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I'm Congressman Goodlatte, and I approved this message.

https://goodlatte.house.gov

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Even if CTBUH would say it isn't habitable, Mesquite's KEOM at 510' for the sentimental win!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite_ ... _Tower.jpg

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I believe Williams Square Central and the tallest at CityLine are still much taller because office floor heights > residential floors.

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IMG_0510.JPG IMG_0509.JPG IMG_0508.JPG About four more pages of that brochure are gone now. I don't know the year. But google image searching Surtran taxis turns up interesting NYT and architectural articles about DFW opening and Dallas in general. Edit: btw, if anyone has job contacts in New York,...

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Am about to recycle this old paper but thought that some of you will certainly enjoy a look at it:

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Here is BEA's new estimate of the largest 2017 metropolitan statistical areas by nominal (current-dollar) annual GDP -- $1,718 billion for greater NY $1,044 billion for LA-Orange County (a much smaller geography than greater NY, so apples to oranges) $680 billion in Chicagoland $535 billion in DFW $...

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Yeah I have been seeing* some doomsaying writing about how even the SF Bay Area, messed up as it is in so many ways, has outperformed LA economically. Ever since the Cold War and increasingly lately. Much is made by these journalists and academics of LA's struggles, I guess. But still, guess what? W...

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Successfully challenging urban centers for growth in a way where --
the faster we grow, the weaker we become:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/201 ... -we-become

or a shorter take:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/201 ... rer-we-get

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The garage on the Harwood end of that block is owned with 1700 Pacific. The shorter garage on the farther Pearl half of the same block is owned with 1717 Main (Comerica Tower). The Comerica garage appraisal reads: Depreciation Physical: 50% Functional: 0% External: 0% Total: 70% Nonetheless, it is b...

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Maaaaaybe these days that could work, but didn't work in isolation. Tulsa built a nine-block complex with performing arts center, 700-seat movieplex with Dolby sound, fifty retailers and 10+ restaurants, plus office towers and hotels, to no avail: https://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/news/throwbacktulsa...

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It's a lot to do with cost of construction, I think? The article mentions the congregation's campus expansion. Rich suburbs of Boston now offer to give developers prime property with old city buildings on it in exchange for building them new municipal facilities just because adequate new facilities ...

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Cool looking, but please nobody start crying if they build this design and <25 floors of office atop a garage is three hundred feet shorter than maconahey found on the FAA!

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* It’s been so long since Houston scored a major league win in the corporate relocation game, it’s hard to hold hope that economic development can do anything substantive about Houston’s vacancy problem. Is this referring to the entire Metropolitan area, or just Houston proper? I'm not as familiar ...

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Topped out:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cFyIK1prFjg

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Thank you for the excellent name fact about Race Street, Hannibal! That block is 2.5 acres inside the sidewalk easements, of which DallasCAD says BUMC owns the 1.8 acres, contiguous and with no holdouts, that aren't along the DART tracks. Lakewoodhobo and I, and probably Elm St. Motors' owners (who ...

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For the record, they don't own that whole block. Elm Street Motors even has (had?) a sign proudly proclaiming "THIS IS NOT BAYLOR PROPERTY". DMN did write that the admin block and its equally sized parking garage are going up "in the 3700 block of Elm," contrary to the email att...

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In cross-section this fresh tower's sloping faces might start to add up to something on the skyline -- especially now that nearby 308 Guadalupe's tapering pyramidal proposal just got a hundred feet taller this week... https://austin.towers.net/downtown-austins-republic-office-tower-gets-a-surprise-h...

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Now that CBD office vacancy has dipped a whole percentage point beneath 20% again, Hines has broken ground this summer on a new high-rise (by some accounts the twelfth it's built from the ground up in downtown Houston). It will sit at an angle on the 800 block of Texas Avenue near venerable, soon-re...

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https://dallasmetropolis.com/dfwu/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=190&start=100#p17230 In the above post, forumer buildingswithlegs remarked the trend of public sunshades popping up across North Texas. Within a year of the Winspear Opera House's opening in October 2009, a whole bunch were also finished ...

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Might I ask for a quick clarification? Possibly the tech product showroom industry was disappearing, but in Atlanta the apparel mart downtown complex still seems to be chugging along. Maybe Infomart's ownership and lenders modeled a higher foreseeable ROI for the tech industry, but... unless Dallas'...

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The elevation is Harwood's biggest advantage with their developed property. Its constantly made their projects that are moderately tall appear more prominent. Well the elevation and having direct access to the freeway ramps. Hall Arts, Flora & Olive, and the proposals for 3001 Turtle Creek, Ced...

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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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