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OrangeMike

There are just too many governmental entities involved… Thanks for sharing the detailed breakdown on the revenue sources. Lots of good info. The counties, cities , and other Federal agencies provide zero financial support. One minor quibble: Not sure which cities you mean to include here, but the 1...

OrangeMike

Dallas Business Journal interview with a Woodfield partner about their new highrise. This link from DBJ on facebook doesn't hit a paywall for me. https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2022/12/28/21-story-project-woodfield-farmers-market.html?ana=TRUEANTHEMFB_DA&csrc=6398&utm_campaign=trueA...

OrangeMike

If that's the design they end up going with it's not too awful as far as garage coverage goes, but It's probably safe to assume the freeway facing side looks abysmal like these things always do :lol: Scroll down the Corgan link and there's a rendering of the back side showing the pool deck. Honestl...

OrangeMike

South Carolina developer plans downtown Dallas high-rise https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2022/12/13/south-carolina-developer-plans-downtown-dallas-high-rise/ Woodfield Development has filed plans with the state for a 21-story residential tower on South Good Latimer Expressway near I...

OrangeMike

I think that one was or is going to be called Sherman Lofts. I seem to remember something about a mural being painted on part of the project as well. I found the story I'd seen that mentions this. It also has a blurry rendering of the building. https://communityimpact.com/dallas-fort-worth/richards...

OrangeMike

Adding to my previous comment, the Stillwater presentation to OLC looks very well planned to me. There are fewer access points for cars and more landscaping. The added height is not going to plunge any of the townhomes behind it into shade at any time of year. The neighboring businesses will have ac...

OrangeMike

Will be a similar footprint to the existing office building coming down. However, this one should stretch from Travis to Buena Vista parallel to Fitzhugh, directly behind Clifton Club.… Browsing the Oak Lawn Committee's website, I noticed that it voted in September not to support this project, basi...

OrangeMike

An update from Steve Brown: Japan-based developer partners on new Dallas apartment high-rise https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2022/10/27/japan-based-developer-partners-on-new-dallas-apartment-high-rise/ Japan’s largest real estate development firm is partnering with a Dallas builder o...

OrangeMike

Sounds like Old Parkland will keep metastasizing along the other side of Maple. Historic Dallas dive Grapevine Bar isn’t closing — but it will move https://www.dallasnews.com/food/drinks/2022/10/17/historic-dallas-dive-grapevine-bar-isnt-closing-but-it-will-move/ The Grapevine Bar is looking for a n...

OrangeMike

I wonder how they could parlay that property they own along Lemmon into a store. The Lemmon Ave parcel seems too small for a traditional store with an acre of parking. It might be large enough to support a ground floor store with 5-6 floors of apts, but it that layout would require underground park...

OrangeMike

La Madeleine permanently closes on Lemmon in Dallas, where H-E-B owns property https://www.dallasnews.com/food/restaurant-news/2022/10/13/la-madeleine-permanently-closes-on-lemmon-in-dallas-where-h-e-b-owns-property/ French bakery La Madeleine has closed permanently on Lemmon near Oak Lawn avenues ...

OrangeMike

Is it just me or does the night view rendering look nothing like the day rendering except the basic shape of the building? Maybe this is all conceptual at this point. Sure it's still conceptual, but I thought the night view looked like a revision or refining of the original concept. It shows more d...

OrangeMike

This is def one of those projects where I wish we could see actual renderings. The ones pictured above are concept renderings, not the final designs but since they have the necessary zoning, they might not show off renderings before construction starts. This nighttime view was new to me. It only sh...

OrangeMike

Another residential tower eyed for Deep Ellum block https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2022/09/30/another-residential-tower-eyed-for-deep-ellum-block/ Texas real estate firm Stonelake Capital Partner plans to break ground next year on a 17-story residential tower in Dallas’ Deep Ellum ...

OrangeMike

This looks something like Weirs Plaza (on steroids).] What a transformation for that corner. I moved into those townhomes behind that guy's head when they were new and the Army-Navy store was next door instead of Serena and Lily. (Moved out soon after.) That whole neighborhood is exploding with gro...

OrangeMike

R1070 wrote:Fairmount Tower....

