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Was any reasoning given for closing the West End Station McDonalds? I thought that location did quite a lot of business??

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Fantastic picture comparison. Thanks for sharing. Really hoping the Little Mexico apartment blocks get taken out sooner rather than later, either for a redevelopment opportunity or to be replaced by a large park. I get that they are low income/subsidized hosing, but that land is just too valuable to...

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Great video. Is that yours or are you just reposting? Asking because I'd love some more info about the drive through testing if you know any. I'm guessing it wasn't open at this point (either for the day or it hadn't been brought online yet in totality) due to the lack of cars.

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Looks like its starting. In these hard COVID-19 times, closures of bars and restaurants around Dallas are coming fast and furious. But this closure has its own sad tale: Punch Bowl Social, the restaurant and game chain that opened in Deep Ellum in June 2019, has shuttered possibly not just on a tem...

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Well, I spoke too soon. My GM relieved me this morning, and gave me 2 options. Either a full temporary layoff, or a cutback to 24 hours (3 nights)/week. I've gotta call the Workforce office and see which of these is the better deal. In either case, IDK what I'll have left after rent/bills/DART (if ...

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Appreciate the in person insights into your industry. Please keep them coming during this very bizarre event, and most importantly, I wish you and your colleagues the best of luck getting through this.

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I just looked at the forecast for the next month at the hotel where I work, and every night but 2, we will be projected to be at less than 50% occupancy. The hotel company even has a new request code for those with reservations wanting to cancel based on the coronavirus situation. Very interesting....

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With the recent cratering in oil prices, how do you guys think this will affect the DFW and Texas economies? Most of the reports that I've seen state that with oil at the 30 bucks a barrel range, nearly all new wells are unprofitable to drill. I know that DFW isn't as closely tied to the oil industr...

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Tnexster wrote:This has a fairly impressive footprint.

I was thinking the same thing - for a relatively small tower, especially from the renderings that I've seen, they sure have dug up a large area of land.

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Any idea how this building is supposed to add up to 1 million square feet of space? If it's just 20 stories of office space (according to the dmn article as the rest of the height will be above grade parking), 1m sqft seems like quite a lot. Most of the 20-25 story towers in uptown are 300k sqft.

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Thanks for the pictures thrillhouse! Lol @ your username too. We should play some bonestorm some time.

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... the long-vacant Stampede 66, all along McKinney south of the Crescent. Quick aside about Stampede 66. The Uptown vacancy resulted in them opening up a new space at Watters Creek, on the border of Plano and Allen off of 75. We tried going there for an informal business lunch a few weeks ago and ...

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Lot F is the almost exclusively handicapped spot lot. I wonder what the implications of removing those dedicated spots are.

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Any one want to speculate on why a pretty generic property sold for so much? Really surprised that it didn't include the residential portion too.

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The Galleria office is exclusively AWS, right? Would this new office be AWS or Amazon retail? All reporting seems to suggest otherwise. Perhaps, it is AWS that is allegedly shopping for this new space. Reporting suggests what as otherwise? That the Galleria office is exclusively *not* AWS? The Gall...

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The Galleria office is exclusively AWS, right? Would this new office be AWS or Amazon retail?

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I don't recall ever seeing a rendering for that southern face of the building, but wouldn't it be hilarious if they revised the design to spite the townhome owners after they tried their nimby campaign.

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The large tower appears to be on the land where a building that is currently occupied by '44 Build' sits. They're a pretty cool custom furniture company that does build outs for commercial clients. They have a cool instagram that's worth following (@44dtx), I wonder where they're going to move to. T...

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Tivo_Kenevil wrote:What's up with 80's lambo and the guy in a suit in the front of the rendering? Lol

Excuse me that's a Ferrari 308GTB

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Drove by this area last night, and holy hell is it massive. The apartment tower + parking garage going up looks almost like a mini Parkland.

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Went to Desert Racer again just now and it was packed. Gotta feel bad for the Haymaker guys, they spent all that money renovating the place and then weren't able to find success; these new guys move in with a quick remodel after all the hard work is done and are packed. The restaurant business is a ...

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Interesting to hear, but a welcome stay of execution non-the-less. The original timeline was for BBC to close down at EOY 2019. Wonder what this means for the development overall.

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Jeez, I just looked at some of the pictures of the scarlet pumpernickle on Yelp. Looks like it was never fully built out. Feel bad for whoever was developing it, it looks like they clearly ran out of funds half way through.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/ye-olde-scarle ... ern-dallas

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Anyone know what's going on with the "77" place off of Henderson? It looks like its been closed for the last couple of weeks after opening relatively recently to what appear to be packed crowds.

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I went to Desert Racer on Tuesday 1/7. Very cool set up and when I arrived at 915pm the inside tables were about half full. The patio was essentially completely empty (which was fair as it was about 45 F) but it will be a great place to hang out once the weather warms up. Hope this place has better ...

