Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum

Jbarn

At any given time, they have less people working on this skyscraper than they would have building a new house in Frisco. At this rate, it will take years and years and years to get this done. I am not confident this will ever get finished. The city should require that they at least put up scaffoldin...

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Three years until completion seems like a long timeline for a building like this.

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The powers that be in Texas, especially in the Governor's office know the impact bills like that cost the state and obviously there are elected officials on both sides of the aisle that also understand the impact. Never underestimate the power of legislators to enact laws that don't serve the state...

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I am not sure why we even pretend like we have a chance at this. Amazon absolutely will not move to a place that is located in a state that probably will have a bathroom bill passed during the next legislative session. I recently attended a presentation by a state house rep that talked about this i...

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I am not sure why we even pretend like we have a chance at this. Amazon absolutely will not move to a place that is located in a state that probably will have a bathroom bill passed during the next legislative session.

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tamtagon wrote:^It's a neighborhood grocery store, not a Wal-Mart Supercenter....

By no stretch of the imagination would this be considered a “grocery store”. More like a convenience store. You would be hard pressed to find enough ingredients of any kind here to even cook half a meal.

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I went this morning and was terribly disappointed. Very small, and very small selection, unless you want a bottle of wine. Basically a glorified 7-11.

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This seems more like an inexpensive hotel than a hostel. Backpackers staying in hostels are looking to pay about half that amount or less to share a room with others. This has definitely been dallasized.

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Is there a parking garage for the cinepolis theatre? If not, they’re screwed.

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Personally, I'd only consider The Spire and also Smart City to be the only 'huge swaths of urban land' that may or may not be developed this cycle. Everything else would either be an area that is not all that important at the moment, or the land isn't really large enough to negatively effect the su...

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I certainly hope that we are not about to see a repeat of what has happened in Dallas for decades now; developers come in with grand plans, clear cut huge swaths of urban land, the economy falters, and we are left with vast areas of dead space for years until the next wave of development. Creates re...

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The road patchwork looks really terrible. I agree..... It's not just in this location either. Whoever is in charge of patching roads is doing a terrible job. The area where Harry Hines meets Akard in front of The Union is deplorable. They patched it up many months ago, did a terrible, ugly, uneven ...

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CTroyMathis wrote:Ok, was wondering. I don't think I saw that this past Saturday so hopefully it's gone.

https://twitter.com/CTroyMathis/status/ ... 6727848962

The second photo in your twitter link, beside the red pickup, all the way across the front of the building.

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Hope they can get that graffiti off the front I was wondering what graffiti you are referring to. The old MAC blue wall is still there dividing the ugly Shell-dominated strip center and has hand-written paint on it saying what restaurant is moving in (been there about 1.5 years) and someones random...

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I wonder where all that empty acreage is in New York City. I have rarely ever seen an empty space there. Rochester, buffalo, Houston, Tampa, etc....less available space than nyc and Chicago. I have been to all theses cities, this report is highly questionable.

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Hope they can get that graffiti off the front

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I believe if I saw correctly when I drove past there last weekend, there was graffiti across the front of the building. I may be mistaken.

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I don’t know who we think we are kidding. We have no chance with this. Dan Patrick easily won his primary, and will probably trounce the Democrat in November. The bathroom bill will be returning next year and will probably pass this time as they are stacking up the Texas legislature with ultra-conse...

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Would Amazon really want to risk coming to a place that will probably be passing a bathroom bill in the next legislative session? That would be a huge risk for them.

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DPatel304 wrote:Looks like progress has picked up in the past month or so. That's not saying much, but it's still exciting to see the progress.

Yeah, should be complete by 2021 or so.

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mdg109 wrote:From a couple weeks ago.

Welcome to bustling downtown Dallas folks. Oh my god, that looks sad.

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mdg109 wrote:Dallas Morning News.

Looks good. I do wish they would have made the Dallas Morning News lettering on the front of the building larger though, it is very small.

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Well victory isn't really dense right now a bunch of the apartments just opened or are about to open. Give it time. That would all be well and good if the people that lived in those buildings actually acted liked they live in an urban area and left their apartments on foot as opposed to jumping in ...

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This model of luxury and high-end everything just makes this end of Uptown dead. Look what happened to the first round at Victory Park. Compare that to Uptown North of Maple Ave. a totally different atmosphere. I rode my bike through Victory today. Another picture perfect day when you would think t...

