The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

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The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby dd_dweller » 19 May 2020 18:17

http://theswisstower.com/aerial_views.php

This showed up on the Deep Ellum fb thread.

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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby Matt777 » 19 May 2020 19:38

dd_dweller wrote:http://theswisstower.com/aerial_views.php

This showed up on the Deep Ellum fb thread.


Wouldn't the proposed D2 line go straight through this? I believe the tunnel portal would be right on this site. The renderings show the current DART station that will be removed, so I don't think this is recent or accurate.

I'm all in favor of covering the tunnel portal with a high density development, but the fake historic base of that tower is atrocious and the surface parking lot is even more atrocious.

There are misspellings on the page including "arial views" so hopefully this is just an amateur's project or something.

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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby tamtagon » 19 May 2020 20:14

^hahaha the typos and mission statement about prestigious living... for some reason I was just reminded of a thread on the old forum...

Does anyone else remember the Turtle Creek luxury report?

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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby Matt777 » 19 May 2020 21:25

tamtagon wrote:^hahaha the typos and mission statement about prestigious living... for some reason I was just reminded of a thread on the old forum...

Does anyone else remember the Turtle Creek luxury report?


Was that the Rosewood character? Oh wow, that was so long ago.... I think I was still a teenager when I started reading that junk.

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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby exelone31 » 20 May 2020 08:29

It would be fine IMO if they just built out the faux-historic piece to match the existing Lizard Lounge building, but adding the completely contrasting tower on top of it looks really bad. Very theme park-y.

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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby cowboyeagle05 » 20 May 2020 09:10

Well, there are some recent LLCs registered under the name of the tower name and the development in general. Also just cause DART plans to go there doesn't mean a developer cant build first and DART would have to adapt their plans. Also, Lizard Lounge was already planning to shut down. I wouldn't be surprised that they have been told that the owner of the land was talking with developers about possibly building on the site. Uber already claimed before the pandemic that they were given an option on the site for another phase if needed. Mind you COVID-19 has muddled a lot of plans and sure did close Lizard Lounge faster than they anticipated.
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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby Kelley USA » 20 May 2020 09:35

Matt777 wrote:
tamtagon wrote:^hahaha the typos and mission statement about prestigious living... for some reason I was just reminded of a thread on the old forum...

Does anyone else remember the Turtle Creek luxury report?


Was that the Rosewood character? Oh wow, that was so long ago.... I think I was still a teenager when I started reading that junk.


WOW, talk about a flashback! Yes, it was definitely Rosewood. The old forum was a crazy place back in the day!

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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby ContriveDallasite » 20 May 2020 10:19

Slight throwback, but does anyone else remember the flaming character that lived in 1900 McKinney?

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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby eburress » 20 May 2020 11:55

I certainly remember 1999 McKinney! lol

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Postby rono3849 » 20 May 2020 13:49

Swiss.Tower.DeepEllum.jpg


So the Lizard Lounge would remain? Now I understand the owners comments about announcing a new chapter.
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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby eburress » 20 May 2020 14:10

I love the scale and location of the tower (especially if D2 passes underneath) but not the odd mix of styles. It's like somebody plopped an early 2000s Miami residential tower onto the Ballpark in Arlington.

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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby cowboyeagle05 » 20 May 2020 14:54

From the way I look at it, I wouldn't say the Lizard Louge would remain in operation just the building. My understanding is that the operators of Lizard were looking at new sites in less than a popular area cause they read the writing on the wall. Lizard worked cause it was in an obscure area. A nighttime EDM/concert venue would have not worked pushed up against a luxury apartment tower. I imagine they were just keeping the building for some sort of historical play maybe turn into a restaurant/bar that matches with the area's growth.
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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby MC_ScattCat » 20 May 2020 15:28

Why does the site say copyright 2016?

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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby CTroyMathis » 20 May 2020 15:43

So the site was founded in 2016. That youtube video went live 2017. The Greenville Ave office address is nowhere. The Energy Square address does check as Nationsgas Partners and matches a name, although whatever.

Classification likeliness: Project Fun (added bonus: spelling and labeling ftw)

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https://whois.domaintools.com/theswisstower.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oan3HYRdqLQ
https://web.archive.org/web/20180807223 ... tower.com/ 2018 snapshot
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Re: The Swiss Tower/Lizard Lounge

Postby MC_ScattCat » 21 May 2020 13:19

so basically this is never being built then haha