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Currently Delta has decided not to compete hub-against-hub with carriers in Texas anymore, though: it is still focused on Austin (Delta's only other hubs or focus cities anywhere in between Utah and Georgia are Detroit and Minneapolis). https://crankyflier.com/2021/03/09/deltas-decision-to-dump-focu...

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Delta did expand at Love Field this year: https://thepointsguy.com/news/delta-texas-route-expansion/ Delta continues to fly to "eight of its nine hubs" (not Seattle) out of DFW and has not cut service there as it has added flights from Love to LAX, LGA and ATL. "In total, Delta will o...

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Thanks Pukar!

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Just to nitpick, not sure how downtown Austin strikes people as geographically central. There is a lot more population north than south: Williamson County, 610,000
Hays County, 240,000, and Bastrop County, 97,000

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Maybe a large, conventional, convenient and inviting, open surface lot visible from freeway could just be -- in place of the ever popular green roof -- on the roof of a new Dave and Busters', to make more of the prime space?

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https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2019/12/first-look-field-street-district-in-dallas/ It is visibly, clearly much shorter than the 579' Ross Tower / Lincoln Plaza at 500 N. Akard, because it is the same height despite being a quarter mile closer to the camera viewer than that background tower. B...

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In the 2019 renders I count 37 floors (perhaps only 30 of office atop the podium though) plus an additional two floor sky ceiling feature or mechanical penthouse fin. https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2019/12/first-look-field-street-district-in-dallas/ It is visibly, clearly much shorter than th...

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They should totally build some golden arches for those who think they heard Mc's as a further abbreviation of Mc-eyDee's. Most McDonalds' have already gone boring beige business class already to get more morning coffee sales, or to outlive the Happy Meal reputation... Frisco is similarly engaged in ...

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Cool about Farmers Branch!

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Had to look it up but Clements has a labor and delivery department. Probably Methodist Richardson as well. Grand Prairie's biggest hospital is just a few blocks across the county line into Tarrant but that's a minor quibble for this conversation. Baylor's Plano hospital on PGBT is also about a mile ...

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Do you have a source for Childrens, Medical City, Methodist and Presby as well?

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Good points all

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Sure, if all we had to compare with were El Paso, Beaumont, and Little Rock and New Orleans and Shreveport, it would be a huge leap but if one compares the past thirty years of Dallas politics and population growth against those suburbs and Austin and Houston and Ft Worth.... then it seems initially...

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smaller portion of the Metroplex's population and keeps losing out on corporate relocations/expansions to its suburbs is definitely a concern with respect to the city's long-term ability to attract young families and pay for legacy expenses as it ages. Agreed except that it will be the suburbs agin...

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Doubled edged sword of having older high end shopping but being outside of Florida/California/Boswash... Houston only recently has gotten scaled up toward DFW levels so their ages and locations are calibrated only to present desire lines

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Well, yeah, wallboard is the color of dramatic belt tightening if pre-'department-store-nirvana' Dallas was still the highest retailed-square-feet MSA per capita in the country.

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The complex reminds me of old seaside resorts but the campanile reminds me of this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_ ... k_1886.jpg

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Right on.

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Dallas has turned into Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and all of those cities that are divided by communities pitted against each other. It's sad to see that it has gone down that path. I don't see anything positive for the city in the coming years. One of the examples of this is the Oak Lawn Comm...

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The Rockets' newish owner built a posh highrise hotel between Uptown Houston shopping district's Post Oak Boulevard and West Loop South. Jerry Jones won't live forever and the next Cowboys or other media-courting franchise owner will not keep moving closer and closer to the Red River. That pendulum ...

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The Galleria is a a tipping point. It needs to downsize the retail aspect of the development and the retail industry continues to downsize. NorthPark is going to attract the boutique stores, while they will skip stores in The Galleria . The owners need to proceed with their plans to demo the South ...

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Real estate isn't their strong suit but I'm sure KDC could figure something out

https://www.commercialcafe.com/commerci ... ade-tower/

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... in one of the fastest growing regions in North America [suburban cities] already basically replaced downtown as the central hub or business center for the (at least) Dallas side of The Metroplex. In the 90s and 2000s, leadership always painted a picture of Southern Dallas being uniformly poor a...

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Addison wrote:Dallas is *NOT* a dying city, and nothing like San Francisco or Detroit (I should know, as I'm from there).

