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Tunneling a moving sidewalk from the terminal to the train station and SW HQ would be the quickest route, but I still prefer an elevated people mover. Elevated with big windows so people get a good look at the Dallas Skyline, whooped around the runway with a Mockingbird @ Denton Drive so that retail...

I guess the prices should be expected with something like this. If Texas Live! succeeds, it does so by helping tourists capture a taste of a stereotypic land that exists only on TV and in Nashville bro-country songs. Instead of highlighting North Texas businesses, most of the food and drink joints h...

I think the focus should be on supporting a reWILDing effort between the levees. This is the ONLY option in my world. Somewhere along the way, I do want a shelf or podium park full of all the bells and whistles, but the length of the river channeled by levees should be keystone source of the region...

If McDonalds was on top of things, that unit would be a primary test kitchen for the brand. Choice making among young adults is showing greater independence from the rearing generation; purchasing preferences for the next generation will be revealed in the downtown settings in Sunbelt cities.

Isnt ablon a car? No, you're thinking of the Toyota Avalon. Ablon is a poetic or literary term for Britain or England. I thought Ablon was a like mythical magic lion, who helps good children find their way. Probably British. Kinda hard to believe that at last the Galleria area is really starting to...

Las Colinas needs a good museum.

...so, there's no where else to put this building?

I think it sucks almost as much as anyone, but I also think it was a matter time, so whatever. I suppose the solution would be for one or a collection of the art philanthropist to sponsor the artists in a studio-loft warehouse... that would never work. Artists and musicians have been pioneers and th...

It's funny to remember all the angst and anticipation we had while Azure was being marketed. That one project marking what many forum observers saw as a significant threshold, rounding the corner leaving stagnant on the way to verdant. Even Amli Quadrangle seemed like something of a baby step. And n...

News that I-35 will likely be expanded and/or double decked would likely kill that plan and push funding down the road. The Katy Trail is a real estate play. I think there's reason to hope the Downtown Dallas area will be spared the reckless highway building of the past. Even the most ridiculous pi...

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...If the Dallas Cowboys married the Dallas Citizens Council, their first-born son would be Caraway...

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I don't think any of these concomitant masterplans will really meet the potential in Arlington until Six Flags joins the fun and connects the amusement park, convention center and the Rangers pieces of flair. It's possible that Six Flags could have a profitable, exciting winter season. A Gaylord sca...

And that 'engaging nightclubs' thing? Won't happen till Frisco quits having the no-more-drinking-and-clubs-after-midnight mentality every time there is an election. Personally, I think alcohol serving businesses should be allowed to stay open 24-7-365 if they have customers and want to.... but the ...

so, like, how many times has this rotunda area been redone?

"Growth, particularly nonresidential growth like this, it's good for us," Lumpkins said. "There's no reason we wouldn't be comfortable with [the data center]." https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/08/08/500-million-google-data-center-mean-d-fws-southern-star No r...

They've certainly got the backing of the regions big money and big planners.

Local, morning and nightly news, seems to be the only news I can stomach anymore. Please, please, PLEASE, don't let that go political. Word Whatever happened to responsibility in the media? The handful of corporations doling out 'the news' are catering to the advertising dollars they can squeeze ou...

I think Victory Park will need something else to really make it as a thriving neighborhood. VP needs another ingredient to become a good stew... or brew... The sport and special event arena promises the neighborhood potential with a flash flood of excitement most of the year. When the pedestrian blo...

I wouldn't walk from Deep Ellum to Victory Park unless I had to. I tried walking from Fitzhugh @ Live Oak to the DMA or vice versa a few times and Fitzhugh @ Live Oak to Hall @ McKinney.... while it was a fun exploration at times, I didn't want to do it again. Just a little too far. I don't know how...

Taxi service could easily update it's function, but that would essentially replace the 'bosses' and owners with an entirely new structure, and as we've seen with companies across the industrial spectrum, those folks usually take the suicide pill rather than evolve. It's unfortunate for the workers c...

I'll be happy about this when the less expensive component finds funding.

...so I'm curious, does the city still try to float a bike rental deal at Fair Park? also, Funny how this bike share deal has played out, one company comes to town, then all companies come to town making it impossible for any of them to stay in business. Selling usage data appears to generate the pr...

The standard must apply to the whole metropolitan area, all 13 counties for maximum effectiveness. Public Hospitals and Public Universities should administer in-take, medical treatment, psychological evaluations. Those who do not choose or are not fully capable of choosing homelessness are placed in...

So weird. So much angst over a building like Butler and here we are doing the same thing.

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...

^That's too bad. Evangelicals continue to Mess With Texas, in the name of what they have been (mis)lead to believe about their sects.

