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CTroysco, IKEA Beast.

But it looks like it would make an excellent next-generation Dallas Public Library Branch with hotdogs

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Insane would be projecting ten-storey-high Costco specials on both sides in real time FOREVER

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Street cred would be a Tivo Kenevil boutique on the ground floor.

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It looks like their existing fuel station is on the nearest (northeast) corner of the parking lot.

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CoStar interviewed some brokers who didn't have a connection to the auction (Costco bid 14.25MM, next-highest bid was 12.5MM) and was told that the additional costs of renovation made that unlikely to be a planned backoffice location for Costco, and more like a bid for its lot value. They speculated...

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I didn't see the original interview where he described the idea but it was December 2022. Off-topic but: I don't think that the year in which both LA teams and the Suns, Nugs and Dubs are all all-in on winning a championship is going to be the year that the Mavs finally put together their winning de...

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say the owners in the league would not see a reason to approve the Mavs going to Vegas and leaving just because of buyer's remorse about details of the owner's dream arena proposal. The league would be able to charge a mammoth new franchise fee to people like Shaq a...

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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2010/04/15/leaders-neighbors-praise-mark-cuban-s-planned-development-in-east-oak-cliff-area-of-dallas/ [2010] "Time will tell how the [176-acre] project helps the area [near Kiest and Sunderland, five miles from DTD "in South Dallas, where basketball is king...

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Yes, had not thought of it like that. So where would you like to put the first / original design now? Maybe I-345?

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No near-term public plans forthcoming but the plans are privately underway. I do not think that this would fit on a remaining site in Victory or at the 13 acres where the practice facility sits. I remember that he's bought much more land south of downtown somewhere (I don't mean the 77-acre village ...

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I am glad that they are not wasting their Akard/Caroline/Payne site on N. Field Street (which the FAA approved for 620' height although that approval expired last year) on this though!

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The reason it's no good (and you're right) is that by his criterion a building floorplan the size of a shipping container and one the size of a city block are the same, in fact indistinguishable ... as long as they stack the same number of levels. Obviously that's no proxy for skyline momentum or fi...

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The McDermott Bridge looks a lot better than this busybusy thing under construction in Miami: https://www.wsp.com/en-us/insights/2021-miami-signature-i395-cable-stayed-bridge With two more legs on that one I would have assumed it was the spider and that the building next door was the tuffet (as in t...

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http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=TYR-KHQZ-DAL-DFW-AFW-KXBP

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So, crazy idea... In the distant future when the Orange Line has four tracks (two express, two local) and a subway station tunnel spur exists between Burbank and Love Field terminal, ...could a secure side spur track (think the credits sequence to Get Smart, or a James Bond movie) beyond the Love Fi...

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West 7th's Crockett Row sold last year to a Dallas company and has been renamed Artisan Circle

https://fortworthreport.org/2023/11/18/ ... -circle-2/

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Thanks!

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A worthwhile update. Thank you. A lot of great curricula are already produced on shoestring budgets or free and open source, if DCCCD will just welcome skilled citizen facilitators, make it worth their while to mentor other promising community members, and so forth like a real community. In the 1990...

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can't recall whether Cedar Springs will be extended west to N. Houston St. in the NorthEnd redesign. It would make plenty of sense for circulation but maybe not for the "towers in a park" desire of the site owner. Other states and cities have had an increasing number of POOPS or privately ...

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Paywalled, but he is the namesake of a city recreation center.

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In the same vein of the urban Dallas proposed/approved/construction/completed thread, here is a catch-all thread about other national urban redevelopment sites and anything we want to discuss about them. Interesting discussions take place in those cities about them, and even some of the puff pieces...

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I guess I would have done the site plan completely differently. Put KERA along Wolf Street, with nice frontage on a south-facing courtyard and with its roof as a large terrace for the office tower… and then, separately, at the narrower end of the block, residential buildings with retail connecting u...

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The best way to build a land use and get the project built is not to build a small project -- and risk less money upfront, but at the cost of forever accepting a lower profit ceiling, if you will -- but to build multiple things that can provide additive complements for each other. Turtle Creek is No...

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Dallas is probably on the same "nice to have at some point in the future, but in no hurry" list with Mandarin Oriental as it is with Four Seasons because of the economy, and the state of downtown's office market being in flux (hotels such as Four Seasons and Mandarin Oriental are heavily ...

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In the same vein of the urban Dallas proposed/approved/construction/completed thread, here is a catch-all thread about other national urban redevelopment sites and anything we want to discuss about them. Interesting discussions take place in those cities about them, and even some of the puff pieces ...

