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Dorothy Spur separated from the Rock Island Railroad (now TRE) just west of CentrePort Station. It wwnt down a sreep grade to a bridge across the Trinity and continued south on the east side 360 to connect with the switching tracks of the Great Southwest warehouse district. The track is gone between...

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Some workers showed up this morning to begin preparing for the demolition. They used sledge hammers to knock down some brick work around the entrance to the garage. Then they went into the building to work. No big machines or dump trucks yet.

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The Cafe Express and a nail salon soon to open in this building set up tables on the sidewalk today to hand out ads and coffee samples.

The Cafe Express people said they will open in mid-December.

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There are no public restrooms or snack machines in Cityplace Station.

Downtown Irving, Addison, Arapaho,and Ledbetter have restrooms and snack machines. I am not sure about Parker Road.

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No, they could not reach a deal for the Sugar building. It will remain.

The building to be demolished is the red building north of the vacant area.

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According to construction company, demo on law firm may begin end of November and hotel construction early 2018. However they also mentioned that deal is not 100% go yet. We had a contractor and two architects from a Salt Lake City firm ride the trolley from Cityplace station to Cole and Bowen to v...

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They seem to be pouring a floor (columns and floor) every week to ten days. I expect it to top out in Oct.

The rendering on the banner on the fence shows the top 'floor' to have a smaller area. This may be mechanical space. A smaller floor will indicate that they are finishing the structure.

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By my count, the residential tower has just completed the 30th floor. Two more to go!

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The tower crane was raken down today.

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Well they are spending some money! A contractor is drilling core samples through the sidewalk in front of the building to be demolished.

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The workers have returned and are working on the steel frame again.

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This project now has two tower cranes.

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This project now has its own tower crane.

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We have a mystery here. For several weeks construction work has pretty much stopped. Recently the rent-a-fence was taken down and hauled away leaving only wooden barricades at the driveways.

What we now have is a 90% completed steel framework with some wallboard and possibly no tenant.

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A donut shop has opened on Allen Street near I Fratellli. It is called Urban Donut. Here is their website.

Www.urbandonutdallas.com

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The first section for a tower crane has been set in the middle of the hotel site.

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I agree now that this is not the hotel site or project. We should soon know what it is. A rent-a-fence is now erected around the lot but there no new signage showing what is coming. Looks like they are building a condo building on that lot. Be interesting to see how tall it is. Crescent Collections...

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In better news for steak eaters, an Argentinian restaurant is opening soon in the former Stephen Pyles space at Ross and St. Paul.

Here is their FB page.

https://m.facebook.com/Corrientes348Dallas/

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Here is a presentation that The-T made to the Tarrant Reginal Transporation Coalition last week. It shows some of the remderings shown in the above post but also includes actual construction photos. If you scroll passed the construction section you will find photos of the train assembly now going on...

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Walked by this the weekend, it's a different property on the other side of Noble from where the property owned by a hotel group. It's where the Italian restaurant that burned down like a decade ago was. Since one small bank if financing the construction I'm guessing it is going to be a low-rise ret...

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Here is a link to a DBJ article on this project which is finally getting underway.

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/ ... f-new.html

Today an excavator was on site and knocked down the first of the old houses.

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This project finally got its fourth tower crane. It is near the Woodall Rodgers/Olive corner and will be used for the mid-rise part of the residential building. It is much shorter than the other three and kinda cute.

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With a little Googling I found the auction announcement. It was held last Thursday, April 6.

https://www.samauctions.com/4/6-former- ... nt-auction

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In the last half of March there were some electrical contractors working in the building. The only change I noted was refrigerated displays were no longer lit up.

After the electricians were gone, some pickups from an auctioneer company were parked there for a few days.

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Could it be this? http://ucr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1919-McKinney-Ave-property-flyer.pdf A cool brewery would be awesome there! I think that link was a suggestion by the new owners for turning the HKS buildings into one or more restaurants. There was a brew pub in the building facing McKinn...

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The tower cranes will be coming down next week, probably starting Monday, April 10.

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The lion statues were removed from the Ross Avenue side of Trammell Crow Center today.

And I am not 'lyin' even if it is April Fool's.

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A bulldozer is now on site.

Let the digging begin.

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The rent-a-fence was set up today.

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I clicked on this link on a post by Texasstar. It is a handy compilation of renderings of Dallas projects currently under construction. You can click on each rendering for a larger, expandable view.

https://sway.com/L6WeXwbxQKgsvP9m

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^^^^^ There are now FOUR cranes on this project!!!

Also, the first forms have been set up above grade.

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Does anyone still have a link to the renderings for this project?

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R1070 wrote:How many floors left on the PWC building?

I count 17 floors completed. The title of this thread mentions 20 floors. If that is true then there are three more to go.

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The plan is for Fogo de Chao to open next Monday, February 13. The furniture was delivered last week and the staff is training.this week.

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Tnexster wrote:That is an amazing amount of garage space. Still no glass.

GLASS!!! Yes, there is glass on the lowest office floor. It appears about 8 floor-high panes were mounted on the Woodall Rodgers side of the building in the last day or two.

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I feel like with these developers you never really know the exact floor count until the project tops out. lol I saw the constuction superintendent there yesterday. There was no work going on on Sunday, but he had some family members out showing them the project. I asked him how many more floors rem...

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As of 1/20/17, the Texas Land and Cattle at Cole and Lemmon is permanently closed. A notice is posted on the door that employees will receive their final checks next week.

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Tnexster wrote:What floor are they on? About 14?

When you posted this queston in early January, they were pouring the 14th floor. Now the 15th floor is finished, the support piers and form for the 16th floor is ready and the 16th floor will be poured this week.

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Tnexster wrote:I saw a crane base today at the old Sonic location.

This crane was erected on Saturday, January 7.

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They have started setting fence posts around the ex-Sun Fresh parking lot.

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The Water Grill Restaurant was open for lunch today (valet on Harwood). It maY have been open on the weekend but I was not in Uptown Saturday or Sunday.

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I have forgotten the name of this development group, but there appears to be some movement on this project.

A sign has been posted on this property stating that Texas Brand Bank is providing construction financing.

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In mid-November Moxie's restaurant opened in the former Arcodoro & Pomodoro space in the Crescent. It is the first US location for this Canadian chain. This store is partly owned by an executive of the Dallas Stars. Here is the website. http://us.moxies.com/?gclid=Cj0KEQiAvNrBBRDe3IOwzLn6_O4BEiQ...

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FYI, the new routing of the D-link bus goes directly between Uptown to/from the CBD Farmer's Market.

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Here is an article promising a start of work soon on the project on Ross between Harwood and Olive, across from Trammell Crow Center. http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2016/07/07/city-block-project-on-ross-avenue-on-track-to-get.html?ana=e_ae_set1&s=article_du&ed=2016-07-07&u=qEOD5r...

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