Arlington Development and Transportation Projects
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Arlington Development and Transportation Projects
Just starting a general Arlington Development and Transportation Projects thread...
Downtown Arlington: Abram Street Project (Cooper to Collins)
Article: http://www.arlington-tx.gov/streetconst ... o-collins/
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Downtown Arlington: Abram Street Project (Cooper to Collins)
Article: http://www.arlington-tx.gov/streetconst ... o-collins/
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New Arlington project will include two hotels
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/busi ... two-hotels
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/busi ... two-hotels
Developers are planning to build a $39.5 million hotel project in south Arlington.
Q Hotels said it will construct the SpringHill Suites and TownePlace Suites hotel in a single building on Interstate 20 near the Parks at Arlington Mall.
Construction on the two Marriott hotels will start at the end of this year.
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Do you happen to know exactly where these hotels are going? Hopefully infilling one of the surface lots at the mall.
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Geographer wrote:Do you happen to know exactly where these hotels are going? Hopefully infilling one of the surface lots at the mall.
Don't know for sure but am thinking that is a likely location.
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UTA to use $125 million, glass-wall building to put 'science on display'
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlingto ... ce-display
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlingto ... ce-display
The university broke ground Oct. 27 on the $125 million Science and Engineering Innovation and Research building, a 220,000 square-foot facility that will bring together several divergent research departments that will be separated only by glass walls.
"This is going to be one way of focusing what we do in bringing together people in the sciences -- biology, bioengineering, computer science, the college of nursing and kinesiology," said Duane Dimos, UTA's vice president for research. "It's really a way to bring all of that research under one roof."
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Rangers, Arlington develop stadium project timeline
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlingto ... t-timeline
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlingto ... t-timeline
The Texas Rangers hope to have an architectural firm hired by the end of the year to design its $1 billion, retractable-roof stadium that Arlington voters approved Nov. 8.
Team representatives and city officials unveiled the timeline during a City Council work session on Tuesday afternoon, according to NBC-5.
The timeline calls for interviews of structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing consultants to begin by the end of the year, and also by that time the city should start the selection process of its financial team to facilitate project financing.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/ ... 1-300.html
General Motors continues to expand the scope of it's operation in Arlington. They're putting together a lot more trucks, and now the loan department is getting bigger with plans to grow even more. Makes you wonder if anything else is planned. If the Tesla battery factory works out, creating a sales advantage for electric vehicles, you can be sure Ford, GM, Toyota, Fiat, Nissan et al will come up with an equivalent. Would be really nice to see Arlington become the source of that product line for General Motors.
$35M GM Financial expansion makes room for 1,300 jobs in Arlington
Nov 30, 2016
Bill Hethcock
Staff Writer Dallas Business Journal
A $35 million expansion at GM Financial’s south Arlington campus will accommodate 1,300 employees being added ... grow its employment base to over 4,000 workers... GM Financial also has 700 employees at its headquarters in downtown Fort Worth ... Today, GM Financial finances one of every three vehicles GM sells, and the company’s goal is to finance half of all autos GM sells in the next few years ... Detroit-based GM has roughly 8,000 employees in Arlington, making it the city’s largest private-sector employer.
General Motors continues to expand the scope of it's operation in Arlington. They're putting together a lot more trucks, and now the loan department is getting bigger with plans to grow even more. Makes you wonder if anything else is planned. If the Tesla battery factory works out, creating a sales advantage for electric vehicles, you can be sure Ford, GM, Toyota, Fiat, Nissan et al will come up with an equivalent. Would be really nice to see Arlington become the source of that product line for General Motors.
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Drove by the Champions Circle development a couple days ago, lots of progress being made including the parking lot, which is huge, I know they have more plans but looks like they are on the back burner since they have pretty much filled the balance of the property with asphalt. Maybe they are going to sell parking spots for games.
