Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum

Tucy

I found the following link of 2018 U.S. city population figures. I can't tell if this states if this data is according to the U.S. Census Bureau. http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/ It is not U.S. Census. There will not be 2018 city population figures available from the U.S. Census until th...

Tucy

Not sure how I missed these renderings of D2 stations from a year ago... I'm sure most of you have already seen them, but just in case you haven't, here they are. http://dallascityhall.com/departments/pnv/Documents/D2%20Progress%205.2017_UDPRP%20Submittal.pdf It is interesting how both portals (Nor...

Tucy

The difference is that LTV Tower and the Statler were planned to do that. The developer who cleaned about both of those properties was known for cleaning out buildings and flipping them to a finishing developer. Here the Drever people intended to actually finish the job but continue to fail to do s...

Tucy

Building on some earlier comments, couldn't DART address their "congestion" issues quite easily and for probably at least $1.3 Billion less money by sending only some of each lines trains through the transit mall and turning others back to provide more service on each end of each line? As...

Tucy

Building on some earlier comments, couldn't DART address their "congestion" issues quite easily and for probably at least $1.3 Billion less money by sending only some of each lines trains through the transit mall and turning others back to provide more service on each end of each line? As ...

Tucy

The difference is that LTV Tower and the Statler were planned to do that. The developer who cleaned about both of those properties was known for cleaning out buildings and flipping them to a finishing developer. Here the Drever people intended to actually finish the job but continue to fail to do s...

Tucy

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/2018/05/21/forty-five-ten-changing-downtown-dallas-store-boost-walk-traffic-after-less-two-years With Tenoversix moving over to Forty Five Ten, what are they going to do with the current Tenoversix space? They are also apparently converting the third floor...

Tucy

^ So, the five year estimate looks for about 10,000 new residents a year in the Greater Downtown Dallas Area.... that data does follow the trend of the past decade, and considering contemporary housing complexes hold twice or a little more residents than the two-generation garden apartments current...

Tucy

The question arose in another thread about whether Northpark has plans to add a hotel. I've done some web searching and can find no indication that the owners of Northpark have any such plans. The closest I've found is pure speculation by a journalist. Can anyone find a source for the idea that the ...

Tucy

Are there any plans to build a Hotel on North Park grounds? If we get another hotel tower, similar to the Sheraton by the Galleria, this would create a nice little cluster. Yes, there has been some discussion about that on the NorthPark thread. Maybe something will be proposed sooner than later, th...

Tucy

The 2nd Avenue subway is a good example. The net new ridership is probably minimal (a few fewer taxi rides from Yorkville), with most of the ridership simply diverted from the 4/5/6. But the benefit is massive, with reduced crowding on the 4/5/6 (which helps with delays as well as comfort), reduced...

Tucy

There are no plans, currently. But it's safe to say there will be plans for more eventually. This is just a case of DART being pro-active rather than re-active. Why wait until the bottleneck is actually a problem to scramble and try and get D2 built. Adding something like the D2 takes a lot of time...

Tucy

For a more accurate rendering of the story: https://www.bisnow.com/dallas-ft-worth/news/office/downtown-office-building-signs-slew-of-leases-88558 Great news! The author of this one had a doozy of a TL;DR link in the story. For reference, Kylde Warren is 5 acres. Pacific Plaza Park is being built a...

Tucy

But ridership is the purpose of transit, is it not? The point of all these other improvements (resilience/redundancy, operational flexibility, decreased travel times, increased potential capacity) is to increase ridership. And yet, by their own estimation, D2 barely moves the needle. D2 is more of ...

Tucy

I45Tex wrote: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.

What central transit projects are going to raise ridership?

Tucy

[url][/url] Downtown Dallas' landmark Republic Center lands new tenants https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/05/17/downtown-dallas-landmark-republic-center-lands-new-tenants The high-rise - built in 1964 for Republic National Bank - is located across the street from where constructio...

Tucy

3. Regardless, new ridership isn't so much the point of D2, whereas it is the sole reason for CB. Resilience/redundancy, operational flexibility, decreased travel times for existing riders, increased potential capacity.. D2 is pretty good at improving what it's meant to improve, while CB (with new ...

Tucy

New report: Dallas' skyline has most room to grow of any U.S. city https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/05/17/new-report-dallas-skyline-room-grow-us-city For all the progress made, we have more vacant land (86 acres) than any other CBD in the nation. Not surprising when you look at ...

Tucy

I started to read this editorial, but had to pause after the first sentence: hundreds of thousands of fans? Is that right, hundreds of thousands? http://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/nightlife/sports-scene/article151886887.html 2017 Byron Nelson attendance Official attendance for the week of ...

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Tucy

BBB Cafe is the new name. The motorcycle tie-in out the door. It's simply Butler Brothers Building Cafe. The Motopia sign is coming down since they are no longer tied to the concept of a cafe/motorcycle club. Let's put it this way there is a reason Alterra/Turkish Mike doesn't propose projects in D...

Tucy

At first glance, that Motopia sign looks like the BMW logo. And although so much better than what was there before, this development is a major disappointment design-wise. The owner of Motopia said they changed the name of the restaurant. I already forgot what he told me but it should be open on Mo...

Tucy

ArtVandelay wrote:I checked out the Ascension Annex yesterday. The plaza at Fountain Place is really chill. Looking forward to the activity once AMLI finishes and more restaurants/retail move in. Also hoping the "nub" to the garage facing Ross gets built.

Any sign of them finishing the garage?

Tucy

Texas Live — still a maze of concrete next to Rangers' new ballpark — sets ambitious summer opening https://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlington/2018/05/08/texas-live-still-maze-concrete-next-rangers-new-ballpark-sets-ambitious-summer-opening Side note... I don't know what the attendance was for yeste...

