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The_Overdog

I've heard about this - the deal is this restaurant park and the city have worked hard to restrict drive-thrus from this area (working on the downtown plan for about the last 5 years), and now a coffee business wants to put one back in. I side with the city. The area that restricts drive-thrus is re...

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All the Plano E/W intersections south of Spring Creek are seriously overbuilt for their current traffic counts, so putting an extra 10k cars on Plano Parkway wouldn't be the worst thing. Their N/S ones have uniformly high traffic counts (except for the one adjacent to the mall, Alma), but E/W are pr...

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Run a streetcar from the Collin Creek Residence to Downtown Plano DART station to the pending N Avenue Cotton Belt station. There were lots of questions about this, and the answer was the city of Plano is looking at rubber tire streetcars connecting the redeveloped Collin Creek to downtown 15th str...

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I was able to attend since Collin County is still part of my beat. The plan calls for almost the entire mall area to be raised up to street level, with all the underground being parking. So the 2nd floor of the existing mall will be ground level, with the current first level underground. 3100 apartm...

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It's a bit unusual to see kiosks in a church, but with the number of families that go there, I guess they decided to invest in kiosks rather than pen & paper. I assume there must be some company that makes church check in/check out software, because all the churches we go to for mothers day out...

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The list of artists is pretty good - the only bad thing is the starting ticket price. The location is so-so, and the max ticket prices are irrelevant in my world.

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"I'd argue that the cash buyer is more well-off, as they've been able to generate $300k in cash/assets to put toward buying a home, while the person who now has a mortgage liability against a house with a monthly payment that is mostly going towards interest, insurance, and tax escrow has a sma...

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I went to the unicorn place. The food was not very good and high priced, but it's in the alley entry, so not even really noticeable from the street, so I think Deep Ellum will be ok. The real gentrifer, if you are concerned about that, is the chain buffalo wing restaurant on the street in front of t...

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a small number of parking spaces as required by code (quote from a designer of the expansion)

It'd be funny if someone offered to help them work with zoning to remove the spaces- would save them a ton of money they could use for improving other parts of the park or other philanthropy.

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The idea that the City needs to hire four new employees (two office staff and two enforcement officers) to work full-time monitoring the bikes is absurd. Looks to me like the city was responding to the too many articles written in every news outlet in Dallas, and chose to hinder them. The mayor in ...

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It's odd that an out of town establishment is taking a stab at Tex-Mex food in Texas, though What do you mean by 'out of town'? The first paragraph of the article describes all the other restaurants in Dallas the family owns. It sounds like it will just be painted a bit different, maybe like Pappas...

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mentioned by another forum member the taxing is too high despite being $21. You are right about that. Actually, nearly every suburb in DFW that allows bikeshare has better regulations than Dallas. They should have just copied from them, since many others actually came first. Generally $500 (total) ...

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I went to TreeHouse once. It was a very cool store, but there was very little you could actually purchase on the showroom floor, minus a bunch of home automation stuff like Nest that you can get basically anywhere. Bizarre place. Not surprised it's folding.

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https://golfprop.com/uncategorized/new- ... es-future/

This is a pretty good link describing golf's future.

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I don't play golf, but this PGA thing appears to be a really big deal.

Golf is a dying sport, but it's cool that DFW gets to ride it's corpse to the grave.

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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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It seems really stupid to have to take a bike or walk outside for a meeting on shared suburban campus. Are they saving buxx on a tiny office gym or concerned about their employee's vitamin D intake? Nortel's old campus in the Richardson Telecom corridor was haphazardly designed like that, but that w...

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The problem with the Gap is that is sits between the low end Old Navy and the upper end Banana Republic In my opinion, the problem with The Gap is that their clothes choices for both women and men are dreadful. They stopped making clothes that people could wear to office work so they could chase st...

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My opinion: they seem to be legitimately interested in becoming a 'university' and not just a fancy engineering trade school. I wouldn't be surprised if they had long-term plans (~20 years) to open a more liberal-arts esque college on campus, and this may push them along.

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Crystal City VA is directly west of the Ronald Regan airport and slightly south of The Pentagon. I don't see that being a great location for HQ#2.

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That's why all these places need to turn into legitimate neighborhoods, which probably means big boxy apartments for now, instead of 'party destinations' because you can't expect people from the 'burbs to come down on a random Tuesday and support your local businesses.

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it is very difficult and expensive to build parking underground since you hit limestone after going 10 feet underground. That may be true, but there's a storage unit going up near my home that is currently digging 20+ feet underground, so I think the expense and difficulty of building underground i...

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The one apartment right across from the Flying Fish and Rodeo Goat spots is seven stories. Right, and compare and contrast that to the same restaurants and basically the same layout in Plano at Heritage Creekside on G Bush and Alma - there is a big parking lot next to single family homes, no real i...

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The stores are respectively in Desoto, Ft Worth, FlowerMound, and Coppell. If I'm seeing the map correctly, the only Albertsons stores left in the Dallas side are in Dallas proper. The closing Tom Thumbs are relatively close to one another geographically. After they close, the majority of Tom Thumbs...

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^that's good to hear, in the last decade I've been to five airports so my personal consideration set is inadequate. It's a bit difficult to measure in my opinion, because many other US airports and worldwide are much better located where the inside-airport experience is bad but you can literally wa...