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Has any of the retail here opened? I've noticed the sign up for "Local Tap and Table" for a few months now, but can't find much info about it online. It has a facebook page that was established in April 2019 but it hasn't been updated since. Did it fall through?

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Tivo_Kenevil wrote:He never said anything about toll roads tho lol

Lmao my thoughts exactly

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How is this church so popular? Where do its ...patrons..? flock..? (I know there is a word for it but it's escaping me) live?? I can't imagine that there is a sizeable church going crowd in the downtown or even uptown area, and this thing has been around for ages. Do people really commute into downt...

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They finally got my friend's car out of the garage. Of course he already had to purchase a replacement. 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 th...

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Did the original thread topic project ever get underway? They did end up demolishing the French style buildings here, right?

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Anyone know whats up with the trail extension that's being built below the powerline corridor immediately south of Lovers on Matilda? (Next to the central market.)

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Great pic as usual TexasStar. Thanks for posting it.

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Looks like we got a bonus pass due to the Tornado. Dallas proper is now updated again on Google Earth with a 10/21 date (one day after the tornado.) I actually am stunned that Google (or whoever operates their satellites) was able to retask their satellites that quickly. Maybe they just bought anoth...

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https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2019/12/12/austin-developer-readies-start-of-uptown-dallas-high-rise/ Looks like we're getting something pretty nice here. Might not be a tower, but it looks like a good development project Austin developer Kairoi Residential has filed building permits...

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The DBJ looks at the top 10 international destinations not served non-stop from DFW. Interesting list, but apparently all require a connecting flight from here. https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2019/11/12/dfw-airport-international-routes.html I had to go to northern italy for a wedding this ...

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Pic is from the metropolitan. There appear to be architectural drawings stuck to many of the windows on the lower half of the building, so I guess they're already at the point of framing and building out at least the lower rooms

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Too bad that giant concrete dead weight is still choking Downtown. Lol the picture of this new tower construction literally immediately adjacent to the highway is completely antithetical to your argument of the highway 'choking' downtown. Development is happening in the area regardless of I345s pre...

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Google Earth has updated imagery for the dallas area again. The new imagery is from 9/7/19 according to the timestamps on the imagery. Interesting thing I've seen while browsing around for the last 20 minutes [at work :lol: ] - the # of new low rise multifamily units in the urban area seems to have ...

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Any updates on this one? I haven't seen the site in a while, is there any action/construction?

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Lakewood2Uptown wrote:Eastwood's Bar (3407 McKinney - between The Loon and Velvet Taco) has closed.

So another bar bites the dust. Any insight into why they're closing?

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Just read this quote from the DMN article that you guys had linked to: Punch Bowl’s success rests largely on food and drink: All the games and hoopla are merely the “cheese in the mousetrap” that lures millennials in to order drinks and dinner, Thompson said in a 2017 interview on Food Newsfeed, an ...

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Dallas is on its way to becoming Bowling Central, with another new bowling restaurant concept coming to town. Called Punch Bowl Social, it's a Denver-based chain that has claimed a prized location in a long unoccupied space at the corner of Main Street and Good Latimer Freeway, where it will combin...

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Hell ya, this is such a great development in such a great spot. I think this is one of my favorite buildings of the last few years. Glad to see that the NIMBYism of the townhomes in the area weren't able to drag this down. This building is the same sort (although at a slightly larger scale!) of deve...

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Uber announced results yesterday, and it looks like they burned another 1.2b with about 12b left in reserves. Expense growth outpaced revenue growth this past quarter. I am still deeply confused as to why the developer here is so enthusiastic about this, and why they're likely doing a build to suit ...

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Great chart and thanks for posting it. Clicking through the link reveals a bit more color to the story though - Dallas proper is only added 3800 of those ~22000 units, and surprisingly Ft Worth has a (barely) larger share of that 22k than Dallas. Even more, the city propers of Miami and Seattle are ...

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The plan does indeed look pretty good. Glad that they're attempting to trench the highway to some degree as well.

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DPatel304 wrote:
Tivo_Kenevil wrote:I specifically said Downtown. I am comparing Downtowns

I know you were, but what is the purpose of only comparing Downtowns? Seems a bit arbitrary to me.

If you're just comparing Austin to *Downtown* Dallas, they surpassed us sometime in the mid 2000s...

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Imagine having to drive up 19 stories of parking ramps to park everyday.

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How is the Lorenzo hotel doing? Has anyone stayed or heard of occupancy rates? It sounded like an ambitious project and it is quite large in scale, so I'm curious to see how it's doing considering it isn't a normal hotel flag.

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Great picture. thanks for posting. I'm guessing that this is from the Sylvan ave overpass?? Such a great photo spot.

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