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I45Tex

Thanks for that reference jsoto, and really great ideas lakewoodhobo and Troy. Please be gentle on me for a dumb one... but if I were Spire, I mean, these folks are top 1% and do have a lot of clout within their network even if they've recently been farther from hitting it out of the park or getting...

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But seriously, I agree w/ Hwulivn. Good concept system, tamtagon. Trying to think of a suggestion to build further on it...

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But they have renderings showing people shopping and living their best life!!! No, pretty sure that was Robert Jeffress and Joel Osteen, not Spire and Valley View. 8-) "I asked a painter why the roads are colored black He said, 'Steve, it's because people leave, and no highway will bring them ...

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Most of life is small ball, tanzoak. I guess you'll (?) just as often as you like, but it's the same way I wouldn't base a business in a state that embraces casinos -- show enough citizens that it's better to be lucky or networked than good, and long-term that's the kind of locale you will build. Th...

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While I do in fact think we highly overestimate the attractiveness of North Texas to young people when comparing the probable top of our longterm growth lifecycle to the near-trough of Chicago's or LA's, that's truly for some other thread. What I was "trying to argue" is that a city that t...

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I concur, except that it's not a mere matter of whether this firm's practices deserve incentive packages, Whit. New Jersey and Dallas and all other urban suitors explicitly want Amazon to come in as the trendsetter for their next-gen business image/growth/community. Even if everyone substantially ag...

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There may be becoming a critical mass of young people who won’t be “talked back down from” ethical stands, or even seduced with career opportunities like the Boomers were, now that they’ve seen for sure just how thoroughly and dishearteningly impossible it is to be a Weinstein, Gates, Kalanick, Elli...

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Since Atlanta IIRC was one of two more State Farm mega-outposts this decade, thought I would post this link for other forumers to know some related development in the health insurance space in our ‘New South’ rival: https://atlanta.curbed.com/2018/1/29/16942648/anthem-technology-center-construction-...

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In the days of EDS and Frito-Lay and blue wool suits, I guess Plano could get away with being a fresh but somewhat boring brand. Lately with infrastructure beginning to age, more stylish housing stock further north, a growing airport owned by county seat McKinney, and a municipal name that resembles...

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https://www.uptexas.org/Government/Public-Works/Construction-Projects “Blastco installed scaffolding and is placing a shroud around the entire tank to enclose the work area.” From now till end of May they’ll be repairing inside and external problems with the tank and then repainting it. They will no...

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So what is the mechanism for times when a project needs to be discussed in two complementary perspectives, for instance a public park that’s supposed to foster urban economic growth? How would threading work there? I’m thinking of the Oak Cliff Deck Park in that example, but also here’s a link to ye...

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PS: numbers from the population area pane on the very enjoyable and free-as-advertised www.freemaptools.com

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Not intending to pile on, here, but even if such passenger pipes were operational and people felt like packing into coffins to just get it over with and be somewhere (I mean, I guess, that is the logical conclusion of what we thrifty passengers have gotten airlines to do), guess what? The radius fro...

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Converting old Convention Center — thoughts, folks?

https://www.guidelive.com/video-games/2 ... st-stadium

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PS -- the beautiful facility being rebuilt

Metroplex NW Highway Rebuild.png

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Thank you, Alex. Nice to hear that.

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Last I checked were only 6 units left unsold within the top ten floors of tower, which per website seems to now be 16 floors. Has it topped out yet?

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Blue Star Land has filed plans with Frisco — three more office buildings at The Star, say DBJ and DMN, 7 to 12 stories tall.
Believe it or not, they’re not for Amazon.

https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news ... risco.html

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If you are interested in U-shaped skyscrapers, you'll probably be interested by this:

http://www.ctbuh.org/TallBuildings/Acad ... fault.aspx

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No Google Doodle! Horrors.

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Has there been anything on here lately about rebuilding the crazy water tower in University Park? (right between 3521 and 3533 Northwest Parkway, on Northwest Hwy) Driving by, I also liked the cool chimney on 3601 Northwest Parkway (1963) nearby. Oh, and lots of work just north in Dallas around Walc...

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Also, you're freeing up space for 10,000 or whatever lower-VMT residents as opposed to the counterfactual where those units are built further out, in places requiring more driving. CityMAP does indicate that traffic will be transferred from highways to local streets, and you are correct that local ...

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Well you were right; the second link I had was Project c3po...

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Oh I see, you mean the early 2014 one:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas- ... ooking-for

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Timing seems a little off, but it’s a good suggestion for sure.

Project Wall-E hit executive sessions in late 2011 dwindled away in 2012 whereas this Panasonic decision came in 2014:

https://www.denverpost.com/2014/12/18/p ... otropolis/

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I don’t think we’ve satisfactorily established that this matter of Tier 1 / R1 pipeline (with or without grade inflation on the definition in the years since 1994*) even matters for cities’ real value proposition to AMZN. Especially when compared to the myriad cultural opportunities to get Amazon em...

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Fortunately there is an opportunity now for us to treat the homeless with respect —

https://candysdirt.com/2017/12/20/mehrd ... side-pics/

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Think they beat you to that suburbia phase three tagline already:

http://www.gatewayplanning.com/radiate/ ... .20.17.pdf

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Well, it’s passed up Celina and has its sights on Anna’s back, now, dude. At only a 24-mile commute to The Star, by the time that commute becomes utterly intolerable it’ll hope to have landed its own office parks to compensate. Of course the neighborhoods will be looking a bit drab next to the newes...

