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^ After what's happened in NYC I think you'll find even fewer people will be less interested in the density thing.

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texasstar wrote:So, is picture number 1 circa 1986?

In the picture Trammell Crow Center (then LTV Center) is still under construction. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trammell_Crow_Center it was completed in 1985. So figure 84-85.

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My understanding is that for years the only thing that prevented a population decrease was Parkland Hospital. The annual county population increase was usually less than the number of babies born at Parkland. Thirty years of subsidizing the bottom and the top of the economic ladder while making life...

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The article was updated after it was initially posted. Went from work stopping on the new to tower to "postponing improvements to a single floor".

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Similarly, if the anti-transit crowd had their way and got a penny in sales tax back by dissolving DART, they'd suddenly have to contend with even more traffic. DART ridership may seem low, but there are like 200 people on each rush-hour Red Line train from Parker Road - that's 200 more cars on 75 ...

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How much profit does the freeway system directly generate again? Just under a billion dollars a year. That's the amount diverted by the state from fuel tax revenues for other purposes. Most of it, 25% of total fuel tax collections, goes to school funding. More information at http://bettertexasblog....

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Note that this closure had nothing to do with this particular location (which was usually packed). The entire chain went belly up.

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Damn that's ugly.

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Tnexster wrote:Is that how long ago they opened 1505 up for residential use? I remember that conversion but didn't realize that was 20 years ago.

I bought my current place in early 2002, and looked at 1505 before then.

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^ 20 years ago I looked at units in 1505 Elm. Today the penthouse is still shell space. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1505 ... 4585_zpid/

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https://www.bisnow.com/dallas-ft-worth/news/office/cre-snapshot-dallas-cbd-office-market-96023 “While Downtown Dallas is seeing a major transformation in hotels and residential, the fact remains that Downtown Dallas has one of the highest office vacancy rates in the nation,” CBRE Advisory and Transa...

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cowboyeagle05 wrote:Four lanes back up more traffic during rush hour than three lanes with a center turn lane would.

Get stuck behind a DART bus on Matilda from Ross Avenue to Mockingbird and see if you still think that.

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^ TL;DR version: Guy who builds high rise residential buildings likes high rise residential buildings.

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Southwest and American AA sent out memos to all employees to go online and vote against. I very much doubt this. Both airlines' current public position is that it they have no position. Quite frankly, Dallas-Houston is a small market for Southwest these days. The vast majority of AA's passengers be...

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I suspect some ballot box stuffing. When I checked it several days ago it was 90/10 on the for side. Unless you have land that it passes directly through, what's the argument against it? If the project fails someone (i.e. the state) is going to be on the hook for a bunch of clean-up. You can't just ...

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"We have to destroy Lower Greenville in order to save it"

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THRILLHO wrote:Let's airlift the original Rangers stadium and plop it down right there.

Hard to do, since they tore it down in 1994....

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For those who think "SoGood" is a silly name, Westdale now has a banner at the corner of Good-Latimer and Elm for "Good E".

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Staff cannot support increased residential density in the area without proper infrastructure for pedestrians—considered paramount for residential welfare and pedestrian safety.

Until they write us a big enough check.

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It's time to resurrect this thread. New apartment and grocery project in the works on eastern edge of downtown Dallas An Atlanta developer is working on plans for a new mixed-use project on the eastern edge of downtown Dallas that will include apartments and a supermarket. Southeastern Development h...

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Things have changed. I was one of those magnet thieves -- and they were very happy to have me. During high school I moved outside of the district. It wasn't exactly a secret. Hell, one of my teachers lived a block from me. But I was an endangered species -- the only white male in my graduating class...

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^ They bought everything north of Mockingbird years ago.

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There is also opportunity to convert an alley (such as 'Clover St') into a bikeway of sorts. But that seems like more work. IDK I've thought about that for Clover, but unfortunately it just doesn't work. Clover is five blocks long, dead-ending into minor streets at either end. Basically it goes fro...

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I drove through area on last Sunday before the Super Bowl and there were lots of people out but going up Commerce and down Elm and back up Main were easy and not a big deal. I don't see traffic as a problem but more of a solution to slow down vehicles and make the urban area more pedestrian oriente...

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I tend to agree about the parking... But, the width of Commerce itself is excessive; Almost to the point that it's difficult to parallel park at times when vehicles come flying down that street. Uncle Ubers is one of my main reasons for visiting DE, but that street is a dangerous mess. It would see...

