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Didn't even bother rendering its relationship to anything south of it. Dallas Mentality Monument we'll call it.

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Twenty years ago, the big Japanese automakers had their US subsidiaries headquartered near the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Nissan, the most cost-sensitive, left Torrance for Franklin, TN, and then Toyota from Torrance to Plano. Before Alliance or Las Colinas succumb to the temptation to fil...

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With AT&T doubling down on their slice of DTD is there potential for a new naming rights deal where KBH moves over for Dallas Discovery District Events Hall? ("Convention Center" is becoming very 1989 while "Food Hall" is 2019, if too much so. But it's just an example of the ...

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Think there are a whole raft of articles being written today about laughter-free real estate investors and developers in Queens who have already signed on the dotted line for new deals there since the autumn announcement?

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Spectra is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Comcast's sports division.

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DFW was fifth nationally in under-construction square footage in the industrial CRE (commercial real estate) market this year: https://www.copaken-brooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/national-industrial-market-report-q4-2018.pdf and according to numbers further on down is ranked an equally comfort...

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Just like transit must not be a thing, the head of Amazon's Austin operations has crowed, "We're not big on sterile environments here," and yet today's brand new Amazon lease is for half of this extremely sterile fortress: https://www.endeavor-re.com/properties/domain-10/ (quote source: ht...

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Corpus is the next Beaumont-Port Arthur! Actually, I've always wondered what was keeping Corpus from really taking off; now with liquid natural gas poised to activate the port, maybe it'll stick. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CORP548PCPI Their per capita personal income is above El Paso and Ab...

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I'll say what I always said pick the best of both worlds. . . here you have total access to the much much larger talent pool, corporate satisfaction, logistics hub, transit that despite its hiccups is still better than Austin, a very valuable international airport and a city that could sadly be pus...

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Whatever the real situation is, I hope it rebounds and redounds to the benefit of Texas communities. I will say that while "there's always more talent to access" is persuasive, companies have cultures just like communities do, and both do rely on continuity for things that even the best an...

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They're staying put. They'll probably not take the incentives due to the public criticism. However, that just makes the deal even sweeter for NYC. The residents will despise them but I don't think the politicians truly care about the people. I understand that you're dead certain about what they're ...

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Note to self: don't buy AMZN if the brass thought they could look to New Yorkers, Long Island ones no less, for "being wanted."

Punchline is that after all this shakes out it'll go to UTD by the art museums. Or... Cypress Waters.

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I guess a three quarters of a million square foot prelease is always a surprise, but it shouldn't be a surprise that they got it over DFW. When Oracle opened a 560-Ksf campus there less than a year ago, only to announce permits for another 420-Ksf addition, Austin Business Journal noted, "Even ...

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My sense is that at the margin between very wealthy and scandalously wealthy, Texans and Oklahomans have almost always opted to spend more time on properties devoted to skiing, ranching, or fishing, as opposed to additional toes on the ground in their city. And that when they downsize and sell the h...

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That would be a high spend for not a lot of useful visibility, but then again, tech still loves that kind of meteoric signaling. We will have to see if the new 700,000 square foot tower breaking ground on the riverfront in Austin really is pre-leased by Salesforce, as some rumors have it -- that wou...

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Northwest Highway is Dallas' equivalent of Houston's West Loop South (if only in distance from the core -- LBJ is much farther than 610) -- and while the first JW Marriott in Texas went there, eventually a second one did find central Houston too. There it and the Lancaster and the ICON are the most ...

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Delightfully detailed feedback, thanks! I'm glad the regulations exist, too, but it's frustrating if or when digging a hole for a bunch of concrete underneath the Trinity floodplain becomes the best shot we have.

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As urbanist Johnny Sanphillippo says, history teaches that prosperous institutions rarely reform themselves; they fracture either due to outside change of heart or pocketbook, or to their internal contradictions of both. Most likely the IoT / smart everything business model will disrupt regional tra...

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Will this actually be called the Cotton Belt line or will it be given a color based name as other DART lines. ... Cotton Belt peak headways (30 mins) are as long as the LRT weekend/off-offpeak headways. Reading through the DEIS, sections 4 & 5 ... talk a lot about timing and coordinating CB tra...

