Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum

Lots of quality investment happening near Main Street Garden now-- 4 new hotels, 3 new residential developments, the law school, the Morning News. This should be a great location for Fireside Pies. I even saw a new incarnation of the Rio Room on Commerce. We should see more good restaurants soon.

$$$$$$$$$ for some TOD. Any relation to the Dallas News advocating for HSR is purely coincidental.

I never thought I would say this but I am getting used to the color. It's a throwback to days of appliances in harvest gold and avocado, and gives the whole building a retro feeling that fits it into the Statler era. http://retrorenovation.com/2012/02/15/retro-kitchen-colors-like-harvest-gold-avocad...

The completion of the garage conversion was coming along nicely, but they stopped short of glassing in the new retail. Instead they have erected plywood fronts and painted them white. This defeats the purpose of the exercise of making Victory Lane walk-worthy. Why did they do this? And what do they ...

Really need that Turtle Creek ditch turned into something nice, in the same vein as the San Antonio River Walk. Yes...and to continue the renovation of Riverfront Boulevard into a Complete Street northward all the way to the Market Center. And to connect the Katy Trail to the Trinity Strand. I don'...

$$$ It doesn't do for Cuban what AT&T Stadium does for Jones--add $1 Billion to the sale value of the team. $$$

I wonder how they would route the cars from the north side to the front of the terminal? How would they avoid runways and taxiways?

The Rebirth of the West End

http://www.dmagazine.com/commercial-real-estate/2016/07/the-rebirth-of-the-west-end/

Downtown Dallas: A Turnaround Built on Parks, Arts, and People

http://urbanland.uli.org/development-business/downtown-dallas-turnaround-built-parks-arts-people/

The old guy hanging out with a beauty queen and making a big show of opening a new hotel was:
a) Conrad Hilton
b) Donald Trump
c) Richard Branson
d) All of the above