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I45Tex

The new Dream on Printers Alley in Nashville, funded by local investors, topped out in late October 2017. One has just been announced for Buckhead in Atlanta:

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2018/7/11/17 ... swell-road

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tamtagon wrote:gross

I know, it's gotten tricky to respond in detail to his posts about transit, smart growth and culture or society when I can't recall which Koch brother he is IRL

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Yes. "This." For instance, CityLine and Galatyn Park both seem to have peak WalkScores below the cutoff, disqualifying them, while downtown Richardson's max walk score is high enough but its square footage disqualifies it. I used to be able to use heatmaps on WalkScore.com but can't seem t...

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Thanks Tucy!

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Downtown block 122, I think it's called, surrounded by Park, Saint Louis, Harwood, and I-30, has been marked as one of Mike Hoque's purchases, but according to DCAD maps and assessment hearings it still appears to be owned in pieces by Sam Harrington and at least one grocery business. Any info on wh...

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There were a bunch of articles and you didn't link us to what you're referencing, but I do feel like Houston is a sidetrack from the potential of this thread. Wednesday after next, on July 11th, there's a morning-long symposium on the New Dallas -- get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dall...

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Speaking of beauty, jrd... hate the game, not the player, I suppose, but will Dallas have ever "arrived" before a discussion like that one actually includes the word beauty? I read the article; I sure noticed profile, impact, importance, check box, check box, extraordinariness, tourism mag...

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Leisure travel base alone may not be enough to keep an airline going, though. No matter how many people live in Tarrant County, (I think I do remember the latest population estimates put the Ft Worth-Arl Metropolitan Division in the neighborhood of 2.5MM or 33% and the Dallas-Plano-Irving Metropolit...

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I don't want to come across as negative, because I do like this project. I hope it can be completed and maintained for an achievable amount of resources and I hope the Circuit Trail Conservancy* and other projects link up with it somehow in the future. But I'm rubbed the wrong way by the bit about b...

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Would someone be willing to helpfully transcribe the graphic at the top of this thread onto our pinned comprehensive projects map? I want to do it but, at least this month, I just can't justify the time while I'm applying for urban development or wider regeneration/innovation jobs (PM if you know so...

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Yes, I'm encouraged by Masinter's investment in the neighborhood. It's not my neighborhood, but the NIMBYs who were overacting this drama (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJp4THVsVe0 :o ) were the same ones who voted down a DART station there. Taxpayers may feel like they are naturally the owne...

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I'm surprised that folks have let that claim stand. The burbs are not more dense. Garland may be 57 square miles at an average density of 4100-4200 residents per square mile, but ten minutes with a ZCTA map can show you an equally extensive square mileage of central and north-central Dallas with res...

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This is a good thread. What do you think about the following? While AT&T rival Sprint's headquarters is a massive EDS or JCPenney-style suburban Kansas City campus, big competitors like Verizon (on Bryant Park Midtown Manhattan) and Comcast (attached directly to Suburban Station) have spurred ou...

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In Census 2000, Fort Worth had 45% of Dallas' 1.2MM population, sure. Now Big D is around 1.3MM and what some would like to call its suburb has already jumped from 535K to just about 900K. Panther Island really is going to blow Victory out of the water, too... I think the FWD idea with West + East k...

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I wouldn't try anything more than DFW. A hefty attempt was made to brand the region as "North Texas" for the superbowl, but there was no follow thru so no chance that could have stuck anywhere outside the region... I'm glad for that, too. North Texas is a university, or geographic region ...

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I think "consolidating" many of the cities' and the four core counties' administrative functions (serving 6.6 million or more than 22% of all Texans*) would be no wilder a boondoggle than what we've already got, but, short-term, would probably hasten the flight to the far exurbs just acros...

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But surely you do understand, Tucy, that raising the ceiling that has to be raised before any other central transit projects can raise ridership directly, is also indirectly just as necessary.

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The thread though remains for downtown Dallas’ progress, not its regress. File that idea in our Opolis Blueprints subforum under “DeplorabLouvre,” if you’d like.

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Nice find, DPatel, although cringeworthy also, of course.* I guess it's still weird to me because D Magazine was talking price hikes on these units three years ago: https://candysdirt.com/2015/04/23/prices-movin-ciel-bleu-ciel/ Maybe zero of those deposits eventuated into real live pre-sales after a...

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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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