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^ The plan for bike lanes on Commerce through Deep Ellum was eliminated due to neighborhood opposition. At the last neighborhood meeting to discuss the proposals for the lanes the only support came from bikers from outside the neighborhood. Not one property owner, business owner, or resident support...

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Sure looks like a pedestrian walkway between the new building and that triangular building where Nick Badovinus is putting in his new restaurant. Ironically, since they re-built Caesar Chavez the city has prohibited pedestrian crossing across it on the south side of Commerce. For months they also c...

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Not new renderings. They've been out for awhile.

This probably won't go down as the last nail in the coffin for Deep Ellum. But we're getting close.

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But, I wouldn't mind if Main street were tamed to a two lane road with wide sidewalks, parallel parking, and curb bumpouts from this point all the way into the core (where it's already two lanes). ALthough seeing parked cars inside of Dealey Plaza seems like it will take some getting used to. I don...

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...I'd much rather see DART invest in frequent service in the city center instead. in·vest /inˈvest/ verb 1. expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial schemes, shares, or property, or by using it to develop a commercial venture. "th...

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Cons: - The tracks cross three of the major routes in/out of the neighborhood. The trains block the street a surprising percentage of the time. - The train drivers love to push the button to lower the crossing gates long before they leave the station. This is especially dangerous when they block the...

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Meanwhile the residents of urban Dallas are begging for more stations and transit options and these people don't even want the train up in their suburban neighborhoods. I still don't believe in this line and would rather have diverted this money to D2 and opening up more urban stations. Some people...

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Dallas-Fort Worth ranks third in the world for data centers Dallas-Fort Worth ranks as the third-largest data center market in a new international comparison. Commercial property firm Cushman & Wakefield looked at data center projects and demand around the world for its study. More than $100 bi...

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Too bad we can't START the businesses here. That's the flip side to this situation. The relocations won't last forever and if they do the competition will get stiffer to land them. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2019/11/13/best-worst-states-entrepreneurs-2020/#12410f1546a6 Here are the...

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The Atlanta Financial Center in Buckhead straddles a highway and MARTA rail line. https://42floors.com/images/H8714cb7220b8e1b24fc1890364ae0bafc66b5b9aS1000x700W0seB505153O/b1d770305c281ad42e96fbc3ffcc70697539e28e https://1bht2ni6oc-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/tunnel.jpg?w=640

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^ If DART hadn't agreed to spend the hundreds of millions to put the rail line under Central instead of using the MKT line south of Mockingbird there would be no DART rail in the corridor. Period.

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I have to admit I don't understand why people who so much want downtown to grow want to make it harder to get in and out by removing access. Here is something I posted to another thread in response to someone wanting to remove the Live Oak exit ramp, but it's relevant here: Unless you're coming from...

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...or the name of the company that occupied the buildings before them. You mean AT&T? :-) The bottom half of the building on the left is the Central Office (CO) for downtown Dallas. Except for the ground floor it's all electronics, no people. The skybridge is so the humans in the upper half can...

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Today.

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^ Parking lot is long gone.

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A certain high school intern's desk, circa 1978 -- when it was the real AT&T.

(No, I didn't get the window. But I could see it from my cubicle).

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Sure that wasn't The Stack? (God, who came up with that name???) Their crane is going up right now.

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^ Almost definitely their late night SUP renewal.

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they've been around for 70/80 years, have raised over $150,000,000 to help over 100,000 underprivileged children.... so, like, that's a long time and a whole lotta money helping not very many kids every year. Where's all that money going, really? Your character assasination of the Momentous Institu...

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DART just loves to throw money at new/experimental stuff that's incompatible with everything they've already got, then acts surprised when it's crap. Example: The Oak Cliff streetcar.

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Does he have any insight into how they were able to extract it? From the pictures that I saw of 'the event', essentially an entire vertical section of the garage was collapsed, so I'm guessing that anything above the first floor was inaccessible due to the ramps being destroyed. They brought in two...

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In other words, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMagP52BWG8

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https://www.star-telegram.com/news/traffic/article239013403.html But even so, the number of passengers riding TEXRail is nowhere near the level that transit planners and supporters originally forecast. According to documents filed with the Federal Transit Administration in TEXRail’s applications for...

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