Downtown Dallas: City Lights

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby kingpin » 08 Nov 2019 14:40

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby Hannibal Lecter » 08 Nov 2019 23:01

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

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby Tnexster » 09 Jan 2020 21:11

Driving around downtown today and happened to find myself looking right at this tower. Haven't really appreciated how much of an impact this building has on the east side of 345.

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby homeworld1031tx » 09 Jan 2020 23:13

Hannibal Lecter wrote: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 that anything above the first floor was inaccessible due to the ramps being destroyed.

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby Tivo_Kenevil » 10 Jan 2020 00:18

Tnexster wrote:Driving around downtown today and happened to find myself looking right at this tower. Haven't really appreciated how much of an impact this building has on the east side of 345.

This has got the be the slowest building project from the last 3 yrs

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Postby Tnexster » 10 Jan 2020 07:57

Tivo_Kenevil wrote:
Tnexster wrote:Driving around downtown today and happened to find myself looking right at this tower. Haven't really appreciated how much of an impact this building has on the east side of 345.

This has got the be the slowest building project from the last 3 yrs


It does seem slow, although they did have that delay added to the process which didn't help.

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby Hannibal Lecter » 10 Jan 2020 10:52

homeworld1031tx wrote: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 that anything above the first floor was inaccessible due to the ramps being destroyed.


They brought in two of the largest mobile cranes I've ever seen.

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby dd_dweller » 14 Jan 2020 12:17

Any updates on the Elan City Lights building? Are they going to fix it or tear it down?

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Postby Tnexster » 06 Feb 2020 08:42

Nice...been waiting for this curved facade to take shape.

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Postby maconahey » 17 Feb 2020 15:16

The brick looks really nice in person

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Postby mdg109 » 19 May 2020 13:57

I hadn't realized this project was so big. Sidewalks are fairly decent on Live Oak, but they do get really narrow towards the entrance.
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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby homeworld1031tx » 19 May 2020 15:45

Never though I'd see the day... This one has been in the makings for such a long time.

Glad it's finally almost there. Shame that we're losing the density from the Elan dev next door.

Any news on what is to come of that building? I'm really hoping they only knock down a portion of it so that they can gain access to the garage and repair it. Realistically, they could actually knock down the garage and damage residential wing of the building and then having enough ground level parking to serve the rest of the building. That would of course not be ideal but it's certainly better than nothing...

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby Mr. Amsterdam » 20 May 2020 14:04

It's built like a fortress.
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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby dzh » 20 May 2020 16:05

Does anyone know what the zoning allows for the site where the crane fell? I understand that this is a sensitive subject, but I really hope they build a great mixed-use project...or something along those lines on that site.

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby dd_dweller » 20 May 2020 16:09

It doesn’t seem like any work is being done on the Elan City Lights building.

Does anyone know when they plan on opening the Tom Thumb?

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby dallaz » 24 Jun 2020 23:49

Tom Thumb to open on the street level of a 14-story apartment building this fall

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/ret ... this-fall/

A long-awaited Tom Thumb supermarket just east of downtown Dallas plans to open this fall on the ground floor of a new 14-story apartment building.

The 56,000-square-foot supermarket will be on the street level of the Gabriella, a 378-unit apartment building scheduled to open this summer and that has started leasing its one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.

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Postby cowboyeagle05 » 25 Jun 2020 09:44

To sit back and think about how desperate the city was for a grocery store of a decent size anywhere close to the CBD 20yrs ago. The Neighborhood Walmart and former Albertson's in the West Village being the only two options back then. Now we have Tom Thumb almost in Deep Ellum, a Tom Thumb in Uptown, Whole Foods, an announced Kroger at Hall street and a Kroger at Haskell. If you include the two Royal Blue stores as semi-grocery options for CBD its nice to see so some options sprout up in different directions. Still what everyone is waiting for is a CBD play for groceries.
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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby dd_dweller » 11 Sep 2020 20:39

Has there been an update as to when the Tom Thumb is going to open? It looks nearly completed.

