Tnexster wrote:Anybody know what the third tower is supposed to be?
Haven't a clue. Has anyone seen any description of this phantom third tower? I've only read a reference that there is one, but that's it.
Tnexster wrote:Anybody know what the third tower is supposed to be?
R1070 wrote:A good sized crane is up on the site.
Tnexster wrote:R1070 wrote:A good sized crane is up on the site.
Got a chance to see that today, it does stand up pretty high, much taller than Virgin but helps give some perspective on the placement.
cowboyeagle05 wrote:I think they are building a garage across the entire property so it will be fewer floors and low compared to the big podiums we normally see where you stack 5 floors of parking then a tower on top. Big booty high-rises I call them. This one will more easily blend I think because its spread out across the property rather than trying to compact the parkin underneath the tower.
rono3849 wrote:cowboyeagle05 wrote:I think they are building a garage across the entire property so it will be fewer floors and low compared to the big podiums we normally see where you stack 5 floors of parking then a tower on top. Big booty high-rises I call them. This one will more easily blend I think because its spread out across the property rather than trying to compact the parkin underneath the tower.
I find the obsession over garages to be odd. They are necessary in an automobile centric city like Dallas. I'd rather have them over the fields of surface lots that plague the Eastern side of Downtown Dallas & along the Field Street corridor. Houston, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, & Charlotte are just some of the other cities that incorporate garages into individual buildings.
R1070 wrote:Where will the self driving cars go then?
myelbow4 wrote:Not everyone will have their own personal car. The cars will just be driving around on stand by to pick up passengers.
Hannibal Lecter wrote:So your alternative to cars sitting in parking spaces is that they're driving around in circles on the streets?
cowboyeagle05 wrote:Well what I would point out is people have been expecting self driving flying cars since the 50's. I am all about reducing car dependence and the structures that support its addictive and macabre culture but we still are miles from it taking over and changing the culture enough to make parking garages a historical artifact. Yeah the technology is impressive and can do more than the public is willing to feel comfortable with but a lot of kinks have yet to be worked out to make widescale depletion of personal vehicles a fashionable trend. We would better to promote sidewalks, trails, and transit along with Uber/Lyft. Parking garages will be here for another two decades at min. Just put them underground more so we don't have to look at these ugly podium towers developers keep applauding themselves for.
The_Overdog wrote:Get rid of the need for new personal storage buildings, and a solid 25% of the new development in DFW (and most of the rest of the US) will disappear.
Urbancowboy wrote:The Design District is going to be the "next hot district" along with the EQ
Roman_Patrick wrote:Great question and I am honestly not 100% sure, but I believe the tower you see under construction (above ground) is the left tower in the rendering, and the second tower is slowly making its way above ground now which is the right tower in the rendering. Feel free to correct me!
willyk wrote:I want these towers to be successful. But is it just me, or is this an incredibly aggressive move to develop two residential towers at once in a neighborhood with none?
willyk wrote:I want these towers to be successful. But is it just me, or is this an incredibly aggressive move to develop two residential towers at once in a neighborhood with none?
R1070 wrote:Isn’t it just one tower and a parking garage going up right now?
Tnexster wrote:I thought it was just one tower now and one later.