Hall & Howell) (6 ST)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 16970
Re: Uptown Dallas: Modera Howell - Hall and Howell, 6 Floors
^haha the interior courtyard looks weird, but I like the street entrances.
- 19 Apr 2017 11:44
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Richardson: CityLine
- Replies: 46
- Views: 38034
Re: Richardson: CityLine
These gigantic consolidated corporate service centers and have taken hold in many population centers, but I cannot help but wonder how long the configuration will last..., then how long to retool the garages, gut and redesign the office floorplan.
- 19 Apr 2017 09:14
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: I-30 South & East Dallas reconstruction
- Replies: 131
- Views: 125300
Re: I-30 South & East Dallas reconstruction
There's no reason these massive highways cannot be constructed for transportation, flood control and to support recreation --- other than the upfront cost of doing it differently. Flanking the wilderness, these structures can also serve as wildlife deterrents, helping to keep dangerous critters out ...