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Postby willyk » 15 Sep 2020 06:25

cowboyeagle05 wrote:To sit back and think about how desperate the city was for a grocery store of a decent size anywhere close to the CBD 20yrs ago. The Neighborhood Walmart and former Albertson's in the West Village being the only two options back then. Now we have Tom Thumb almost in Deep Ellum, a Tom Thumb in Uptown, Whole Foods, an announced Kroger at Hall street and a Kroger at Haskell. If you include the two Royal Blue stores as semi-grocery options for CBD its nice to see so some options sprout up in different directions. Still what everyone is waiting for is a CBD play for groceries.


Love to see a Central Market and a TJ,s. Perfect demographics.

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby tamtagon » 15 Sep 2020 06:56

Just imagine how great the array of grocery and household retail will become as the population increases. It's all about heads in beds....

Double the downtown area residential population!

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Postby Warrior2015 » 01 Oct 2020 15:37

Store should be opening first week of November.

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby mdg109 » 01 Oct 2020 17:40

Awesome. Anyone have an update on the damaged property next door?

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby Tivo_Kenevil » 13 Apr 2021 00:14

mdg109 wrote:Awesome. Anyone have an update on the damaged property next door?

I forget about that accident. Any word ??

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby Bategeler » 15 Apr 2021 23:30

Tivo_Kenevil wrote:
mdg109 wrote:Awesome. Anyone have an update on the damaged property next door?

I forget about that accident. Any word ??
I drive by this weekly, still looks abandoned with construction fencing up around the building. The road between the 2 phases is open now though.

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby R1070 » 16 Apr 2021 12:29

I could see this being re-built as a bigger project now that Tom Thumb is open next door.

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby I45Tex » 16 Apr 2021 19:35

Seems like more than 15 years ago, the initial renderings online did include a nice tower. CTroy may have saved the jpeg.

Edit: from the DMN in the original post:

"When City Lights was first proposed back in 2004, it was planned with a grocery store, high-rise apartments and retail. The project was delayed during the recession and went through bankruptcy, sale and a redesign before Greystar started construction.
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Greystar just [2017] completed a 23-story, 302-unit apartment tower in Dallas' Victory Park."

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Postby CTroyMathis » 25 Apr 2021 20:06

There was one indeed ^. And, another even much older.
I can check the ol' archives.

Also, ***Elan City Lights update*** :

https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/ ... 2021013959

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Postby undefinedprocess » 27 Apr 2021 12:15

CTroyMathis wrote:There was one indeed ^. And, another even much older.
I can check the ol' archives.

Also, ***Elan City Lights update*** :

https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/ ... 2021013959

So based on that link, looks like repair work will begin in July, continuing until the end of 2022?
Surprised the whole thing isn't going to be torn down.

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Postby willyk » 27 Apr 2021 17:54

Don’t see how they could afford to tear it down unless insurance declared it a total loss. Maybe that was the delay, a dispute with insurance over whether it is repairable.

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Postby myelbow4 » 27 Apr 2021 18:08

30 million dollars to repair that. It's kind of an ugly building. They should put something else there or just tear down the damaged part and build something more interesting.

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Postby homeworld1031tx » 14 Sep 2021 20:05

DMN wrote:More than two years after a construction crane collapsed into an Old East Dallas apartment complex, the owners of the building say they have begun rebuilding the property.

One resident, 29-year-old Kiersten Smith, died in the June 9, 2019, collapse, and five other people were injured.

Hundreds of residents of the Elan City Lights apartments were displaced, causing confusion and frustration in following months as they tried to reclaim their property and find new places to stay.


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Postby itsjrd1964 » 29 Apr 2023 13:40

In recent weeks, while commuting for a new job, I've noticed a different name there: Oak & Ellum (instead of Elan City Lights). IDK how long it's been since the name was changed.

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Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights

Postby Tnexster » 18 Jan 2024 16:46

Lenders seek to foreclose on Dallas apartment tower
East Dallas high-rise was funded with $127 million mortgage from New York lender.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... ent-tower/