It will be a great infill project. I really like the look of it.

Yes.

It will be wild to see a 29-story tower across the side street from a holdout retail space in an old house.

OrangeMike

CTroyMathis wrote:Iced, or anyone, can you see this linked photo below?

Yes. It shows up for me even without being logged in.

OrangeMike

Connect west end to VP. This was a 2019 attempt: “The arches will serve as a walkway connecting the West End and Victory Park.” https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/historic-arches-return-to-the-dallas-west-end-neighborhood/287-a404a6ab-6772-4fdc-a4af-4aa3aa1cb82c Haven't been down there in a while. B...

OrangeMike

https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/Project/TABS2023000684 If the application is completely accurate, 56 units in a 20 story building. 90 parking spaces underground. So maybe accurate. Steve Brown just posted a story on this: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2022/09/12/apartment-h...

OrangeMike

Routh Street Woonerf.jpg

If this rendering from the presentation to OLC comes to fruition, that valet area will be a mini woonerf.

OrangeMike

If you look at that picture looking towards downtown I totally can see this area getting more towers they are right at our doorstep. Very much right at the doorstep. The Mayfair is four blocks down the street from these apartments, which is a crazy demographic juxtaposition. I could also see a lot ...

OrangeMike

This property needs to go. I hate that they don't have a sidewalk along Throckmorton. There is a new crushed gravel path there instead of the dirt/mud trail that used to be there. Also saw two or three apartments of stuff on the lawn when I walked by a few days ago that had obviously just been evic...

OrangeMike

Will be interesting to see what happens with this $8.2 million listing in the middle of the neighborhood (basically halfway between Hunky's and Taco Cabana).

https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/tx/ ... _48401932/

OrangeMike

Drove by here today and noticed a new fence placard up with images stretching around the property. This is going to be prominent along with the apartment tower behind it. Which apartment tower are you referring to? Selene, the recently completed one across the street? Or another one (so much going ...

OrangeMike

New store planned for Mansfield. Will be the first in Tarrant County.

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local ... 49de3355dc

OrangeMike

I love so much of what SOM produces and these towers are no different. Beautiful. I wish the project was oriented more along Cedar Springs though. I find it odd that these towers as well as 23 Springs are positioned away from the street the way they are. How would this project face the street more?...

OrangeMike

Tnexster wrote:The valuation is interesting since it's 750,000,000. A lot compared to the others about to kick off construction.

I noticed that too. Maybe the ginormous glass porte cochère isn't going to come cheap.

OrangeMike

They will claim Turtle Creek cause every residential project on Oak Lawn, both sides of the AVenue that are offering rents 2,000 plus market themselves as in the heart of Turtle Creek. Hell Oak Lawn park was renamed Turtle Creek Park cause the foundation wanted to associate with the affluence of Tu...

OrangeMike

Wonder what they'd even build on the Bowser property based on the size and the fact that's right in the heart of Turtle Creek. It looks like they could build something very similar to their Buffalo Heights mixed-used H-E-B in Houston. (I zoomed both maps to the same scale and superimposed the Lemmo...

OrangeMike

R1070 wrote:Did HEB sell the land they had in Dallas at Lemmon and Throckmorton or is that the Bowser property?

It's the Bowser address. DCAD's property map shows HEB as the owner of every parcel on that block.

OrangeMike

There's a plan, or at least a plan forming, to plant trees throughout the medical district, but what about bui a park? Is that in the works? It's part of the same plan, covering a reconfigured Inwood/Harry Hines intersection. https://www.texastrees.org/projects/southwestern-medical-district/ greenp...

OrangeMike

Tulsa has taller buildings than KC, so that's as far as it goes Good catch. (And Tulsa has 6 buildings taller than the one proposed here.) Even if it was true, that was a pretty lame claim to make. Even more lame because U.S. 75 doesn't pass through Kansas City. It goes through Topeka, about an hou...

OrangeMike

Wow! Very impressive renders, hope it will happen. I hope so, too. There is a very intriguing sort of deconstructed chapel restaurant space on the corner of Ross and Routh that would be next to the tallest tower. Interesting contrast if built to match the renderings, which I know is often not the c...

