Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum

Tivo_Kenevil wrote:Another residential tower will block this blank wall ...so whatevs.

THRILLHO wrote:Like this Toy Story hotel
https://twitter.com/tdrexplorer/status/1403238096444051456?s=20

quixomniac wrote:

Tivo_Kenevil wrote:Another residential tower will block this blank wall ...so whatevs.

Do you have any insider information about the Bomb Factory being tore down and replaced with a 20+ story building? Because anything short of that will not cover up the blank wall. Any residential tower that is built will still be facing an ugly parking garage wall. Adam hats residents may attest to that. It will always be visible from other angles.

In any other neighborhood i would let it slide, but not Deep Ellum. A lot of downtown parking garages have BEAUTIFUL parking garage murals. The composer/orchestra one near the Arts district or the whale mural come to mind. A great mural would go long ways to buy good will in Deep Ellum. They’ve already done good things, lets go for great.

THRILLHO wrote:Like this Toy Story hotel
https://twitter.com/tdrexplorer/status/1403238096444051456?s=20

Exactly! I made quick mockup on my iPad. Painting it blue makes it look like the stack is floating in the sky. The window frames popping out makes it look surrealistic.
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Deep Ellum office tower lands insurance company tenant

Bestow, a digital life insurance firm based in Dallas, has taken 42,000 square feet of offices in the building located just east of downtown Dallas.

The building has 15,000 square feet of ground floor retail space and more than 210,000 square feet of offices.

tamtagon wrote:Downtown need a hardware store.

Cmacemm wrote:

tamtagon wrote:Downtown need a hardware store.

We have an "urban" Home Depot here in Chicago. It's not in downtown, but something similar would be cool in the CBD

Tivo_Kenevil wrote:

Cmacemm wrote:

tamtagon wrote:Downtown need a hardware store.

We have an "urban" Home Depot here in Chicago. It's not in downtown, but something similar would be cool in the CBD

There's really no need for a hardware store in Downton IMO. There's plenty of big box hardware places in driving distance. Lowe's off 30, Home depot off Ft Worth Ave. And the old Home depot that get demolished by the tornado on 75 and royal (assuming it comes back).

I'd much rather have other residential and other retail in downtown. Now a downtown Target express would be great..

cowboyeagle05 wrote:Also don't forget the Lowes and Home Depot on Lemmon Ave which is easily accessible from places like Uptown/Downtown with a car and yes by bus if you really really wanna get there that way.

When Downtown has the rooftops to support a true grocery store inside the CBD maybe we will see other retailers follow but for now Tom Thumb in Deep Ellum and Uptown are soaking up that market need. Not to mention I would love to see someone get on a DART bus with a 2x4 lol.

I think for now I hear more demands from my friends for a urban HEB and that topic we go back and fourth on how realistic that is.

Tivo_Kenevil wrote:
And the old Home depot that get demolished by the tornado on 75 and royal (assuming it comes back).

tamtagon wrote:That combination is almost a Fortune 500 company....

cowboyeagle05 wrote:Since I avoid Deep Ellum like the plague since all I see are gunshot reports and fights on my citizen app, does the ground floor have tenants?

cowboyeagle05 wrote:Since I avoid Deep Ellum like the plague since all I see are gunshot reports and fights on my citizen app, does the ground floor have tenants?

LongonBigD wrote:It’s been a while, but someone mentioned this building on another tread. I was in the area today. I just hate the height of the garage portion of this building. Clearly the developer gave some thought to this in the design stage as well since they tried to disguise it. This disguise would have worked so much better if they had just spent a few dollars more and painted the exposed concrete slabs in the fake windows black.