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Island homes attracting Cowboys, Rangers to start within $2B Arlington community
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/ ... j=76730641
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/ ... j=76730641
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I have to say, I am surprised they are selling these homes as quick as they are. I have been to this community, and while Viridian is a beautiful community it is literally surrounded by undesirables. Across the street is a major landfill with big trucks zooming in and out every minute, just north of the community the first thing you run into is a strip club and major industrial buildings. If you go South you're obviously in North Arlington which hasn't aged well. Lots of run down strip shopping centers and aging apartments. IMO there's very little to be desired about this area.
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^I have the same feeling about it and yet it seems to thrive. Very curious, and the home prices are not cheap either.
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Kelley USA wrote:I have to say, I am surprised they are selling these homes as quick as they are. I have been to this community, and while Viridian is a beautiful community it is literally surrounded by undesirables. Across the street is a major landfill with big trucks zooming in and out every minute, just north of the community the first thing you run into is a strip club and major industrial buildings. If you go South you're obviously in North Arlington which hasn't aged well. Lots of run down strip shopping centers and aging apartments. IMO there's very little to be desired about this area.
But, I thought you said there was a strip club nearby?
Kidding aside, I agree with y'all. I too looked at this area a couple years ago. I believe the sheer size of Viridian iteslf allows it to create it's own momentum. The build quality seems decent too... There aren't many other places in Arlington you could say that about.
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DR Horton appears to be nearly complete. The signage went up in the past week so they must be getting close.
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UPS will add more than 1,000 jobs at new Arlington distribution center
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/real ... ion-center
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/real ... ion-center
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GM to expand in Arlington with two facilities totaling 1.2M square feet
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/ ... ngton.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/ ... ngton.html
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GM to add 850 new jobs in Arlington via supplier park
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/ ... plier.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/ ... plier.html
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I don't know if anybody even noticed that this supplier park for GM is sitting on the now destroyed six flags mall site.
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Seems like this is a massive change to the drive chain of auto manufacturing....
Is this happening all along the Texas-Mexico corridor?
Perhaps North Texas political muckety-mucks can usurp the national NAFTA talks.... pull the most of the meetings to the Bush Library...
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas- ... conference
Rawlings and Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price have invited Toronto Mayor John Tory, Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, Mexico City Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera and Monterrey, Mexico, Mayor Adrian De la Garza Santos to the summit. The cities and regions those mayors represent are North Texas' largest international trade partners.
I guess the mayors might not get together, but probably the will... I'm certain there are tweaks to NAFTA that can benefit the North American partners, especially with regard to the (temporarily?) canceled Pacific Rim trade agreement....
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Warm-cookie delivery shop opening at Champions Park in north Arlington
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local ... 04558.html
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local ... 04558.html
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Arlington ranks No. 1 in economic development deals
http://www.theshorthorn.com/news/arling ... 1fd99.html
http://www.theshorthorn.com/news/arling ... 1fd99.html
The total value of Arlington’s 2016 deals submitted to the magazine was $1.55 billion. Plano Economic Development ranked No. 2 for having $675.42 million in deals.
The city's submission included seven projects: the new Texas Rangers ballpark, Texas Live!, Summit Racing, Champions Park, Arlington Chamber of Commerce Building E, Liv+ Arlington apartments and Southwest Restaurant.
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As work speeds up, traffic will slow down near new Rangers stadium
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlingt ... rs-stadium
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlingt ... rs-stadium
Beginning Aug. 3, getting to Globe Life Park and finding parking might take a little more time.
As the Rangers begin utility work on their new retractable-roof stadium, portions of Nolan Ryan Expressway as well as the remainder of Parking Lot A and a section of Parking Lot B will be closed to facilitate that work.
More closures will happen in September when ballpark excavation work is expected to begin, said John Blake, the Rangers' executive vice president of communications.
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Texas Rangers secure $600 million loan for new Arlington ballpark, city re-financing Dallas Cowboys bonds
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... on-stadium
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news ... j=78818051
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... on-stadium
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news ... j=78818051
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Tnexster wrote:Texas Rangers secure $600 million loan for new Arlington ballpark, city re-financing Dallas Cowboys bonds
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... on-stadium
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news ... j=78818051
Lol Arlington paying $500 million. The A's just announced their new, privately-financed stadium site next to the Oakland equivalent of a downtown-adjacent White Rock Lake. It's going to cost $500 million.