OrangeMike

There is a PDF online at a Portman site. Many close-up renderings and a hefty amount of crazed marketing language.

https://www.portman.app > Dallas Gateway

OrangeMike

the link? ;) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gWKKZhBf-fkFvWNetSNXrPn21LxDqfAs/view Thanks for (re)posting this. This will be a really elegant and well designed building, but I love how the Cedar Springs elevation is omitted from the presentation (pp. 32-34), probably because it would show a giant ...

OrangeMike

I wish the city and the players in this area would create a unified visual landscape and plan to make it more like the district in Houston. Seems like there are enough players and pieces in place to make that happen and even generate growth in the area beyond the medical area. Wishing the same for ...

OrangeMike

Not sure if this is same project. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2022/05/04/developers-eye-seniors-high-rise-project-on-dallas-turtle-creek/ It is not. This assisted living/condo tower in the story you posted would be on the corner of Turtle Creek and Fairmount. The corner at Turtl...

OrangeMike

Does anyone know about the old office building at Cole & Vine. I drove by it today and entire property is fenced off and there are rezoning signs up. Looks like work happening here by Stream development and Je Dunn construction. I can't find out what this project is on this lot. American Board ...

OrangeMike

undefinedprocess wrote:Please let me know your thoughts, especially any improvements to the tracker at https://undefinedprocess.com/devtracker

This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing it with the rest of us.

OrangeMike

Is anyone else seeing php error messages? I've tried to attach screenshots but instead of them uploading I got this error message in the preview to this post: [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or a...

OrangeMike

On Cedar Springs and Wycliff (across from the old Cedar Spring Chiropractic), It looks like they are prepping 3-4 of those older homes for demo (boarded up, trees removed etc). Anyone know whats going on there? I heard it was to be townhomes. I wish those old condos across the street would go too. ...

OrangeMike

Redblock wrote:The suspense builds.

They have posted a zoning change request sign.
It is case number Z201-295.

https://developmentdata.dallascityhall. ... /Z201-295/
“New subdistrict within PD 193 for hotel development”

OrangeMike

DART has a bridge to sell you. For $1.

https://dartdaily.dart.org/posts/post/f ... las-county

Near Keller Springs Park: 32.965700, -96.810881

OrangeMike

I think it’s senior housing built by the Resource Center The Resource Center did purchase the old Texaco (https://twitter.com/ResourceCtr/status/1389581214261161996?s=20) but the senior housing is planned to be built on a two-acre lot behind the Eagle, just off of Inwood between Maple and Denton Dr...

OrangeMike

From the CandysDirt article: “And if you have always wanted to know why the Midtown development at the former Valley View Mall has looked like a wasteland during the last eight years of outgoing District 11 Councilman Lee Kleiman’s tenure at City Hall, now you can ask.” The same Lee Kleinman who ow...

OrangeMike

^they should, and continue TRE to Fair Park, Mesquite, Forney and Terrell. I thought that for years now. Dallas needs the light rail for intra/inter city travel and heavy rail, like Chicago's MARTA, to places like McKinney, Frisco, Terrell, Waxahachie. Dallas had electric interurban trains to those...

OrangeMike

Has anyone noticed how bad the facade of the Centrum is looking? That update has not aged well and it's only been a few years?! wow It was pretty weak redo when it was done. I expected more for such a building. Maybe someday someone will buy it and really refresh it all the way. The original was a ...

OrangeMike

Well according to someone close the Centrum the building it is pretty damn empty now. Supposedly Capitol Factory vacated and many other tenants have evaporated as well. Not because of the building itself but just COVID hasn't done well to this building. They are offering move in incentives to get a...

OrangeMike

"The city has promised that this plan will not gather dust on a shelf like so many others have over the years. Now it has guidance. It is up to the city to follow it." Don't hold your breath. Dallas is the city that loves to plan; but hates to act. To prove your point, the plan itself ref...

OrangeMike

The City of Dallas has a new draft strategic mobility plan called Connect Dallas. D Magazine has a write-up about it with links to the study and a survey: https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2021/01/dallas-new-mobility-plan-admits-that-walking-here-is-dangerous/ It identifies some of the city’s tr...

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