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Dallas' award-winning Old Parkland redevelopment on Maple Avenue is growing with plans for another building.
The 9.5-acre business campus developed by Crow Holdings includes two historic buildings and six offices added since 2011.
The Old Parkland campus is home to more than 100 companies, including financial and investment firms, family offices and public foundations.
The three newest office buildings at the corporate enclave opened in late 2015 with classical-style architecture.
Crow Holdings wants to add a final office building at the far north end of the project.
The 96,000-square-foot office development will be between Maple Avenue and Dallas North Tollway, just south of Knight Street, according to plans filed with the city. The project will include six floors on top of a parking garage.

joshua.dodd wrote:I like it. Feels like there is a trend to go back to older styles without the postmodern cheese.

mdg109 wrote:I've driven through Oak Lawn so many times and never even noticed this development.

tanzoak wrote:

joshua.dodd wrote:I like it. Feels like there is a trend to go back to older styles without the postmodern cheese.

The only cheese here is from the faux Ye Olde Times aesthetic, fully equipped with neo-neo-classical statues just in case you were unsure.

eburress wrote:

tanzoak wrote:

joshua.dodd wrote:I like it. Feels like there is a trend to go back to older styles without the postmodern cheese.

The only cheese here is from the faux Ye Olde Times aesthetic, fully equipped with neo-neo-classical statues just in case you were unsure.

I think you're the only one who doesn't like it. Everybody seems pretty impressed. haha

dukemeredith wrote:What alternatives do they have? Should they build something modern, with glass and metal, to contrast with the existing buildings? I think building something the size and design of the new Rolex building would be more offensive.

Isn't there something to be said about architectural cohesion? Can no one on this forum be happy?!

Harlan Crow moved his family’s construction and real estate business to the old Parkland Hospital campus off Maple Avenue nine years ago because he loved the classic, dark ruby brick building.

He’s since added non-profit and commercial tenants. The newest buildings are faithful to early American, Jeffersonian architecture of oak, brick and marble. Crow’s company builds a lot of modern structures, but he loves this style.

“I wouldn’t want the whole city to be -- whole world -- to be like this,” Crow says. "But neither do I want the whole world to be reflective glass and chrome.”

Crow calls this part of the campus The American Experiment. Statues of de Tocqueville, Ben Franklin and others mix with Greek columns and engraved ancient Roman and Greek quotes.

We have so few public landmarks of this nature in Dallas.

cowboyeagle05 wrote:I am fine with them building the tower but why are they just adding gaudier tower for what appears to be no reason? Like even its location on the site seems kinda thrown in like some sort of Sim City throw-in. Did they get a new Dallas Money expansion pack?

exelone31 wrote:I may be in the minority, but I would gladly take these faux historic buildings over a generic wall of apartments.

cowboyeagle05 wrote:Well, it is Oak Lawn so they picked the right place to build a palace to the phallic intrigued.

rono3849 wrote:Most towers are phallic. Big Ben in London, Eiffel Tower in Paris, Empire State Building in New York, Oscar Meyer Weinermobile in Chicago. LOL.

eburress wrote:People will complain about anything.

itsjrd1964 wrote:If it's going to be a clock tower, there needs to be more 'clock' instead of 85-95% being the tower, IMO.

itsjrd1964 wrote:If it's going to be a clock tower, there needs to be more 'clock' instead of 85-95% being the tower, IMO.

A Dallas real estate developer is giving the first look at an ambitious plan to repurpose the former Parkland Hospital campus northwest of downtown Dallas.

Property company EB Arrow has teamed up with architect Gensler to draw up proposals for the 40-acre Parkland site at Harry Hines Boulevard and Medical District Drive.

The plan is to convert the empty buildings and add new construction to create a medical-oriented mixed-use development. Many of the existing, vacant hospital buildings would be demolished to make way for the new construction, according to details of the proposal.

joshua.dodd wrote:I like it. Not sure where all the hate is coming from. Compared to the garbage going up everywhere, this is refreshing.

Zmitz wrote:https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2020/03/03/massive-redevelopment-would-replace-former-parkland-campus/

A Dallas real estate developer is giving the first look at an ambitious plan to repurpose the former Parkland Hospital campus northwest of downtown Dallas.

Property company EB Arrow has teamed up with architect Gensler to draw up proposals for the 40-acre Parkland site at Harry Hines Boulevard and Medical District Drive.

The plan is to convert the empty buildings and add new construction to create a medical-oriented mixed-use development. Many of the existing, vacant hospital buildings would be demolished to make way for the new construction, according to details of the proposal.

Zmitz wrote:https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2020/03/03/massive-redevelopment-would-replace-former-parkland-campus/

A Dallas real estate developer is giving the first look at an ambitious plan to repurpose the former Parkland Hospital campus northwest of downtown Dallas.

Property company EB Arrow has teamed up with architect Gensler to draw up proposals for the 40-acre Parkland site at Harry Hines Boulevard and Medical District Drive.

The plan is to convert the empty buildings and add new construction to create a medical-oriented mixed-use development. Many of the existing, vacant hospital buildings would be the demolished to make way for the new construction, according to details of the proposal.