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One person on the Houston forum said today, “Amazon knows that by including Indy and Columbus, Indiana and Ohio will go all-out on incentives, which they can then leverage over more desirable locations that aren't as likely to play the incentive game (NYC, DC, Boston, LA, Denver, etc.).”

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tamtagon said we in DFW have all the same creativity, it’s just not as obvious/concentrated Matt said Austinites are pretentious in a different way than Dallasites, but pretentious nonetheless. DPatel said, “A lot of my friends there grew up in DFW, and I see how differently they act in Austin versu...

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Update - the developers asked the FAA for 847’ feet above grade. A study is being conducted since anything above 499’ would be an obstruction to air navigation under the Code of Federal Regulations Section 77.17 (a) (1) https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&o...

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This coming year is likely to see a veritable Top Ten of new tallests arriving at their final heights: 1121' - Philadelphia - Comcast Technology Center 1099' - Los Angeles - Wilshire Grand Center 1070' - San Francisco - Salesforce Tower 918' - Monterrey - Torre KOI 900' - Jersey City - 99 Hudson St...

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https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=253384488&row=2 https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/public/publicAction.jsp?action=showDashTwoForm&suppCaseNoticeID=327561271 It appears their crane’s airspace obstruction permit finally expired in Febru...

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https://www.xconomy.com/texas/2017/06/30/texas-medical-center-leadership-turmoil-here-are-the-latest-moves/ Memorial Hermann Health System's installing a new CEO; their recent one lasted 13 months. The Texas Medical Center CEO departed in March to move to U. of Arizona. August 31st was the last day ...

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As for the part beyond fiscal health, though... ...I still disagree about how they ranked Austin's culture so high. These days, the only difference in culture between Dallas and Austin is that people in Austin just constantly rag on Dallas and sometimes Houston. It's not very true, what you're sayin...

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https://airlinegeeks.com/2017/11/04/eti ... -airlines/

Service to Abu Dhabi will discontinue in March.

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There aren't a lot of places where a nineteen-year-old can get a hearing in corporate America. Talented tinkerers are much less scarce here than the supply of white-collars willing to go to bat for them. At the turn of the century, the people who wanted the space to test the newest tools -- tools wh...

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Rather than look at tech labor pool capacity, Bezos' or his lieutenants' prerogatives, real estate relationships, or the offered incentive amounts, I would be weighing what kind of company they want to become. Different cities instill different values. Austin may be past its intriguing prime, but I ...

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In City Issues, Cord1936 shared the BEA's metro GDP press release this Wednesday. http://dfwu.dallasmetropolis.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=123&start=100#p7713 I notice that of the top fifty metropolitan statistical areas, 19 are in the Sunbelt South. Five are large: DFW = $ 511.6 billion/yr D.C....

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Harvard owns 110 acres at Beacon Park Yard and AMZN would be just the thing to tie together the T's red and green lines. But the 30th St. Station District (88ac.) plus adjacent Schuylkill Yards (14ac.) give Philly much better immediate centrality in transportation and urban living, if Philly goes wi...

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I've seen Toronto mentioned on other sites, and while HQ2 is too large for East Bayfront it could get its initial turnkey half million square feet there and then turn the corner into the Port Lands. Islands, beaches, marinas ... though their LRT hasn't reached the Cherry St streetcar yet, as far as ...

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We have 82,000 employed in information; Chicago has 84,500.

https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.tx_dallas_msa.htm
https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/il_chicago_msa.htm

Anyway, maybe we should back Mark Cuban and his 175+ acres a couple miles due south of City Hall.

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And that would be bad, because as long as business continues as usual, places that didn't even flood this time will flood at less precipitation next time as the prairie further upstream continues to get paved over. Before they bounce back they need to get real. The reason they can make a profit and ...

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October 1994 October 1998 June 2001 September 2008 May 2015 April 2016 August 2017 Major Houston floods just since I've lived there. Places that were designed not to flood now flood because of thirty miles of miraculously cheap housing upstream hyped by "opportunity urbanism" boosters, che...

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The elevator core is rising now: https://app.oxblue.com/open/KDC/frostbank Counting rooftop antennae it will be the tenth tallest building in South Texas. SA - Tower of the Americas - 729' SA - Marriott RiverCenter - 546' SA - Tower Life - 504' SA - Weston Centre - 444' CC - Shoreline Plaza South - ...

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Been seeing features online about 600 Guadalupe (downtown block bounded by 6th, Guadalupe, 7th, and San Antonio). Initial proposal has ground floor retail with 500Ksf office below 300+ luxury apartments, but if they increase either component then the floor count could increase from 62 into the "...

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Occupiable shell space is one possibility, allowing owners to invest further to partition and customize when they choose:

https://thespaces.com/2017/04/26/naked-house-offers-ultra-minimal-london-homes-for-as-little-as-150k/

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... the most desirable of anything is almost always also the most expensive. The anecdote of roommates in a closet-sized apartment has been well known for along time regarding living in Manhattan, San Francisco etc. It's crazy expensive to live there because it's crazy nice to live there. http://ww...

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