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I was there yesterday afternoon, picture perfect weather. The Starbucks was busy, but the area out front and around the building was dead, depressing. It has so much potential, but when you have the ritz Carlton “Wall” on one side, an overpriced steakhouse that is closed during the afternoon on one ...

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Thank god they are making their decision before the bathroom bill gets passed in the next legislative session. Otherwise, we wouldn’t even be in the running for this project.

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I love all that’s going on with this property but I wish we would get retail. All that gets announced Downtown is new restaurants. People need places to shop downtown. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy with all the activity going on downtown. We just need some new retailers people who live downtow...

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soco wrote:20170930_145036.jpg

Yea, only 3 more years to go before this one is completed.

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As long as our great state leaders continue to push and pass anti-gay, woman, immigrant, minority, etc...bills, does it really do any good for well-known folks to try and promote our city to millennial outsiders? We have the unfortunate position of being a great city located in a wacky state. Outsid...

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I remember an article many years back about this church (St Jude Chapel) specifically trying to address the needs of workers, by providing a true 'sanctuary' from the hustle and bustle of the outside world for prayer purposes. I've never been in here, but I know my mother-in-law used to go when she...

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mdg109 wrote:I'm not sure about Mudsmith. It would be a while before they'd be able to move in. This pic is from yesterday.

How odd. That is the exact same way that it looked two years ago. I am surprised they have been able to block that whole side of the street for this long with no visible progress.

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And once again, we end up with a huge, empty lot that will potentially be that way for the foreseeable future. It ruins the dense cohesiveness we are always striving for when we have these huge empty lots. This seems to happen a lot in Dallas.

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/\ I love historic buildings but frankly at the point it was deemed too damaging to the building to restore it to the original i would rather have seen it demolished. What we have now is just as ugly as it was before and will do little for the street life. But we know that more than likely if this ...

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So it seems we are going to be left with a huge vacant lot for the foreseeable future. What a shame. This area is somewhat urban, and this really creates an energy void. We have too many of these in Dallas.

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Why is it that everyone seems so shocked by a garage being added in the base. In Chicago either all or most new buildings have garages and even if they don't they usually have contracts with garages in other buildings because most people only ride the train for convenience and to save money. If som...

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If it hadn't taken them three years to get where they are now, not even close to complete, this wouldn't have mattered.

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It seems like every time we take a step forward with retail downtown, we take a step back. We never seem to be able to get over that hump. I am amazed that those high-priced stores on Main are still in business. I suspect Headington is heavily subsidizing them. The majority of folks who work downtow...

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According to the APTA - DARTS daily ridership is 231k, houstons is 306k.

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I believe we should subtract the 22 million passengers that DART includes in their numbers that are HOV lane drivers. I am pretty sure Metro is not including those folks in their numbers.

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We should revisit this topic in 9 years. By then the revamp of the bus system should be complete and they won't need a mascot. They can just rely on their service, convenience, safety and reliability to get people on board. How sad that a similarly laid out city, Houston, had the foresight to actual...

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First, they should focus on actually improving the transit system itself so that people will actually ride it due to its usefulness.

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I believe the numbers in that article are way, way off. 21k for San Antonio?35k for Detroit? Really?

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R1070 wrote:I wonder when the LED at the top of the building will be re-lit.

I wonder when they will get those spaces across elm street from this building finished. They have been working on these buildings for years now. I am curious as to whether they will ever be finished.

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Is there any work being done on this one? Seems to be very quiet when I go by.

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I think we need to come to the terms with the fact that people in Dallas are not walkers. Most folks here will drive around for 15 minutes looking for a parking spot at the front door, rather than park and take five minutes to walk 2 blocks. No matter how much denser we seem to be getting, we are mi...

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It doesn't have to be dead. (Under the El in CHI.) http://cpplunkett.photos/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/looking-down-street-under-el-train-tracks-092014.jpg I agree it would not take a lot to make the underpass workable -- They could place some restaurant incubators under the freeway using Cargo Con...

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Now if we could just get some moderately priced retail in downtown. The prices at all the retail on Main are way out of reach for the vast majority of regular folks. The growth downtown had been great, but at some point we need to get stuff down there that regular folks can relate to.

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I wonder how they get farmers to show up at these small markets, when the actual Dallas farmers market rarely has any farmers anymore.

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They definitely need to start running more cars on weekends. There are lines of folks waiting at klyde warren park and most cars are full.

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