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You misunderstand "net worth"- someone can own a $300k home, but if the mortgage balance is $250k, they're not in the highest percentiles of wealth. If you look at the SCF with this quick shortcut calculator you can either include or exclude home equity in the assets. https://dqydj.com/ne...

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Muncien, while good for some things, health clinics are clearly no substitute for level one trauma centers, and there are a lot of ancillary services that it makes sense to concentrate around the expertise of a trauma center, so dispersing referrals around the county is not necessarily improving ove...

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In downtown Richmond I read it's mostly willow oaks, Matt777.

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Among the headliner triad of HQ2 Supersite, East Quarter, and So.Good, this will be the best bridge to the outlying residential city (assuming Deep Ellum will never really form a mature living environment for most uses, or try to) beyond the CBD loop. I like forumer wbarch's idea that this N-S corri...

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Yeah, if the station truly is already "dug out" and just needs finishing and elevators and such, it shouldn't be too much. There's no need to make it fancy. It it's a concrete shell, commission artists to make it interesting on the cheap. Murals, neon, sculpture, etc. Maybe a water featur...

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Pertaining to Lesso Americas' track record, not to news on Frisco or on moving their headquarters there from California as the original DMN Gensler quotes suggested they were floating: June 2017: http://www.ngkf.com/home/media-center/press-releases.aspx?d=9722#sthash.WArXNQYa.dpbs Feb 2018: https://...

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I noticed that too, but I like it. That's a big trend in NYC these days. I like it too, and I wouldn't mind a few more like that. I mean, it's just some quirky trend or anything, that's just what happens in high-demand areas when FAR is the binding zoning constraint. You have a given amount of squa...

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Actually I think what he's picking up on is the neotraditionalist aesthetic of longtime DC+FW architecture firm David M Schwarz

https://www.traditionalbuilding.com/pro ... architects

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Depending on their cost of capital it could have still been a reasonable bet even without the immediate HQ2 turnaround; $33MM for 7.2 acres in downtown Dallas with or without HSR terminus ought to compare favorably to 2.1 acres Duke Energy bought in uptown Charlotte for $27.5MM, just for another exa...

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So you're saying there's a gap?

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https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/airbus-a220-airliner-delta-us/index.html From early November: "If you have plans to fly from New York to Dallas-Ft. Worth or to Houston, Delta is hoping you'll take notice. Those are two of the first routes the airline plans for these new jets beginning in Jan...

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So if I'm hearing you right, the gameplan is to tank a bunch of already precarious nation-states, gloat that they will turn to the Chinese for stability, and somehow imagine that the dramatic expansion of China's geopolitical control -- that will come from this "over-a-barrel" dealmaking s...

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I only disagreed that Stringer was completely biased. The kernel of truth in Atlanta's favor is that at least three areas -- South Downtown & the Gulch, (1.) (2.) (3.) Tech Square, (4.) (5.) and Old Fourth Ward / Inman Park / Reynoldstown, (6.) (7.) -- felt to me like urban destinations with hea...

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Harwood funder/founder Barbier-Mueller is Swiss (Geneva?) as well. I don't see the value of trying to make DMA a kind of Southern comprehensive Metropolitan Museum of Art, so it's fine with me to specialize, especially if an institution hasn't earned someone's trust, which institutions even more tha...

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Reference: https://www.bea.gov/system/files/2018-0 ... 0918_0.pdf

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Atlanta has some high-profile brands; not just Coke, Chik-fil-A, Delta and CNN, but Mercedes-Benz USA, UPS, Napa, Arby's, Home Depot, Invesco and SunTrust. All told, it's much smaller -- 2017 metropolitan product of 385.5 billion/yr compared to 535.5 billion here in DFW -- but is divided into dozens...

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Not many entities will build 80,000 s.f.+ floorplates even in the suburbs these days. Interesting architectural program brief.

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tamtagon wrote:... Now Willis Towers Watson picks the city. Looks like we're going to see just how much can squeeze into downtown.

It's no 1700 Pacific, but Ross Tower will now be 70% occupied. Not yet bursting at the seams even if Kourtny Garrett calls it a big Downtown Dallas success story.

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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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