The alternative to cities shelling out half of the money for a billion dollar ballpark isn't no ballpark.. it's a ballpark that costs half as much.
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New hotel project on the way near Arlington's AT&T Stadium
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... tt-stadium
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... tt-stadium
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When is Cowboys Stadium going to host another superbowl?
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All the Super Bowls are spoken for through 2023, so I heard on the radio in the last week. No new football stadiums are planned to debut after that, so the usual warm-weather ones that have been host in the past will likely have (or want) some prominence. There's really no telling when Jerry can stick his nose in, in between all of them. Plus, it's only been very recently that the last of the suits regarding the 2011 Super Bowl seating mess were settled (per the same radio show I heard) and Jerry couldn't think of putting the monstrosity into consideration until after that.
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Hopefully Jerry will have taken on an emeritus roll before 2023...
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Plus, Arlington still has work to do IMO about hotels and other related issues, getting people around more efficiently (ummm, hinthint), and being more connective with the neighbors besides with highways. Hopefully the I-30/TX 360 interchange redo will be done before then. Maybe the Texas Live thing will help, but really that's only a start.
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^I know that's right. The next North Texas entry could very well leave everyone out except for Dallas and Arlington. One key learning is spreading events across any large population center is a bad idea.
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Texas Live — still a maze of concrete next to Rangers' new ballpark — sets ambitious summer opening
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlingt ... er-opening
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlingt ... er-opening
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Tnexster wrote:Texas Live — still a maze of concrete next to Rangers' new ballpark — sets ambitious summer opening
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlingt ... er-opening
Side note... I don't know what the attendance was for yesterday evening's game, but that place was a ghost town. It was quite depressing to see on TV... even more so when you consider that it was an evening game and didn't have work or school to compete with.
Yikes!
My work is going to the game today... Hopefully it's not as bad. Best of luck to the new stadium.
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muncien wrote:Tnexster wrote:Texas Live — still a maze of concrete next to Rangers' new ballpark — sets ambitious summer opening
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlingt ... er-opening
Side note... I don't know what the attendance was for yesterday evening's game, but that place was a ghost town. It was quite depressing to see on TV... even more so when you consider that it was an evening game and didn't have work or school to compete with.
Yikes!
My work is going to the game today... Hopefully it's not as bad. Best of luck to the new stadium.
They claim 18,634 for yesterday. Not sure if that's "paid attendance" or "actual attendance"
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Construction complete on first phase of Arlington Commons redevelopment
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... evelopment
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... evelopment
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Check out what Rangers' new stadium will look like in latest unveiled model
https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/texas- ... iled-model
https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/texas- ... iled-model
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Apparently the new fake NFL (XFL or whatever) is going to take over the old Rangers Stadium in 2020 - so I guess plans to demolish it are on hold at least until 2021.
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https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/XFL-Dallas-Team-to-Call-Arlingtons-Globe-Life-Park-Home-501997901.html
Exactly what will happen to Globe Life Park after the Rangers move to their new stadium in April 2020 is becoming a little more clear. The old ball park will be home to a new football team -- an unnamed Dallas-area XFL franchise...
...Those cities are Dallas (Arlington), Houston, Los Angeles, New York, St. Louis, Seattle, Tampa Bay and Washington D.C...
...The XFL's initial eight teams will have 45 players on each roster playing a 10-game schedule. The postseason will consist of two semifinal playoff games and a championship game.
That's a short season of play for Globe Life Park but Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams said Wednesday, “Today’s XFL announcement is one of many ways the City plans to deliver on its promise to reinvent Globe Life Park. The XFL will be the first of many announcements about the repurposing of our iconic venue that will have a new, long life in Arlington after Globe Life Field opens in 2020.”
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The_Overdog wrote:Apparently the new fake NFL (XFL or whatever) is going to take over the old Rangers Stadium in 2020 - so I guess plans to demolish it are on hold at least until 2021.