Tucy

How is the Omni Hotel and restaurant annex doing? Is it turning a profit? Has the city had to dip into the $30-50 million reserve fund to pay the mortgage? Did the hotel meet the goal to bring more of the biggest conventions to town? How is the RevPar relative to other big convention/meeting hotels...

Tucy

April 2018

4 units sold. 11 sold in 5 months. 147 remaining.

Tucy

April 2018

One unit sold.
94 sold in 65 months. (1.45 per month) 21 remaining.

Rolling 12-month sales: 16 (1.33 per month)

Sellout projection, based on the pace of sales thus far: 6 years, 8 months.

Tucy

According to them it will be 28 floors and that seems to be with tall floor plates with that raised floor system. Looks like it will be about double the height of KPMG. http://www.hallartsresidences.com/ There is no 13th floor. So really 27 stories. Emporis has it at 440 ft. (which was the FAA fili...

Tucy

Tucy

1. This is probably why the city of Dallas does not require a flat 1.5 parking spaces per unit. I believe the Code requires one space per bedroom, with a one space per apartment minimum. My only point has been that according to your stats, the regulations look to be very much on target and do not i...

Tucy

1. This is probably why the city of Dallas does not require a flat 1.5 parking spaces per unit. I believe the Code requires one space per bedroom, with a one space per apartment minimum. My only point has been that according to your stats, the regulations look to be very much on target and do not in...

Tucy

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 ...

Tucy

I was curious about parking demand in these places, so I checked out some census data on the number of vehicles kept at home. Uptown currently averages 1.42 cars per household. So the code requires providing more parking (1.5/unit) than Uptown residents actually use. Wasteful. To the extent that pa...

Tucy

I was curious about parking demand in these places, so I checked out some census data on the number of vehicles kept at home. Uptown currently averages 1.42 cars per household. So the code requires providing more parking (1.5/unit) than Uptown residents actually use. Wasteful. To the extent that pa...

Tucy

I have a feeling that it's easier to drop stations after the initial Environmental Impact Report, than to not have them on there, and try to include them afterward. That is probably why we always see more initially, and they get deferred later. But most of these stations are marked as 'deferred' in...

Tucy

FIFY : If we pretend they won't build the weakest 1/4th of the stations, you'll be hard pressed to find one with significantly less ridership than the less busy light rail stations. With stats like that, how could anyone be against it? :? FWIW, the EIS specifically says the DFW Pass-Through platfor...

Tucy

This tower will have 46 floors and a large design element on top. How is it only 2 feet taller than Museum tower? Several things come to mind: 1) According to some sources, including the architects, it may actually be 45 stories, not 46 2) Museum Tower has a pretty large design element on top too. ...

Tucy

Is this true? Taller than Museum tower? https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/04/19/victory-parks-new-tallest-tower-will-cost-138-million Chicago-based developer AMLI Residential is building a 45-story apartment on Field Street that will be downtown's tallest high-rise in almost 30 y...

Tucy

FIFY : If we pretend they won't build the weakest 1/4th of the stations, you'll be hard pressed to find one with significantly less ridership than the less busy light rail stations. With stats like that, how could anyone be against it? :? FWIW, the EIS specifically says the DFW Pass-Through platfor...

Tucy

I would surmise that they still plan to build it, but don't want to spend the money until they have some new tenants in hand. (The building is more than 1/3 empty.) I suspect they have the plans for the new garage ready to go. A parking garage won't take all that long to build. So they include the p...

Tucy

Good news on the parks, pretty hilarious headline that's obviously attempting to SEO the crap out of the Klyde Warren Park name. Editor: "I need a snappy headline for this article. Three new parks, you say? How big are they?" Steve Brown: "Well, each one is around 4-5 acres, so 15-is...

Tucy

ArtVandelay wrote:Marriott website says the hotels are opening May 2018.

I’m going to be surprised if this ever gets finished.

Now it says July 2018. (FWIW, when this project was first announced, the hotel was supposed to open no later than 2015.)

Tucy

A spokesperson @ ZOM in Miami replied to an email inquiry that I made last month that construction on the project would be underway by July . Who knows....We've all been around the block with this one for years now. I hope this moves forward soon. Did they say what year? ;-) (Just asking, because l...

Tucy

Nothing sold in March 2018. 7 sold; 151 remaining.

Tucy

I hadn't thought about this site in a while, but reading this thread made me look out the window. There are bulldozers out there right now clearing the site on the Pearl street side. The parking lot has not been touched yet as far as I can tell from up here. Cool! But how are they clearing the site...

Tucy

Probably what you are seeing is the base which is where the artist lofts are located. The tower portion is the only way the project can really financially work. The developer can not afford to just build a few affordable artist lofts on a pricey site in the Arts District so yes the tower is very mu...

Tucy

It is pretty funny to see what DART takes credit for. In their FY2017 Progress Report they take credit for, among others: Parkland Hospital Toyota Music Factory Westin Irving Convention Center Hotel Hidden Ridge and Pioneer Resources HQ The Toyota Music Factory website gives one a pretty good idea o...

Tucy

March 2018

Two units sold.
93 sold in 64 months (1.45 per month). 22 remaining.

Rolling 12 month sales: 16 (1.33 per month)

Sellout projection, based on the pace of sales thus far: 6 years, 8 months.

Tucy

September (as well as demographic info for counties/metros). Then tracts and block groups in December. Cool. I wonder Dallas finally will get to 4K in pop. density. Definitely would like to what downtown looks like. Smaller than the city level, everything is a bit lagged. The info we get in Decembe...

Tucy

tanzoak wrote:
Tivo_Kenevil wrote:When will Dallas proper census information be available?

September (as well as demographic info for counties/metros). Then tracts and block groups in December.

City population estimates will be released in May.

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