I think the scale is about right, pasting the stadium built in Arlington into Fair Park...

...still pissed LaMiller turned The Cowboys away from Fair Park. If that were only true then that would be the one thing to like about her. The reality is that Jerry Jones insisted that the county commissioners (not the city) schedule the referendum for the taxpayer funding immediately, knowing the...

...still pissed LaMiller turned The Cowboys away from Fair Park.

...and my favorite save the Cotton Bowl what-if puts a Liga MX club in Fair Park.

I wonder if Wynnewood Village will evolve into 'the next West Village.' Catering toward the Latino/Hispanic side of things.

The seething hatred for this beautiful structure continues to mystify me. Some people are still upset about the circumstances surrounding the building's origin. Whether this continued obsession is constructive is debatable, but that's the source of their ire nonetheless. ...that's pretty accurate f...

You know, like, since the late 80s, Las Colinas has always seemed, like, almost close ... getting there but missing the binding ingredient or something. The Billy Bob fiasco is a thick fog of continued near-misses, paired to the PR campaign from the Frisco $5 Billion Mile and the second incarnation ...

Cronies lose another one, thank goodness.

Now maybe we can get a Springtime Exposition on the same scale as Autumnal State Fair. Some big time soccer games, Earth Day, Dallas Film Festival, Farm Aid Concert featuring Willie Nelson (please), Cinco de Mayo....

^It's a neighborhood grocery store, not a Wal-Mart Supercenter.... By no stretch of the imagination would this be considered a “grocery store”. More like a convenience store. You would be hard pressed to find enough ingredients of any kind here to even cook half a meal. Would be great if other near...

^It's a neighborhood grocery store, not a Wal-Mart Supercenter....

Matt777 wrote:And maybe make breakfast tacos in house rather than sourcing from Tacodeli which always feel a bit off to me having grown up in South Texas where breakfast tacos are king.

mmmmmmmmm

tacos and kolaches, what else is there?

But the lack of interest in purchasing units started long before any of that; before the building was slated to be 42 stories, before they selected the highly-reflective glass, before the Pension Fund was involved. Again, that is why, for years, they could not find anybody willing to invest or loan...

There is really no evidence that the reflection issue caused Museum Tower's slow sales. ... the well was most definitely soured. It's a shame. There was minimal interest in Museum Tower units long before the glare problem reared its ugly head. (Hence the dearth of pre-sales; hence the lack of anyon...

There is really no evidence that the reflection issue caused Museum Tower's slow sales. I'm not aware either of any evidence on a spreadsheet or database reported to condo owners, for sure; and I'm not aware of any reporting vehicle asking around if the glare is a problem with people able and/or co...

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/07/26/downtown-dallas-high-profile-museum-tower-almost-sold "Opened during the worst of the Great Recession in 2010 . . ." For the love of God, does Steve Brown ever check his facts? -- Museum Tower opened in the last month of 2012, NOT...

I'm still hoping A&M can find the way to expand with a full-on medical school in East Dallas, preferably the whole body Osteopathic Medicine side of study to compliment the pin-point surgical study famous at UTSW. I only think A&M since the relationship to Baylor-Scott-White is already so st...

Still wasting the 37th floor.

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The only thing that would make that neon-styled sign any better is if it rotated (like the Magnolia Oil logo used to do).

The forming park across the street from this proposed hotel will be a nice bonus for overnight guests. Too bad there's not any sort of fixed-in-place public transportation between the downtown train stations and the Cultural District. A bettin' man would have thought the new Dickies Arena would have...

Hopefully, by the time stuff is getting up an running on the new Panther Island, downtown will have experienced a solid decade of population growth, employment growth and a steady return of the pedestrian environment.

This city has been idling for way too long!

At this point, I'm not sure how anything in Uptown qualifies for public assistance. The Victory Park TIF/PID/Whatever has another several years before it expires, probably by then, it'll only need to be the West Dallas TIF/PID/whatever. What's left of Oak Lawn (mimus the Uptown subset) should have a...

Working with nature turns out to be so much better than trying to strong-arm it into compliance. Little is more natural along the Trinity River than seasonal floods. This is good for the water, good for the river, good for the plants, good for animals and good for people -- as long as they let natur...

I think the good folks living in Plano and administering the municipality will realize the need to pair, bundle and contain the massive employment 'districts' with an equal residential component, otherwise the result will be like downtown Dallas in the decades leading up to the turn of the century.

If the BN sticks, we'll see plenty of permanent stuff make its way in. Only way to do that is to kick a lot of homeowners out. The newness of that place is starting to fade. Saw some guys with an AK47(Romanian AK) down at First Tee last week shooting into a gravel pit. They were drinking beer, smok...

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