We have to go through yet another new football thing again? Seriously?
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Arlington set to vote on another massive $550 million Loews hotel and convention center
The Loews hotel will have 888 rooms, a convention center space, a skybridge to connect to Texas Live! and the existing Live! by Loews hotel, plus the developers want to add mixed-use spaces elsewhere in the vicinity of the old and new ballparks. Completion timeline is 2023, if the city says yes to the proposal.
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/real ... on-center/
The Loews hotel will have 888 rooms, a convention center space, a skybridge to connect to Texas Live! and the existing Live! by Loews hotel, plus the developers want to add mixed-use spaces elsewhere in the vicinity of the old and new ballparks. Completion timeline is 2023, if the city says yes to the proposal.
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/real ... on-center/
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Don't they already have a convention center in the same area? Is Arlington run by the Deadly Duplicator who gives 2 of everything even though two of some things is too many and two of other things is not enough.
Whatever. I'm glad they are building *something* around the stadiums besides parking lots.
Whatever. I'm glad they are building *something* around the stadiums besides parking lots.
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There is the longtime convention center property north of the ballparks, but in recent years has been largely given over to an eSports operation. I haven't read/heard how things have gone since that started. I don't really understand why the city would completely/largely give up a convention space they could market as an alternative to Dallas, Fort Worth, or any of the other suburbs. I guess now this new spot will get them back into the regional list of convention/meeting options.
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I remember Mayor Cluck talking about this project years ago, I guess they are finally trying to move it forward. IF they can pull all these pieces together they might have something good here.
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Yeah, the city gave up on the Convention Center with the ESports venture which to me sounded like a good option. I guess Loews thinks they can do better with two connected hotels since the old convention center was also an island without much ever developed around it besides the old Sheraton. Largely because of Convention Centers don't cause additional development cities basically have to force development that eventually feeds off each other.
Also, this is probably smart because Texas Live is popular but without more ancillary development it will again just be an island to itself even though its surrounded by three stadiums.
Also, this is probably smart because Texas Live is popular but without more ancillary development it will again just be an island to itself even though its surrounded by three stadiums.
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Also, because being invited to a convention in Arlington is like being invited to a Mormon frat party.
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Me: Arlington may have the worst City Plan I've ever seen..
Mesquite:..ahem...
Mesquite:..ahem...
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You should meet the people that work in City Hall along with the students at the nearby architecture school at UT Arlington. Both are constantly trying to make good things happen despite the hardcore group of residents who basically attack any planning related project that doesn't include making parking lots bigger and fund more stadiums!!!! The politicians that usually win elections are also amused by anyone that tells them to do anything other than bigger highways more roads, more drive-thrus. I once heard a resident rant on how back in the day Downtown Arlington was surrounded by open land for miles around as an argument against bike share lanes.? Some cities just stay the same for a reason.
I lived in Arlington for a few years while attending UT Arlington and it will always be nothing more than one big parking lot. I am glad to see some sort of denser like development trying to happen around GlobeLife and the new Texas Rangers Ballpark. Lord knows in Downtown Arlington things move forward and step back usually in the same stride.
I lived in Arlington for a few years while attending UT Arlington and it will always be nothing more than one big parking lot. I am glad to see some sort of denser like development trying to happen around GlobeLife and the new Texas Rangers Ballpark. Lord knows in Downtown Arlington things move forward and step back usually in the same stride.
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”
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Arlington approves plan for new convention center, ambitious entertainment district development
Developers could break ground as early as 2020 on the new hotel, convention center, office and residential projects.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... velopment/
Developers could break ground as early as 2020 on the new hotel, convention center, office and residential projects.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... velopment/
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Apparently they are going to plant like 10X the current number of trees, and it's still going to be mostly parking lots. I'm also getting a whiff of Fair Park, with a big locked up useless old stadium in the way.
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Hey the XFL franchise will be there...probably a YFL team as well oh and I heard ZFL is coming.
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I think this area/development is going to be awesome. I've not seen another example of an old stadium being repurposed like this, very creative!