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On the list, above when you break it down by 'market share per store' (kind of a rough metric for brand loyalty/quality of locations chosen), Costco (.47) is of course the king, but WinCo (.37) is doing super great also. WalMart/Sams Club (.21) are growing because their market share per store is wel...

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I think this kind of sucks, but in the grand scheme of things subsidizing 'street vitality' would fall far behind many other things that deserve subsidizing. And if you just want these buildings to choose lower quality commercial renters, well then you have to answer why they should when their resid...

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Right. Laws impacting the publicly funded lines are barely even worth talking about/passing until the initial line has been proven.

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It's too bad the street grid is so bad in that area because more bridges and connective streets would probably be better than a deck park in the mid-term. Also there, just like Klyde Warren, the stupid service roads are way too wide.

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When the politicians see how popular the route is, they will be tripping over themselves to build at least the SAT-DAL part of the triangle. Right. The maps that the state has provided for 2040 include lots of other potential raillines that are most likely state/federally funded. The group building...

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That's just the land use picture used for Planning and Zoning review. They generally don't do renderings for most projects, unless there is something special or different that needs to be shown.

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They look at Frisco with salivation and want that here. This is all on Dallas. Nothing in Frisco has been built with a giant surface lot until you get to nearly Prosper. The most anti-urban thing Frisco has done recently is slightly widen their main street. And the downzoning of US75 to drive-thus ...

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If I can be the contrary voice (oh I can!) I think architecture critics need to sit down and shut up for a while and this guy is no exception. "where the miasma of the mud flats on which the Southern Pacific built its main West Coast train yards has turned into block upon block of indistinguish...

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I thought this was kind of interesting, considering that practically every building being built in DFW is about 50% parking, 50% actual office space. The Granite Park ownership group did a multi-state study of their parking, and as a result are asking for a rezoning to 'right-size' their parking, wh...

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I think what they did (add a mid-grade EIFS front on an existing windowless ugly building) is just fine. They didn't demolish anything and if it's successful it'll get better looking in time.

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The upscale Costco shopper will lead to more police presence and clean up the adjacent area. In the short term, it'll be positive, but I would guess in the long term a Costco a half-mile from a DART station will hold back more intense development.

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they are building now is what the market currently demands, and, in 5-10 years, People are right to be mad because this is not what the market is demanding to be built next to US75 until maybe once you pass Allen. Sure some of this stuff that is already there isn't yet being torn down. But no new i...

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Pretty sure the ones in the suburbs fancy themselves to be noble defenders of Democracy (Agenda 21!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) more than the urban ones. But NIMBYs typically don't want to build anything (it's not Build something sensible in my backyard), so not sure it applies here.

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I think you are overthinking headline writers.

You are probably right, but I had no idea there was a 'rival' to Texas Central, legitimate or otherwise.

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Or like a Star Wars sandcrawler thing. Or like this thing: https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&ei=ImmiW-3IO8rIsQWQ2LmYDg&q=gi+joe+mobile+command+center&oq=gi+joe+mobile+command+&gs_l=psy-ab.3.0.0l4j0i22i30l6.3498.7873..9014...7.0..0.58.1057.24......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j0i67j...

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That article is enlightening and bizarre. When they say 'rival' in the headline, they actually mean rival in the sense that they are also trying to build a high speed rail line in Texas, not the usual sense where the rival is the detractors.

Where did a 'rival' come from? Did I miss something?

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Also apropos of nothing, but I have been traveling through the Telecom Corridor for work for years, and there is more building cleaning, maintenance, and repair crews working on the empty buildings (there are several) than I've ever seen. The owners must either be moving into the 'cutthroat stage' (...

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I was in California most of the summer and went to Fashion Island a few times, and it gets Texas hot there often, just not Texas humid. California just does a much better job than Texas with street trees, awnings and landscaping for their hot weather. For what its worth, Fashion Islands urban design...

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You don’t have to want some big redistributive welfare state to still feel that making it harder for the less fortunate to get by is not a good outcome.

It may not be a morally good outcome, but it is the outcome that nearly every state in the US is going for from a legislative standpoint.

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California is doing fine. "Families with kids and those with only a high school education predominate among those moving from California to its top destination states (Texas, Arizona, and Nevada). College-educated 18 to 35 year olds led the way among those moving to California from its top feed...

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For the site next to Galatyn DART rail station, it may have been mentioned before, but it's confirmed to be a 372 unit multifamily building. The lot is relatively small, maybe 2 acres, so if this has parking it is either going to be kind of tall or have tiny units.

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I really wish the stretch of Addison along Belt Line rd were more walkable. That would be nice, but if you check the residential growth in Addison, it's obvious that Beltline is a divider and most of it is on the north side of Beltline. Beltline is such a strong dividing line that residential growt...

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I am curious how central the so-called park will be for the development vs just a way to offload some land on the side that they think just isn't needed for commercial retail space for this market. I expect more suburban shopping centers will do similar offloading of land in the coming decade Not s...

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Why are churches making developments?

It's actually pretty common. There are probably close to half-dozen church funded/property swap developments in Plano/Frisco/Richardson/Allen.

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Well, technically the corps' approved plan has the three main lakes with a combined total of 256 acres of 'open water' (12-18 feet deep), compared to Bachman lake's 205 acres (less than 14 feet deep). None of the lakes in north Texas are particularly deep either. Lavon's max depth is 60 feet, avera...

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