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A few years ago, similar stories were circulating cause Valley View had closed a Park Cities moms started noticing more minorities at North Park. They kept claiming North Park was being overrun by crime. It was mainly circulating on mommy blogs, and the real press ignored most of the news tips cause...

West Dallas needs infrastructure work as well. Lots of these small streets don't even have sidewalks... Pretty embarrassing that the city would go decades without even making any sort of effort about that .. We studied the history of West Dallas in City Planning classes in college, and yes it was p...

Stuff the parents and kids around the fountains will no doubt consume. I wonder if it will mostly be bottled water, drinks, etc, and repacked snacks or if they will try to make anything fresh. I imagine If anything is made fresh, it will come out of the restaurant and simply be carted over and refri...

Maybe its a command center for the fountains?

GunnerDallas wrote:I've noticed that in the past week, plywood walls with fake greenery have been put up on a couple of lots at the corner of Cesar Chavez and Commerce. I wonder if this could be staging for construction start of the new Isosceles tower.

Thats just Carpenter Park....

Duely noted that the city has decades of history of underfunding Fair Park when they come up with an excuse as to why they have to.

For clarity's sake, Goldman Sachs is already a significant tenant in Trammel Crow tower and renewed its lease a few years ago. They already have a sizable worker population in the CBD. It was previously suggested that they would add some jobs, a few thousand but not 5,000 in total jobs. It's still j...

I think these designs are more functional than the previous square ponds were, as usual, marketing flash without any real understanding of how a project like this would actually work or be built. This project will help encourage a bunch of lands to be marketable for urban redevelopments like homes, ...

The question is always what is diverse enough. What numbers are reasonably representative of the area, to wealth distribution, and what is "equality" actually look like. I just think we need to reexamine the numbers every time a developer or politician says their project is celebrating the...

I assume you mean the Fair Park 300 million investment is just a cover for the bigger Convention Center project? Yes, but I support the reinvestment of Fair Park. I understand tying them together is a way to float a more extensive project, but it certainly helps sway my vote. I disagree with the con...

Not if they have the zoning they need to build what they want. If the design fits with all the rules for the parcel and they do everything the city wants on paper, they can build something without much public viewing or required showing of renderings. Things are approved monthly in this city that do...

Well, there is more details on the Fair Park projects at this time anyway. The Dallas Convention Center project is in the design phase. Those renderings released before were CONCEPTS by the consultants. The city approved a design phase which, I am sure to your point, won't be finished till after the...

Its been approved though by the city council for over a year. It's well past the OLC level. The OLC approved it, and the city did as well. It seems like it's completely in the developer's hands here. Steve Brown said its "pending" in his recent article, so I can only assume the developer d...

Lets be clear the reason people are upset is that the developer produced crazy exciting renderings with super tall towers and implied it was what would be built but really was just showing off to grab a lead tenant's attention. AKA CONCEPT RENDERINGS. It worked they got Goldman Sachs on the phone an...

mdg109 wrote:I thought this property was part of the Methodist church not First Baptist.

Correct, this is not a First Baptist Property this is the Methodist church.

Now the news is that Streetlights Residential is planning a tower in Knox Henderson on the Henry Majestic strip center, so they seem to be focused on that project for now rather than the one that was announced for this site in 2019. Developers in the city limits sometimes will build one or two proje...

An outdoor space is better than a parking lot, though.

Also he properly put the project under a non-profit with an obvious lead to Matthews Southwest being the contractor so he can benefit from the project building with tax money and donations fitting the bill and his real estate holdings in the area benefiting in value when it's complete.

Lets focus on this part of the news report...

Final design for the Water Commons has not been finished, and supporters of the project had no estimated date for project completion.

But renderings and details are more advanced than in years past.

Kaleidoscope Park will thoughtfully engage the diverse and rapidly growing communities across North Texas Let's start a practice of every time they use the word DIVERSITY, we actually post the data, so we know just how "diverse" these communities are. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fri...

The developer proposed a tower over as part of Central development on 75 cause its Streetlights Residential, so I doubt that. They have proposed two iffy proposals in the last few years. I believe they got approval even with the 7-story parking garage above ground, though via Oak Lawn commitee. The ...

If it's within their existing zoning rights we may not see any renderings until they are ready to market the building to renters.

Just drive by this building this afternoon, and there is a temporary fence around it. Not sure if its a full-blown demo or some renovations, but something is happening to this small building. I hope it's not a First Baptist purchase for more parking... According to DCAD its owned by First Methodist ...

Yeah, I have been watching this one from a nearby office and its been off and on it appears.

They have tried many times. TXDOT is not very open to the maintenance requirements of adding stuff under or around their highways. The city has tried to fund a few beautification projects, but TXDOT always waters it down. Most conversations about those projects die in City Hall when TXDOT swings in ...

Who is gonna write the check for this mindless vertical construction you speak of? It sounds like the usual Mine is a bigger argument that has plagued the urban enthusiasm conversation for decades where height and as many tall towers are the only goals worth pursuing I would gladly take every parkin...

