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- 10 Jun 2022 17:53
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 800
- Views: 352380
Re: Uptown Dallas - Field Street Development [North End Apartments Site]
...Be lucky to get a 50 story-ish (office especially) approved. Oh I don't know. I think Goldman Sachs would love to make this kind of impact on the skyline. Ego, ego, ego. You think that because. . . ?? Have they displayed that tendency anywhere? They have at 30 Hudson Street in Jersey City, but t...
- 08 Jun 2022 11:48
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood District: No.14 (388 FT / 26 ST)
- Replies: 198
- Views: 93415
Re: Harwood District: No.14 (388 FT / 27 ST)
Cool, thanks for your post. Haven’t seen this before and don’t personally like its tollway glass box design or find its minor angles worthwhile, but I count 20 floors of office over about a 6 floor podium — 7 if the lobby loggia is double height.
- 07 Jun 2022 15:48
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 569545
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
Good post. Agreed. There's a hotel in Singapore called Oasia that I'd like to see reworked and riffed on over here in a more Dallas buff-yellow brick or terra cotta color: https://inhabitat.com/this-plant-covered-singapore-skyscraper-could-be-the-tropical-building-of-the-future/oasia-hotel-downtown-...
- 07 Jun 2022 15:31
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Turtle Creek: 2743 TC (308 FT | 25 ST)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 39259
Re: TC Area: 2727 Turtle Creek Blvd
Thanks T!
UDR is the developer mentioned in the article.
https://ir.udr.com/investor-relations-o ... fault.aspx
UDR is the developer mentioned in the article.
https://ir.udr.com/investor-relations-o ... fault.aspx
- 06 Jun 2022 20:31
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 569545
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
Dallas is quickly becoming a top 5-10 city skyline in the United States...Top 20 in the world IMHO In 1990 that was still true. Not anymore. The Metroplex is likely out of the top ten in the Western Hemisphere now: Greater NYC area Chicago by itself Toronto-Mississauga, Ontario lakefront South Flor...
- 04 Jun 2022 21:50
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Fair Park: Community Park
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3664
- 04 Jun 2022 09:23
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas: Medical District
- Replies: 179
- Views: 146597
Re: Dallas: Medical District
The University of Texas System is unrelenting in building a campus in Dallas. As a UT graduate, who has seen the Austin campus go vertical, I expect the same fate for Southwestern here in Dallas. New research lab at UTSW which is specifically a dual UTD-UTSW project: UT Dallas, UT Southwestern Brea...
- 04 Jun 2022 09:12
- Forum: Art + Sol
- Topic: DTD: Crow Museum of Asian Art
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18074
Re: DTD: Crow Museum of Asian Art
Project has now begun construction. Duplicate link of the full update in that other thread (since it isn't the DTD Crow being discussed in this thread):
https://dallasinnovates.com/12-acres-of ... -district/
https://dallasinnovates.com/12-acres-of ... -district/
- 04 Jun 2022 09:10
- Forum: Art + Sol
- Topic: UT-Dallas gets art collection, new museum
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18473
Re: UT-Dallas gets art collection, new museum
My opinion: they seem to be legitimately interested in becoming a 'university' and not just a fancy engineering trade school. I wouldn't be surprised if they had long-term plans (~20 years) to open a more liberal-arts esque college on campus, and this may push them along. 12 Acres of Creativity: UT...
- 04 Jun 2022 09:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Arts District: Dallas Gateway | Portman Holdings
- Replies: 176
- Views: 54025
Re: Arts District: The Spire Mixed Use Project
Mods please update this thread to reflect that Portman Residential out of Atlanta now has the site. I don't know what the latest progress report is so I will not cite one but hopefully someone does.
- 15 Nov 2021 12:28
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment (The Central)
- Replies: 476
- Views: 1202140
Re: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment
Side tangent re: that part of the city. The details were lacking so I’m glad Cityplace didn’t become a 1980s Rockefeller Center as planned. But even if the lone survivor, Cityplace tower, would have some weaknesses as a piece of monumental sculpture, it’s a cliff face that I sure enjoy in street vie...
- 13 Nov 2021 11:15
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Fort Worth: Texas A&M Campus
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4370
Re: Texas A&M - Fort Worth
It's better than that daydream, but just because A&M got land there doesn't mean it creates any strengths alongside any other research or innovation. They could have gone next to Cook Children's or in the Cultural District if they want an effective "Educational Alliance" -- https://www...
- 12 Nov 2021 10:17
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Dallas High School
- Replies: 165
- Views: 114688
Re: Downtown Dallas: Dallas High School
CTroyMathis wrote:skeets wrote:I can't tell if those lower floors in front/left are done or if that is scaffolding.