The city has its problems for sure, but the doom & gloom is getting ridiculous...

Code again! Get the patient a debentonvilleator, stat!!!

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I wish that they would lower their reward and also their risk by becoming "master developers" and selling ground leases for multiple small parcels to other investors. They could stipulate the timeframe and minimum value, minimum floor count or style or whatever they wanted without having t...

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https://www.papercitymag.com/real-estate/field-street-district-dallas-downtown-brings-towers-hotel-apartments/#261678 Three and a half years ago it was a matter of connecting the city like never before. Woods is investing in the Knox Park area but if they can't get people out of their seats to come ...

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Nice writeup. Weiss' reminds me of NYC's cultural acropolis model of Lincoln Center, but I don't think that this layout can make it a crossroads since the daytime flow from KWP towards Field Street District is so much less than on the Upper West Side of Manhattan

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Another H-E-B brand is coming to the area. "Joe V's Smart Shop", a brand that doesn't quite connotate 'grocery store' IMO, has been an H-E-B brand presence prior to now in Houston. According to several reports, the ex-Albertsons at US 67/Wheatland that was acquired by H-E-B a while back, ...

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This looks like it's settled and we have it in print that this is the completed design. My impression is that it will age better than the other recent skyscrapers in this or most other American cities. It doesn't look like it's trying to establish a fad but it doesn't look (aside from the ADA-defyin...

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If parking revenue finally flatlines, then it will encourage those who have been banking that land for decades to find someone who can afford to do something to revalue it.

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I read dead people!

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There legitimately are lots of north Dallas voters who moved into the flight paths of Love Field expecting never to be hearing any more growth in flights overhead beyond "what it was when they moved there." Not good for the city of course but they are not willing to let the expectations go...

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That's a pretty big ace up the city of Dallas' sleeve.

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Fort Worth based AA basically owns that city so we likely won't see an airport open there for usage by SWA, so SWA is basically locked out from any growth in DFW until some random suburb decides to build an airport (unlikely). Southwest can legally expand to any DFW area airport in 2025 without giv...

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"The revamped location is forecasted to become the highest volume sales location of any U.S. airport restaurant with an anticipated annual revenue of $14MM; ... The restaurant, located in Terminal B at Gate 10, will be TGI Fridays' first patio dining airport experience as well as feature one of...

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Plus they have to work astride the Santa Fe Terminal's underground tunnel?

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Maybe these proposals are for thousands of sculptures to mill around on a sculpture of a broken escalator. These helicopter architects pay attention after all!

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*checks watch* yep, it's Christmas in July...

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Mnemosyne

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...look at this absolute beaut. dma1.JPG dma2.JPG Generally they all expect to keep the sculpture garden where it's at, and they all expect Harwood between Flora and the freeway to become pedestrianized. Lots of rooftop access and "green roofs" across all of them. Non-street-level plazas ...

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The difference I would say is that it has never been easier in human history to relocate, and it's a even easier task if it's simply relocation within the same country. There is very very little actually holding people to Texas Point taken. The general problem with professional mobility at the fami...

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On the climate change front, we can speculate over what the future will bring until we're blue in the face. But interestingly enough, there's actually a fair amount of empircal evidence over the past 40 years that the frequency of tornado outbreaks in DFW has decreased markedly, which is a positive...

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Oh sure but that's precisely because its own combination of access, sunk costs, nearby institutions, street scale pattern and fashionable demographics can't be directly competed with in Preston Center, Westover Hills, Las Colinas, Exposition Park, Downtown Denton, Downtown Richardson, Lakewood, Bish...

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I think DTD has a good amount of foot traffic. Especially considering the whole hybrid work thing. I'll bet you can't find very many restaurant operators who would agree with that. Ok I’ll bet that you will bet on that sort of thing. :) Nevertheless your ambitions to get on past the hot air and rhe...

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TBH I think this consultant is overrated and is better at managing relationships with philanthropists and execs than they are at getting civic commitments to pair well with good intentions or design ideas, regardless of what you think is the ethics of their "reverse freemium" offer to prof...

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...look at this absolute beaut. dma1.JPG dma2.JPG Generally they all expect to keep the sculpture garden where it's at, and they all expect Harwood between Flora and the freeway to become pedestrianized. Lots of rooftop access and "green roofs" across all of them. We'll see how much of th...

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There's that headless 2200 Ross on the back left!

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