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If ground doesn’t break in December on the $80,000,000 building specified in your DBJ link… Meanwhile by the Galleria actual ribbon cutting has been happening this year: https://www.cbgbuildingcompany.com/projects/hazel-by-the-galleria/ https://www.hazelbythegalleriadallas.com/ Owner ZOM says: “Haze...

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I'm being annoyingly frank but if we want the bar to rise, it would raise the bar downtown to be dealing only with a set of peers who all want to be there. Hines moves mountains to build in Boston, London, and the West Coast, as well as in rapidly growing economies with much lower metropolitan GDP t...

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Thinking about this, does dispersed presence significantly discourage corridors of critical mass simply by driving down the unsatisfied demand or is the demand still there? And does the commonest retail unit size being supplied simply need to shrink down to one-room bays (rather than imitating lifes...

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Now that they break ground knowing that they are roughly 50% anchored right out of the gate, it would sure be lucrative if they would add a penthouse of several smaller boutique floors to the mix, and use the leftover rooftop for a colonnade terrace overlooking the skyline...

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I don't know if any of you knows your way around USMayors' website. They seemed to stop publicizing or linking to their annual "Metro Economies" reports when the metro economic growth went belly-up in 2020, but they continued being written. I found a link (below) to the 2021-vintage number...

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Because we stopped thinking about Houston once we outgrew the rivalry duh

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You're not wrong

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Merriman Anderson’s section diagram confirms that the floor to floor heights will be 16’ throughout

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17*14 = 238 but that would “be highly” unusual to have 16+-foot ceilings on a residential building.

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Sounds as though only one retail unit. Not sure why they are minimizing ground floor retail uses if they so want it contributing to the urban fabric of the area. “The ground level perimeter that faces outward is pedestrian-focused, thoughtfully landscaped, and welcoming. There is one retail opportun...

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Thanks all

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IMG_1822.jpeg Design Architects -- Munoz + Albin, Houston Architects of Record -- House & Robertson (Houston office) Development Partners -- Hines and Mitsui "The new project is generally divided into two building typologies, tower and mid-rise, that share a common parking garage podium. A...

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A lot of people in the financial industry are "long Miami" leading to significant superheating of property valuations there, according to some articles, and looking around for relative real estate growth deals, as they always are, they seem to be going "long on Central Florida" c...

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Eet mor red birdz

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It wouldn't need to change if it's a midfield transfer terminal for cross country connecting flight passengers. That is what DEN, ATL and other top hubs were built around. No comment on Southwest's business model but they do end up having a lot of passengers sitting on planes during point to point t...

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RodB wrote:FAA approved this request last week, so we will see what happens next.
https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/se ... 830&row=14

Good to see, thanks RodB

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Cities know how to have a great urban environment in the midst of a high throughput corridor. It's called a boulevard. You just have to widen things A LOT. We skimp; it fails. Complete streets are just trying to make the best of a bad situation. I say that because the width of the sidewalks, the wid...

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I have a friend down in New Waverly (sometime home to the Beat writer William S. Burroughs, who wrote to friends about how wild nature was in East Texas) who raises rabbits and carries a pistol when she goes into the rabbit hutch because she often sees a black mountain lion watching her from the tre...

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1. The Hippalectryon is a mythological neighbor of the beloved pegasus 2. Project Pegasus is a creative name that was already used downtown in recent memory 3. What creative ideas would you bring together under the name of a new project -- by analogy of this unheard-of creature to our imagining of t...

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Just noticed Tnexster had introduced this project in FTW misc. thread when it was first announced.

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;) It's well established that the origin of FW's association with panthers was the published Dallas newspaperman's slur that a wild panther* had been seen (fast asleep, even?) in the street in Fort Worth in broad daylight simply because Fort Worth had so little going on there to deter it. So they mi...

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I always got the impression that people in charge (both government and private sector) in DFW are impulsive and over-the-top and sometimes in coming up with "world class" plans they bite off more than they can chew. Sometimes it works out, like DFW airport, Reunion Tower, DART, Cowboys St...

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Tillar Partners in local economic development subsidy negotiations to develop 512,000 square feet of office over retail on their 529 North Throckmorton Street site https://www.bisnow.com/dallas-ft-worth/news/mixed-use/developers-pitch-120m-mixed-use-project-for-panther-island-in-fort-worth-120947 &q...

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Here's how Fort Worth's new economic development strategic plan could effect real estate Spencer Brewer, Dallas Business Journal Mar 1, 2022 The plan proposes launching public-private partnerships to develop at least 1 million square feet of Class A office space in and around downtown Fort Worth by ...

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http://www.triunecentrefw.com/p/9 https://streamrealty.com/triune-centre-office-development-coming-to-fort-worth/ One selling point on this long sliver site with six 5,000 square foot suites stacked along a freeway frontage is that the parking is not a drive in structured parking garage at all, but ...

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