They're not done in that section yet.
Could a garage floorplate be that see-through?
- 10 Nov 2021 10:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Design District: Urby Dallas I + II (~308 FT | 27 ST)
- Replies: 281
- Views: 166630
Re: Design District: Urby Dallas I + II (~308 FT | 27 ST)
The garage columns will have to be stronger under any future tower footprint. They likely will be visibly thicker, too, because a wider column gains a greater than proportional added efficiency in handling loads. If someone can't spot this difference from the edge of the construction site, it will b...
- 09 Nov 2021 12:07
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~424 FT | ~30 ST)
- Replies: 232
- Views: 106734
Re: KDC & Miyama Project - 30 ST
I think this one is going to have to land a real big-time tenant/relo to get started at this point, especially considering the way KDC has been acting The stacking diagram of KPF's design in the digital brochure at https://www.parksideuptown.com/ shows 15 or 16 floors of parking starting seven leve...
- 02 Nov 2021 14:41
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Tired of all glass towers ?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6815
Re: Tired of all glass towers ?
Stone towers in the 80s were a fad in the midst of a longterm pattern of increasing glass usage 1940s or 1950s to 2020s. Glass boxes are a low % of all mid-rise hotel, office, and residential buildings and a relatively higher % of all tall ones. ...possibly because, when a room's views are longer an...
- 22 Oct 2021 12:41
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 584237
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
It'd be totally at home in Washington DC, in a good way
- 16 Oct 2021 13:53
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox: Oliver + Central (18 ST)
- Replies: 71
- Views: 71841
Re: Knox: Oliver + Central (18 ST)
Kairoi is co-developer of both Austin's 6XG tower (below) and the new 1,000-footer there. The only other tower they manage here is the Katy at Victory Park (3111 N Houston) but maybe this sale indicates some interest in not only owning but perhaps developing a tower here once Austin cools off. https...
- 15 Oct 2021 10:35
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: DFW Economy
- Replies: 462
- Views: 427511
Re: DFW Economy
Luxembourg City (pop. <150,000) is ranked completely neck and neck with San Francisco, so take it with a lot of salt
- 13 Oct 2021 15:49
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Arlington Development and Transportation Projects
- Replies: 128
- Views: 80843
Re: Arlington Development and Transportation Projects
https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=458349761&row=1 At 260' in height the Loews will be less than the SkyScreamer, the Superman roller coaster, or Cowboys' stadium, but greater than Titan or Mr. Freeze :) https://www.emporis.com/city/102102/arl...
- 05 Oct 2021 15:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Convention Center
- Replies: 206
- Views: 87595
Re: Dallas Convention Center
My tamtagonian dream would be to set aside land alongside the Majestic now for large and small public-private-partnerships to create a new vision of Theater Row for several blocks (block-fronts, actually, with convention space behind, above and below in the remainder of the blocks) in the Sheraton D...
- 05 Oct 2021 15:32
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Convention Center
- Replies: 206
- Views: 87595
Re: Dallas Convention Center
Buying the Sheraton out, I imagine, would be for the same reason the public would not want to build a new CC next to the larger existing collection of hotels at Dallas Market Center -- because picking one private sector owner to extract rents for decades from the political jackpot is unwise, compare...
- 01 Oct 2021 09:13
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: One Uptown (~235 FT | 20 ST)
- Replies: 85
- Views: 63390
Re: Uptown Dallas: One Uptown (~235 FT | 20 ST)
Maybe Dallas just ins't a great condo city. It's so striking that Austin can sell out a 49 story condo before it's topped out and anything we have here takes years after it's finished to sell out. And it's always the same......yeah but once this happens or this project is finished or that project g...
- 29 Sep 2021 08:42
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Fort Worth: misc. developments
- Replies: 107
- Views: 68085
Re: Fort Worth: misc. developments
I'm going to let this stay Fort Worth focused. On this particular limited subject, the statements above are uniformly off in (to me) random ways. Just for example, Memorial City is a 12 mile drive from downtown, same 12 miles as Klyde Warren to Belt Line in Richardson. You recall it being slightly o...
- 28 Sep 2021 19:35
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Fort Worth: misc. developments
- Replies: 107
- Views: 68085
Re: Fort Worth: misc. developments
Are there any exciting projects happening in dallas anymore? Not trying to compare to Houston, but Houston seems to keep adding cool mixed use projects all throughout the city even with covid-19.They broke ground on a massive project called east river, post HTX, the allen, Hanover regent square pha...
