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..is this the one initially proposed at 20ish stories?

I'm still pissed that Superconducting Super Collider got cancelled. Me too, that was a huge loss and would have been a significant boom for the southern side of DFW. Now that's a bigger loss than Boeing and Fair Park Cowboys combined! I'm still trying to figure out what I think about that plan to r...

Study the hired car usage and model better bus routes between downtown area neighborhoods; I have never been convinced a large public parking garage would be a negative. The opportunity to improve the destination within the neighborhood while expanding/maintaining a region-wide appeal is right in fr...

I'm still pissed that Superconducting Super Collider got cancelled.

The neighborhoods really ought to loosen the restrictions a little to allow a larger population. Let much of the single family home real estate get rebuilt as townhomes with twice the population, and some midrises with 10 times the population.

Any of the corporate office deals rumored to be 'circling' Las Colinas, Plano and Frisco should be courted for this stretch.... almost certainly Dallas Midtown will resonate more strongly for a handful of those trendy support service consolidations.

Bringing in any of the controversial Trump Inc. brands to an up-and-coming part of any town might not work until the Trump Inc brands are no longer controversial, 'nuf said.... there's not a whole lotta doubt that the Farmers Market - Government/Municipal District - Convention Center side of town is...

Lincoln Center is across the street from what would be Dallas Midtown. At first, I wasn't sure to check for a Lincoln Center thread in the Urban or Suburban Development subforum. Looked for Dallas Midtown, and there is was, Urban. So, I guess that makes it official, LBJ has official become urban and...

just wanted to get a pretty picture of this plan posted....

Since the turn of the century, I've always bundled Bishop Arts and Oak Cliff in with SoCal neighborhoods like Los Feliz and Silverlake. Hopefully the next decade will prove it true and despite a deluge of new stuff and many many more residents, the tone and disposition of the place with it's artisti...

I'll be angry if we get another crap CVS in this corner but TBH it's our own fault for not protecting this building in the first place. Talk about dropping the ball when someone drew the TIF boundary and then the demolition delay overlay and did not include this building, which certainly is histori...

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tamtagon wrote:Most of my piers, those drawn to a life of creating art or music, maintain the desire of at least amateur enthusiasts

Piers? Do you own a marina or something?

just a pond in the backyard

^There's gotta be a way for the eventual rebuild of McKinnon/Harry Hines/Dallas North Tollway that allows Reverchon Park a clear path to Little Mexico, Pike Park and Victory Park AND that returns a natural flow to Turtle Creek into and through the Design District.

I've always considered losing the Cowboys the biggest defeat in recent times, second biggest defeat being the debilitating fortress management co-operative from City & SFoT.... but thinking about it now, who knows what would have happened if the Dont Tread on Me SToF managers clashed with The Fa...

If I knew about that, I sure did forget!

^Sweet^

Will a buffered lanes connect through Victory Park to Katy Trail?

I'm perfectly fine with a fundamental shift in the function of DFW and Love Airports. The amount of air pollution from those operations is sickening.... if HSR, HyperLoop or a combo of the two eliminates most of the short haul plane trips, then good. Looking at the struggle of energy source provider...

With all the potential stops, this technology seems better for I-35 corridor cities (OKC - Monterrey) than the HSR.

^What a great ride this will eventually be.... Victory Park, Park Cities, M Streets White Rock Lake Highlands Richardson Plano!

^Chattahoochee tubing and rafting parties through Atlanta doesn't happen anymore because the river water is unsafe, reaching an remaining at that condition since the early 2000's. Since about half the population of Texas gets it drinking water from the Trinity River, the state should mandate and pay...

A quick excerpt from a Downtown Dallas Inc big-wig glowing in commentary about Boeing's new business division picking Plano as headquarters: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/04/07/took-16-years-boeings-boomerang-d-fw "If we were where we are today in 2001 when they came here...

^I believe the participant worked at Sugar Film. Too bad they up and moved to California.

This building is just waiting for a music/movie mogul with some pet projects to work on....

I'd rather have Hyperloop....

https://www.dallasinnovates.com/hyperlo ... -the-case/

Hyperloop in Texas? Dallas-led AECOM Group is Making the Case

I think you're missing peoples' points ... potentially plopping a suburban-style retail development down is a massive step in the wrong direction ...Plug a CVS into the ground floor of an urban, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly development and it becomes a complete non-issue. hahaha sorry, I wanted t...