That valet area is fine. It's not like this is an actual public park space here. This will be a heavily secured private lawn. They will end up partnering with Mercedes and park a luxury car on these lawns as a promotional campaign anyways. This is not Main Street Gardens or Kylde Warren this is a pr...

Well Pizza hut/gas station is still very much in operation so I have no idea what stage this project is in and I drive by it every day basically. Its Streetlights Residential and they are the ones who also proposed that 20-story apartment highrise at The Central development off 75 Hwy and Blackburn....

At least until the FAA can successfully try to force program limits on commercially available drones legally. Software with the right sensors could restrict things to a point, which I assumed was already being done to make things self-policing via software. There will always be those who want to try...

The DJing staff issue is a hard one cause its an area not many bar owners to want to pay for. A Video DJ vs a music DJ is two very different skills for sure. Keep in mind Caven has a DJ staff that floats between all their bars and doesn't work for one bar solely usually, but they are always short-st...

That's fair. The things I like about the area are how big the sidewalks are, there's a decent amount of trees, and it feels like they do a good job of calming traffic in the area. It's definitely not connected to the surrounding area at all, so it feels more like a development like Legacy West whic...

They probably barely replaced the wiring for the lights. I bet they updated the fixtures to LED, turned on the power, and called it done. Rewiring all those pinstripes is a massive undertaking and cost. That's miles of wire in a market that has tripled the cost of renovating and building new.

Well, I would say while the renders could be newer, the project is probably dead again. Architects only seem to add renders to their site when a project is completed as an example of success or if not moving past the design stage. The developer usually wants to keep the design/renders in their back ...

The correct question is how high legally is it allowed to go...

They havent done a good job with pedestrian infrastructure though. They gave it lip service in articles but rarely actually address pedestrians and connections between the Arts District and the surrounding area. The major Arts Venues are designed around valet parking for well-heeled attendees, not p...

^correct, but it helps draw traffic from Arts District to Deep Ellum and back and forth cause Maple/Routh goes from Love Field all the way through the gaybourhood, Turtle Creek/Uptown, then on to Arts District large blank space and then finally Deep Ellum. This feels like the seed development to mak...

It's an old guard problem most of gay bar owners have owned them for decades and still believe we live in a world where a gay bar is a GAY BAR where only gay men will come and feel safe in droves. It's the delusion that gay men, and yes, I mean gay men, not gay women, cause that's a demographic that...

At this point, I am surprised she hasn't sold the land for a Luxury Apartment project with at least one more ground-floor restaurant/retail space.

Woooooh why are we claiming this project is dead? This article was published overseas and reprinted and sold here in this paywalled site. They interviewed two people who had doubts for a good reason, as we have long discussed on this thread, but what part proves the project is dead? It's the same in...

Billingsley put One Arts up for sale a while back I think that speaks volumes; plus, keep in mind developers only have so many projects that can float and market at once without being overextended. Sure, you can hire more people, but you only do that if you are sure you have the financing in place t...

Tucy wrote:That can't be true. That property is in the dead zone created by the freeways. No one will ever build anything there.

Gaslighting as its finest.

The problem is that many of the older stock is being renovated and is charging rents just under the price of the new stuff. The property above is being renovated. I believe they are ending leases and deep renovating each unit. I believe the property even has gas appliances that they are changing to ...

^Well, that would be the SoGood development land that Hogue Global previously owned I believe.

In Dallas ⋅ Bishop Arts to Jefferson Blvd ⋅ Deep Ellum/Baylor to Lakewood ⋅ Downtown/Uptown to Cedar Springs/Love Field Outside of Dallas ⋅ Downtown Garland to White Rock Lake ⋅ Downtown Arlington to Cowboys/Globe Life/Texas Live ⋅ Stockyar...

Also depends on the wind sensors, I imagine. They don't wanna shoot that far in the air, and the wind carries most of the water onto the service roads and surprises drivers. Water shot 100 ft in the air and blown onto an unsuspecting car could be problematic. Any fountain like this will have wind re...

They used to have one near UT Arlington, and I was not impressed with the food myself, but I am not a burrito person. The problem is how many of the tenants here are fast causal and how many are sit-down, valet-driven restaurants. We want both types in places like this. Lord knows Downtown will neve...

Drove by this project today, and yes, the fence is wrapped in promotional materials, and there is equipment on site that appears to have just started digging, but I am not sure if they are still cleaning debris, including old foundations. This project will take forever before we see any above-ground...

No a CVS. jk

They found a local business owner not currently on the strip, but it's not a chain and not pizza, tacos, burgers, or Asian food either.

I noticed surveyors today at the corner of Cedar Springs and Throckmorton on the JR's side. Maybe related to work beginning on the two towers behind there. I hope soon. This project is still happening?? I thought it was stalled/rejected or something. Haha no its complicated but Caven Enterprises wh...

I guess you could call this circling the wagons or maybe it's more like crows overhead. As mentioned before they will continue to go for easy fruit aka the well-off suburban spots and will enter the inner city market eventually once they have a stable hold in the DFW market. The inner city grocery m...

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