- 27 Sep 2021 13:07
- Forum: Art + Sol
- Topic: "True Stories" screening with David Byrne
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12380
Re: "True Stories" screening with David Byrne
I recall in the background of the song "Hey Now" the local water tower was visible. It didn't look like the name printed was Plano or Red Oak but I never quite caught it. Wonder what mall they shot the fashion show scene in. Nowadays that would be in an outdoor lifestyle center.
- 23 Sep 2021 15:02
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: The Old Red Museum is leaving Old Red Courthouse
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3824
Re: The Old Red Museum is leaving Old Red Courthouse
In museumese, I believe dispersal only refers to separately selling off or giving away the collections.
- 20 Sep 2021 14:11
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: McKinney/Boll Tower - 2614 McKinney Ave - (18 ST)
- Replies: 227
- Views: 176814
Re: Uptown Dallas: McKinney/Boll Tower - 2614 McKinney Ave - (18 ST)
I haven't heard of a groundbreaking on the 2700 McKinney mixed-use tower across the street.
https://www.endeavor-re.com/services/fe ... nney-boll/
Endeavor's plans there were approved by the city in May.
http://citysecretary2.dallascityhall.co ... 1-0788.pdf
https://www.endeavor-re.com/services/fe ... nney-boll/
Endeavor's plans there were approved by the city in May.
http://citysecretary2.dallascityhall.co ... 1-0788.pdf
- 17 Sep 2021 18:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 800
- Views: 352380
Re: Uptown Dallas - Field Street Development [North End Apartments Site]
Dallas needs to make Goldman Sachs an offer they can't refuse otherwise we will just keep on loosing the big fish to the Burbs as we have for so many years. The problem is workforce, they love to be close to easy access to finance people and now thats become Westlake or pretty much that whole area....
- 13 Sep 2021 08:57
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 800
- Views: 352380
Re: Uptown Dallas - Field Street Development [North End Apartments Site]
Thanks for that rendering. I do think that from that angle even the tallest proposal would look significantly shorter than Renaissance Tower (886' high) as the uptown site is farther away from the viewer and the residential ceiling heights are lower than office by several feet per floor. ...This is ...
- 10 Sep 2021 18:11
- Forum: Art + Sol
- Topic: UT-Dallas gets art collection, new museum
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18473
- 10 Sep 2021 18:10
- Forum: Art + Sol
- Topic: DTD: Crow Museum of Asian Art
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18074
Re: DTD: Crow Museum of Asian Art
UTD going full throttle on the pointless art expansions. https://magazine.utdallas.edu/dr-richard-brettell-distinguished-professor-arts-leader/ "The Athenaeum project was Brettell’s magnum opus in his final years at UT Dallas. Envisioned as an on-campus museum and performing arts complex, the ...
- 10 Sep 2021 14:02
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood Int'l District: Harwood No. 8 (New Rolex Building)
- Replies: 76
- Views: 76248
Re: Harwood Int'l District: Harwood No. 8 (New Rolex Building)
https://www.aiadallas.org/v/blog-detail/Detail-Matters-Timeless-Fortress-The-New-Rolex-Building/su/ -- 2018 interview with Japanese stonemason on the project What are your impressions of Dallas? "I have been to many places in the U.S., but this was my first time being in Dallas. I became very f...
- 02 Sep 2021 12:54
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 800
- Views: 352380
Re: Uptown Dallas - Field Street Development [North End Apartments Site]
Since the center piece 83-story tower is based for residential at 890-ft in height. If it is changed to be all office, it would be well over 1000 and closer to 1200-ft, that is if Goldman Sachs wants this tower for office. Some developers are raising the ceiling heights a lot for office now. A rece...
- 31 Aug 2021 13:27
- Forum: Opolis Blueprints
- Topic: DART buses post-Cotton Belt
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4104
DART buses post-Cotton Belt
Vitruvian Park / Vitruvian West (no relation to Viridian in Arlington) is a walkable mixed-use masterplanned district that is still not served by DART bus routes; the route 488 bus stop at Valley View & Marsh is three quarters of a mile walk away. Route 488 then serves Brookhaven College while l...
- 19 Aug 2021 17:02
- Forum: Opolis Blueprints
- Topic: Dallas WTC
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5749
Re: Dallas WTC
https://austin.towers.net/abolishing-far-limits-downtown-is-the-best-idea-austins-had-in-a-while/ Maybe Harlan Crow shouldn't ever make this tower taller. Maybe the city should buy land on the borders of Love Field to allow future runways to be poured in a different direction (still straddling our t...