While these drugstores are reviled for the auto-centric housing disconnected from the pedestrians' neighborhood and taking part of the profiteering of the prescription drug racket, they have also turned into an interesting combination of corner grocery store and Five & Dime.... At strategic inte...

^It's a shame thoughtful residents so often must bring these issues to the city.

RIP Elbow Room http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/04/04/real-kick-teeth-texas-am-takes-elbow-room-make-room-dental-college A real kick in the teeth as Texas A&M takes the Elbow Room to make room for a dental college Robert Wilonsky, City Columnist ...At 48 I'm already a remember-w...

I recently moved to Dallas from Atlanta and in a lot of ways, Dallas reminds me of Atlanta 10 years ago from an urban perspective. It's remarkable... as much transition and repair happening to Downtown Dallas, with an entire new section of "downtown" sprouted and growing strong (VP/Uptown...

This area is ready for couple'a nice boutique hotels, one up there near Javier's, small and double-D fancy; one near Chuy's, along the lines of a W Hotel, or (anyone else remember the rumor) a Restoration Hardware Hotel.

Apparently, the scene is coming back. https://www.guidelive.com/food-and-drink/2017/04/03/city-hall-bistro-opening-downtown-dallas-the-adolphus-hotel Sarah Blaskovich GuideLive The Adolphus' General Manager of Food and Beverage Operations Anthony Cournia notes there's a "developing food scene&q...

It's the next Uptown.

Reverchon Park is one block away, connected by a trail....

All things considered, I think Beth Van Duyne has been very good job supporting Las Colinas, but I have no POV regarding the rest of Irving. Olde Downtown Irving comes with the same excitement, potential, dense urban population desire-expectations similar to what I had for Uptown during the formativ...

Who's going to take over as Irving's mayor?

Spire is likely waiting until they've got the only land left.... Hopefully they will have a much better masterplan when the time comes.

The only other longshot is a MAJOR corporate move from another state. I'm still trying to decide what corporation I would pick to anchor a 1,200 footer... The Perot connection leads to HP Enterprise, but pulling that out of Plano would be next to impossible. I think I would want this entity to be i...

...no telling what will happen with the residential portion of this one. The hotel, restaurants and parking is to support the skyscraper, nothing else. Maybe a few years pause on the residential component will turn into a larger residential component.

at home, Chrome is fine with the site....

at home, Chrome is fine with the site....

at home, Chrome is fine with the site....

It's running slow and choppy, though

http://candysdirt.com/2017/03/28/architectural-magnificence-goal-worth-dallas/ Architectural Magnificence: A Goal Worth Having for Dallas by Jon Anderson Since the days of our 1980s architectural dalliance, I’ve panned 30-plus years of lackluster Dallas building many times. I mean, of Dallas’ talles...

joshua.dodd wrote:... a 700-800 footer in Downtown. A building this good looking...

That's the overall appearance and horizon impact I think would be nice punctuating NorthPark Mall.

A bus network highlighting the University, Stadiums and Amusement parks makes perfect sense as long as you can get into this network by train... from the airport, from Fort Worth, from Dallas, from Denton and from Plano/Frisco.

Just like Museum Tower has been labeled a cul de sac in the sky, so would a modern mixed use skyscraper, with a nice lobby for greeting visitors, two mid-body atrium and a roof garden -- almost certainly all the needs of office workers will be addressed within the tower itself. Workers venture out t...

A big push for this garage and park extension is specifically to connect the Perot Museum to KWPark. A much better park purchase is lodged under the garden apartments between the Museum and N Houston St.

If this building needs a giant garage like this, it makes me wonder how it ever got built in the first place with such a deficiency. Were all of the employees just expected to fend for themselves on the surface lots, and that's no longer competitive today? There are still plenty of surface lots aro...

Every since I was a kid fascinated by skyscrapers, I wondered why some buildings with 100 floors were not as tall as others buildings with fewer floors. Math gave me an average feet per floor, but there's still a vairable "so what" factor when considering the building height. HA updated in...

^hardcore

^or like, maybe get Sally Beauty Supply to relocate, and clad the garage as a bunch of barber shop poles.

texasstar wrote:

What would be so bad about candy cane stripes?

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