Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum

Such a long long long and living history from someone living in the area is a Gold Mine. All things considered, HL, do you think the concrete efforts underway which will make Deep Ellum a daytime destination as well as nighttime will end up better than the vampire hours of 'the turn of the century'...

My two cents: Keeping in mind that the D2 alignment won't materially affect ridership (DART's own projections show D2 only affecting total system ridership by a few dozen trips per day), and that history has shown that in the CBD there is no positive correlation between the existing rail line and ne...

A couple other comments... For those talking about how busy the neighborhood is doing right now: Yes, it's doing much better. But it's still not nearly as busy as it was in the early 2000's. Not even close. Has anyone else noticed that of the various folks posting about how wonderful the Elm Street ...

The purpose of the remaking of the street was to improve the sidewalks , add parking and slow down motorists. Just how Elm was meant to be when originally constructed. Total success... If your entire premise is that the sidewalks are same and given The capacity is still 2 lane Going east /west. The...

Also, yes, they reduced street parking a bit, but that seems to have been significantly underutilized. Additionally, from a resident's perspective, I'm not sure how street parking availability on Elm is particularly meaningful, regardless. That shows just how little you understand the the neighborh...

First complaint I've heard about Elm. I see lots of new businesses in the neighborhood --and not just clubs, but a variety of retail--new residential, and new investments in rehabbing the old buildings. With all of that, I see many more people who come to the neighborhood to walk around and do stuf...

Perfect for DART:

The purpose of the remaking of the street was to improve the sidewalks , add parking and slow down motorists. Just how Elm was meant to be when originally constructed. Total success... The width of the actual "thru" sidewalks was not changed, they just added abutments along parts of it. T...

The City approved a Thoroughfare Plan amendment in 2015 to reduce Elm from five lanes to four. What you are seeing is the first in a series of modifications that reallocate the northside travel lane to other uses such as wider sidewalks, indented parallel parking, etc. The Drever and Tower Petroleu...

Are you aware that pedestrian-only downtown malls have turned out to be absolute disasters in this country? IIRC, around 85% fail and are converted back to normal streets. Those that don't fail are almost all located in towns with less than 50,000 population. http://nacto.org/docs/usdg/revisiting_pe...

willyk wrote:Do you remember Louie's fish joint for lunch?

Nope, doesn't ring a bell. Where was it?

Mainly I remember Never Eat Anything Larger Than Your Head, Wendy's, Great Outdoors (on Main?), and riding my motorcycle to the Jack In The Box on Live Oak -- which I still visit all too frequently...

lakewoodhobo wrote:Thanks for sharing, Noah. We don't see a lot of color photos of Corrigan Tower before they painted the brick section.

Did you notice the Medical Arts Building in the middle of the picture? It was gone within a year or so after this was taken.

^ Not yet. I'm guessing another week or so.

dfwcre8tive wrote:New signage is up and outdoor furniture is on the way for the 40th anniversary year

That may just be the scariest sentence I've ever read in my life.

Because I was there.

Buffalo hasn't been a "major city" in a long time. Population is somewhere between Garland and Plano.

So why would we want a city that's been losing population for 70 years as a role model?

Needs to stay underground until north of Elm Street.

rasec33 wrote:Would've been nice to have the lakes!

You mean the stock ponds?

ContriveDallasite wrote:Wow, if Little Mexico were to be developed in to several 10-15 story mixed-income towers that would be huge. Dallas is in desperate need of more centrally located affordable housing.

Because housing the poor in clusters of high-rise buildings has worked so well in all the other cities that tried it.

It is totally out of scale for the neighborhood. This isn't Uptown. It looms over everything on the eastern half of Deep Ellum. About half the height would have been fine.

/\ sorry you were not able to figure out what i was talking about -- I should have been more specific but could not think of the name... it's I-345 -- its a shot in the dark but I don't see the Trump Administration supporting public transit (i could be wrong who knows what they will do) What does I...

The Deep Ellum Foundation is talking with the city about taking over operating the city-owned lots under I-345 to make them more efficient and effect. There's also an effort to create a pooled valet parking service for the restaraunts. Scott Rohrman's outfit, 42 Real Estate, has mentioned building a...

gshelton91 wrote:If public transit ends up taking a back seat over the next few years to roads and cars perhaps this will be a good opportunity to seek funding to submerge the above ground highway connecting I45 to I75.

I'd hate to see the construction bids for a 900 mile long tunnel. What's wrong with I-20 as is?

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electricron wrote:There's no 500 feet tall hills with steep grades in Austin to overcome.

You've obviously never done a triathlon in downtown Austin. It might not be 500 feet, but there's one hill that sure feels like it....

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Cheers!