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Some big names from the past! Maybe the new operators of Fair Park will improve on staging these annual events in North Texas by use the three day music festival as an anchor weekend for the (hopefully) inevitable three weeks in April/May Spring Fair.

I'll try to remember to move this tangent to the Parkland Hospital thread over the weekend(ish). Yes, the whole Taj Mahal extravaganza tugging is a collection of empty reasons to be angry about paying taxes. Public hospitals are an investment, like public education, that is very difficult to show me...

Hannibal Lecter wrote:^ Yet only two counties in NE Texas have public hospitals. All the other counties seem to do just fine without them. That doesn't appear to support them being a "necessity".

Well, then, trigger a referendum and put it to a vote.

Apparently, "the community" see the hospital as a necessity along the lines of a fire department, police department, sanitation department, parks, street lights.... whatever There's way too much nuance in my opinion to try to lay it all out. I'm not trying to get roasted for grumbling abo...

Apparently, "the community" see the hospital as a necessity along the lines of a fire department, police department, sanitation department, parks, street lights.... whatever

HarryMoto wrote:That Atlas Metal Works ... I thought it would make for some sort of music/art makeover, like what would eventually happen with The Bomb Factory.

that would be great!

hahaha I just saw the 88 and remembered the good times, back before the turn of the century when the Cowboys were good. I cannot believe it's been so long since the Cowboys got deep into the play offs.... The corporate presence of galactic ATT really should turn into a cornerstone for this side of ...

I think this is encouraging.

^ One of the pleasures of Deep Ellum has been that it is NOT dense. It's much more like a small town. There's a reason most of the people who actually live in the neighborhood very much like having I-345 where it is -- we don't want to be part of downtown. You may like living like a termite. Most o...

Lake Dallas? Wow, Companies really don't give a crap what burb they move to as long as it's in NTX. That's so funny. At first, I thought maybe I mistook Lake Dallas for Lake Highlands--which would still be weird. Then I just remembered quick trips from Denton to the liquor store in Lake Dallas. Tho...

Sounds like these bosses have been there too long. What is the optimal employment length for a job like that? Much more than a decade at the same tourism post may be too long, it seems, as the perks and fringe benefits gorge. B _ G Dallas appear a successful initiative, but maybe a fresh team should...

John McCain Road @ Colleyville Road? If the community favored the large scale mixed use development, that would be a great eventual location for the next big variation of the corporate processing/training/tech consolidation along the lines of State Farm/Deloitte/Schwab.... tailored to the multinatio...

I still don't understand why Collyville rejected a station.

exelone31 wrote:This development looks cool, I hope the "So Good" name doesn't stick, as it is "So Lame" IMHO.

When people stop moving to North Texas, construction will stop... obviously.

??I thought they sold the land or whatever?

It's "the cycle" and no one should be surprised. The looming crash will be a slow down in North Texas, screeching to a hard slow will happen else where, what's been considered domestic-moderate since the recession will settle in Dallas as the region continues to increase in scope and scale...

Cedars-South Dallas is becoming the next big thing, grand-scale gentrification (hopefully managed appropriately...) as the residential cornucopia between the renewing big-city downtown and the big-city urban park-arcade fills up with all the goodies. When this swath turns over, Dallas will have foun...

So much potential in this road renovation, could easily become the model for urban neighborhood sustainability.

^I'd rather see Hall buy Spire and totally rock that real estate into an urban success story more potent than the suburban success in Frisco. By the time Craig & Kathryn Hall retire from public life, I'm hopeful they will have established and endowed another domestically significant museum that ...

I really like how these suburban office parks are evolving. From intentionally isolated fortress clusters rapidly on the way to concentrated gathering places.

To many people living in Denton County(e.g.), Deep Ellum is simply the Deep Ellum side of Downtown; to most people living in Lakewood, Deep Ellum is Deep Ellum, downtown is ringed by the highways, Uptown is West Village.... it's all relative. To a diminishing number of people, Uptown is part of Oak ...

On the forum, we used to have a healthy 'where is/what is downtown' debate, geographic definitions, social definitions and all that. Downtown Dallas used to be defined by Elm, Main and Commerce; westward expansion reached Ross, the Convention Center and new City Hall expanded "downtown" to...

^haha word

One beautiful reality for all the Sunbelt Cities is the opportunity to learn from longer-established communities like New York, Chicago, "overseas" and adapt successful high density living processes into the new new world. The opportunity to adapt the most beneficial systems. Scale these t...

