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by I45Tex
02 Dec 2023 18:23
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Replies: 63
Views: 10107

Re: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.

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...
by I45Tex
02 Dec 2023 18:13
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Replies: 63
Views: 10107

Re: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.

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...
by I45Tex
02 Dec 2023 18:08
Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
Topic: Margaret McDermott Bridge by Santiago Calatrava
Replies: 148
Views: 115549

Re: Margaret McDermott Bridge by Santiago Calatrava

Yes, had not thought of it like that. So where would you like to put the first / original design now? Maybe I-345? ;)
by I45Tex
01 Dec 2023 20:50
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Replies: 63
Views: 10107

Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.

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 ...
by I45Tex
01 Dec 2023 09:39
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Harwood District: No.14 (388 FT / 26 ST)
Replies: 198
Views: 93317

Re: Harwood District: No.14 (388 FT / 26 ST)

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!
by I45Tex
30 Nov 2023 20:36
Forum: Texas Town + City Issues/News
Topic: Dallas skyscrapers don’t stack up to the booming Houston and Austin skylines
Replies: 2
Views: 5041

Re: Dallas skyscrapers don’t stack up to the booming Houston and Austin skylines

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...
by I45Tex
30 Nov 2023 19:35
Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
Topic: Margaret McDermott Bridge by Santiago Calatrava
Replies: 148
Views: 115549

Re: Margaret McDermott Bridge by Santiago Calatrava

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...
by I45Tex
22 Nov 2023 17:41
Forum: The Airports
Topic: DFW Airport
Replies: 420
Views: 330406

Re: DFW Airport

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...
by I45Tex
21 Nov 2023 19:27
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: misc. developments
Replies: 107
Views: 68029

Re: Fort Worth: misc. developments

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/
by I45Tex
21 Nov 2023 19:24
Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
Topic: Plano: misc. developments
Replies: 88
Views: 62014

Re: Plano: misc. developments

Thanks!
by I45Tex
18 Nov 2023 11:14
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Dallas College: El Centro relocation
Replies: 30
Views: 16770

Re: Dallas College: El Centro relocation

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...
by I45Tex
18 Nov 2023 02:35
Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
Topic: Street name changes/proposals
Replies: 25
Views: 26929

Re: Street name changes/proposals

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 ...
by I45Tex
18 Nov 2023 02:25
Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
Topic: Street name changes/proposals
Replies: 25
Views: 26929

Re: Street name changes/proposals

Paywalled, but he is the namesake of a city recreation center.
by I45Tex
16 Nov 2023 12:05
Forum: U.S. + World Urban Development
Topic: Downtown District Megaprojects
Replies: 1
Views: 1690

Re: Downtown District Megaprojects

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...
by I45Tex
16 Nov 2023 01:28
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Chalk Hill / Kaizen / KERA Site
Replies: 17
Views: 3543

Re: Chalk Hill / Kaizen / KERA Site

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...
by I45Tex
13 Nov 2023 20:44
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Turtle Creek: Four Seasons Hotel & Residences (3001 Turtle Creek)
Replies: 191
Views: 67854

Re: Turtle Creek: Four Seasons Hotel & Residences (3001 Turtle Creek)

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...
by I45Tex
11 Nov 2023 19:04
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Turtle Creek: Four Seasons Hotel & Residences (3001 Turtle Creek)
Replies: 191
Views: 67854

Re: Turtle Creek: Four Seasons Hotel & Residences (3001 Turtle Creek)

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 ...
by I45Tex
11 Nov 2023 17:36
Forum: U.S. + World Urban Development
Topic: Downtown District Megaprojects
Replies: 1
Views: 1690

Downtown District Megaprojects

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 ...
by I45Tex
11 Nov 2023 14:44
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: North Dallas: Midtown
Replies: 385
Views: 771499

Re: North Dallas: Midtown

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...
by I45Tex
11 Nov 2023 12:05
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Victory Park: AIRE residential (23ST)
Replies: 31
Views: 4943

Re: Victory Park: AIRE residential (23ST)

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...
by I45Tex
11 Nov 2023 11:34
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Victory Park: AIRE residential (23ST)
Replies: 31
Views: 4943

Re: Victory Park: AIRE residential (23ST)

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...
by I45Tex
10 Nov 2023 12:33
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~424 FT | ~30 ST)
Replies: 232
Views: 106647

Re: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~445 FT | ~30 ST)

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...
by I45Tex
10 Nov 2023 01:15
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: DFW Economy
Replies: 462
Views: 427253

Re: DFW Economy

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...
by I45Tex
10 Nov 2023 00:58
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: misc. developments
Replies: 107
Views: 68029

Re: Fort Worth: misc. developments

Because we stopped thinking about Houston once we outgrew the rivalry duh
by I45Tex
09 Nov 2023 22:24
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: misc. developments
Replies: 107
Views: 68029

Re: Fort Worth: misc. developments

You're not wrong
by I45Tex
08 Nov 2023 22:25
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Turtle Creek: 3503 Fairmount - The Julien (~237 FT | 14 ST)
Replies: 10
Views: 3007

Re: Turtle Creek: 3503 Fairmount - The Julien (~237 FT | 14 ST)