- 19 Aug 2021 16:30
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
- Replies: 563
- Views: 533587
Re: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
Agree, especially since this Isosceles residential tower proposal is also by Todd who are running the surrounding mixed-use infill and adaptive reuse
- 13 Aug 2021 16:50
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 404818
Re: DART D2 Subway
at least someone at DART has recognized that any two branches of the network can be connected, rather than blindly following the paths set 10-20 years ago... Yeah that's a valuable insight I hadn't had -- that the [color] Line South and [any other color] Line [East OR West OR North OR even South] c...
- 12 Aug 2021 11:15
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
- Replies: 410
- Views: 245216
Re: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
The 20-acre Dallas Smart District (featuring NewPark) and SoGood are both by the same developer. Perhaps less momentum on NewPark would actually lead to more exclusive attention to the Cedars.
- 02 Aug 2021 20:58
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Local place name origins/meanings thread
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7355
Re: Local place name origins/meanings thread
Good tip. Without looking up any local history, there are a number of straight shots named Airline that connect larger or older roads and are not heading to any current airfields -- in Bossier City, Corpus Christi, Houston, Longview, Pauls Valley, OK, and in the countryside in several counties. This...
- 02 Aug 2021 17:35
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Design District: Urby Dallas I + II (~308 FT | 27 ST)
- Replies: 281
- Views: 166630
Re: Design District: Urby Dallas I + II (~308 FT | 27 ST)
True, R_P. Emporis says the Anatole is 316' tall at the roof (probably used to be 320' to the tips of the W and the A on the headline signage, but Hilton now uses shorter letters than Wyndham did) and at 308' the Urby towers will be equally visible. https://www.emporis.com/buildings/118407/hilton-an...
- 02 Aug 2021 12:57
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Local place name origins/meanings thread
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7355
Re: Local place name origins/meanings thread
Anyone know why the street connecting to Mockingbird from the end of McKinney Avenue by NCX/Katy Trail was named "Airline Road?"
- 31 Jul 2021 12:55
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Lake Highlands Town Center
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17920
Re: Lake Highlands Town Center
A different developer has (also?) broken ground on a 400-apartment complex by the mass transit here, called Lenox Lake Highlands:
https://www.multihousingnews.com/post/o ... -property/
https://www.multihousingnews.com/post/o ... -property/
- 26 Jul 2021 23:19
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
- Replies: 563
- Views: 533587
Re: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
If the storm drainage capacity's prefabricated inside the depth profile of the new expressway concrete beams, then the ground will not require excavation before the mainlanes can be replaced. Just lay them like a land bridge. The tradeoff is that the maximum volume of aboveground drainage needing to...
- 26 Jul 2021 22:29
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
- Replies: 563
- Views: 533587
Re: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
"Three visits to the Dallas Public Library surprised me, pleasantly. Young Street—the whole strip between the Library and City Hall—is not a thing of beauty. At best it’s a serviceable, charmless thoroughfare. On hot sunny summer days, it has something of the effect of an eerie De Chirico paint...
- 17 Jul 2021 13:37
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Convention Center
- Replies: 206
- Views: 87595
Re: Dallas Convention Center
Speaking of arenas torn down, I'd rather have 3D or 3C on our Reunion Arena vacant lot and have mixed-use things between it and the Omni and the Hyatt Regency, with a clear path to it from Union Station platforms. More travelers will be coming to this from the airports than would be coming from the ...
- 17 Jul 2021 13:15
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas (Eastside): 2 mixed-use towers
- Replies: 96
- Views: 37628
Re: East Side Downtown 42-Story Tower Proposed
re: jrd1964, the thinner tower of 30 floors seems to me to stand across the alley from 2121 Main, running parallel to it, and then the 42 tower turns the corner on a deeper site.
- 16 Jul 2021 12:08
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas (Eastside): 2 mixed-use towers
- Replies: 96
- Views: 37628
Re: East Side Downtown 42-Story Tower Proposed
Would this be the NW or NE corner of Elm/Pearl? Hope this project is a sure thing and doesn't get derailed. More height and less surface parking is needed on that side of the CBD. "would take up most of the block at Elm and North Pearl streets near Interstate 345. Two small buildings and surfa...
- 14 Jul 2021 19:07
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Convention Center
- Replies: 206
- Views: 87595
Re: Dallas Convention Center
Convention Center masterplan - 5 alternatives 3C and 3D I like the best. It seems like they’re trying to keep the old Memorial Auditorium. Thoughts? https://www.dallasccmasterplan.com/alternatives Both of those alternatives are described as meeting the recommendations, despite 3D having as little a...
- 09 Jul 2021 23:59
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
- Replies: 654
- Views: 533668
Re: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
Update on this construction progress, please!