...something like that would sure take the sizzle out of Uptown. hahaha It wouldn't really, but funny to say. Uptown will really settle in, though, when this side of downtown finally gears up for this century. Look at the next 50 years of South Dallas through the lenses of that HQ2 fantastical coope...

I was hoping that would end up (at least) in Irving. I guess the leading edge of suburbia is the usual place for novel attractions. The city is considering assisting the project with a grant for infrastructure improvements ... a "proposed mixed-use development, anchored by a multi-use sports co...

Maybe Google is the one that'll plop down in Dallas....

Mr. Amsterdam wrote:
Tnexster wrote:We need our own Wilshire Grand Center project in downtown Dallas.

Without that ridiculous spire.

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More than a handful of people have mentioned that North Texas dodged a bullet when HQ2 landed somewhere else; Fortune 500 #6 McKesson was already on track with the move to Irving, and seems like HQ2 had little to do with that decision & formal announcement, but the other three could easily have ...

Wow! That's a major deal, that could turn into something more major. It's not too hard to imagine Amazon budding its own package delivery service, and if Alliance turns into the dominant hub, we could see two North Texas airport on the top ten list of domestic cargo airports. Alliance is #30 on this...

I guess this is only 30 years late... but finally maybe it's the start of many similar transit station based residential developments that'll pull the train system up the hill.

There's no reason this man-made flood plane cannot become a primary component in the conditioning of potable water for the region. Rewilding this five-ish miles of river returns the natural filtration process to help clean the water. I've dreamed of a series of cisterns and catacombs under the flood...

Thanks Austin!

Sé que eso es correcto

Byron Nelson is leaving Trinity Forest is among the worst possible things that could happen. The red-line time capsule existence of this part of town and incessant neglect which created the Trinity River Forest are the two situations which will not last. This is one of the best case scenario redevel...

^Oh, totally, I have no doubt the Byron Nelson could move to Frisco. I also have no doubt the kinks of a Byron Nelson 'soft opening' at Trinity Forest will be worked out making the course a challenge the pros eagerly anticipate.

New PGA development at Panther Creek in Frisco spells the beginning of the end of Trinity Forest as a tour venue. Stick. A. Fork. In. It. I suppose that could happen with the Byron Nelson moving to Frisco, but I doubt it. The PGA offices moving to Frisco more likely spells the beginning of the end ...

Sweet. The more tourist pulling deals like that coming to Galveston increase the viability of an HSR extension. Just like Fort Worth, though, I think a Galveston HSR Station would need the boost from the San Antonio-Austin leg of the triangle to generate enough foot traffic. Galveston has the island...

Just like the Cowboys season, I'm too beat-down by a generation of losing to get excited by what seems like the right plan for this public wilderness! I will skeptically wait to see the rest of it, especially how the levee-filling choke point at the standing wave entrance to the forest will be corre...

At this point, something as severe as a short , mild domestic recession might actually be good for North Texas. Places less diversified and/or more susceptible to property investing hyperbole would experience the worst part of a short mild domestic recession, but it would probably only be a slow in ...

I sure hope it's not a deal where the XFL tries to out-patriot the NFL. That whole flag-kneel-civil-rights-violation-protest and reaction pushes people to extremes more than it raises awareness and slow played solution, and if the XFL wants to gain momentum by exploiting the bungled NFL reaction, th...

It would be nice if McKesson did the same as Toyota. I'd love to get HP Enterprise in a downtown Perot Skyscraper.

I think I'm supposed to want this at Fair Park Cotton Bowl.

28,000 passengers boarded trains at the station daily

This ill toned opinion piece from Bloomberg is interesting. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-06/dallas-move-by-fred-s-drugs-and-payless-has-hedge-fund-behind-it ...Alden Global was founded by a Wall Street billionaire named Randall Smith, whom the New York Post once labeled “the gr...

Does there need to be a cafe? Maybe a juice/drink and pastry kinda place. Bring your lunch and buy the fresh squeezed tangerine juice at the park....

gawh The only reasonable answer to this deal is another 20 gates, 12 domestic and 8 international. DFW can at least add another terminal and encourage the development of a dual hub, Love Field can double and add international, and Meacham Field in Fort Worth can get going again --- the regional grow...

North Texas is like a magnet, the stuff keeps coming.

So, now, theoretically, it'll be possible to paddle a canoe from Fortune 500 #2 to Fortune 500 #6?

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