Merriman Anderson’s section diagram confirms that the floor to floor heights will be 16’ throughout
by I45Tex
08 Nov 2023 22:21
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Turtle Creek: 3503 Fairmount - The Julien (~237 FT | 14 ST)
Replies: 10
Views: 3007

Re: Turtle Creek: 3503 Fairmount - The Julien (~237 FT | 14 ST)

17*14 = 238 but that would “be highly” unusual to have 16+-foot ceilings on a residential building.
by I45Tex
08 Nov 2023 22:15
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Victory Park: AIRE residential (23ST)
Replies: 31
Views: 4943

Re: Victory Park: AIRE residential (23ST)

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...
by I45Tex
08 Nov 2023 13:48
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Victory Park: AIRE residential (23ST)
Replies: 31
Views: 4943

Re: Victory Park: AIRE residential (23ST)

Thanks all
by I45Tex
07 Nov 2023 19:45
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Victory Park: AIRE residential (23ST)
Replies: 31
Views: 4943

Victory Park: AIRE residential (23ST)

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...
by I45Tex
06 Nov 2023 19:41
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Uptown Dallas: The Carlisle on the Creek (~360 FT | 30 ST)
Replies: 80
Views: 23207

Re: Uptown Dallas: The Carlisle on the Creek (~360 FT | 30 ST)

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...
by I45Tex
03 Nov 2023 12:47
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Red Bird Mall
Replies: 109
Views: 83913

Re: Red Bird Mall

Eet mor red birdz
by I45Tex
03 Nov 2023 12:31
Forum: The Airports
Topic: DFW Airport
Replies: 420
Views: 330406

Re: DFW Airport

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...
by I45Tex
01 Nov 2023 11:03
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Uptown Dallas: The Carlisle on the Creek (~360 FT | 30 ST)
Replies: 80
Views: 23207

Re: Uptown Dallas: The Carlisle on the Creek (~360 FT | 30 ST)

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
by I45Tex
30 Oct 2023 22:11
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Oak Lawn: 3900 Lemmon
Replies: 18
Views: 5366

Re: Oak Lawn: 3900 Lemmon

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...
by I45Tex
30 Oct 2023 12:26
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: Panther Island
Replies: 24
Views: 18680

Re: Fort Worth: Panther Island

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...
by I45Tex
30 Oct 2023 12:20
Forum: Opolis Blueprints
Topic: Project Hippalectryon
Replies: 1
Views: 2464

Project Hippalectryon

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...
by I45Tex
29 Oct 2023 09:48
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: The Crescent office and mixed use complex
Replies: 5
Views: 1310

Re: Fort Worth: The Crescent office and mixed use complex

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

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=386&start=50#p35585
by I45Tex
28 Oct 2023 06:31
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: Panther Island
Replies: 24
Views: 18680

Re: Fort Worth: Panther Island

;) 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...
by I45Tex
28 Oct 2023 06:13
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: Panther Island
Replies: 24
Views: 18680

Re: Fort Worth: Panther Island

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...
by I45Tex
28 Oct 2023 06:05
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: Panther Island
Replies: 24
Views: 18680

Re: Fort Worth: Panther Island

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...
by I45Tex
28 Oct 2023 05:58
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: misc. developments
Replies: 107
Views: 68029

Re: Fort Worth: misc. developments

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 ...
by I45Tex
28 Oct 2023 05:32
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: Triune Centre boutique office
Replies: 0
Views: 1205

Fort Worth: Triune Centre boutique office

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 ...
by I45Tex
28 Oct 2023 04:45
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: The Crescent office and mixed use complex
Replies: 5
Views: 1310

Re: Fort Worth: The Crescent office and mixed use complex

It reminds me of a smaller version of The Quad[rangle redevelopment infill office] in Uptown Dallas, or of the "creative hub" built and being marketed at 14th and Spring in Midtown Atlanta:

https://14thspring.com/
by I45Tex
28 Oct 2023 04:39
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: The Crescent office and mixed use complex
Replies: 5
Views: 1310

Fort Worth: The Crescent office and mixed use complex

IMG_1744.jpeg Yes, confusing choice of name recognition when there is already a Crescent office-plus-mixed-use complex in Dallas, except that it is being developed by (who else?) the company named the same thing. "A strong lender relationship and proven track record of success paved the way fo...
by I45Tex
28 Oct 2023 00:56
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
Replies: 800
Views: 351938

Re: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd

At this point they’ll just subtract another floor for every Garcia RBI
by I45Tex
27 Oct 2023 16:35
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Southern Gateway Public Green
Replies: 50
Views: 44271

Re: Southern Gateway Public Green

Let's build condos for zoo animals. Then everyone can be very interested
by I45Tex
27 Oct 2023 11:32
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Downtown Fort Worth: Texas A&M Campus
Replies: 8
Views: 4363

Re: Downtown Fort Worth: Texas A&M Campus

"“The acquisition of the Oncor property represents an exciting opportunity for Hillwood. It puts us in the middle of one of the fastest-growing corridors not only in downtown Fort Worth but within the entire city,” Steve Aldrich, senior vice president of Hillwood, said in a statement. The prope...