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^ Yup. Prior to the construction of the Republic complex. That's Medical Arts in the top center.

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D2 can make the system overall more efficient and increase capacity and with the right structural changes and policy changes at DART, the trains we have can see an increase in ridership and use. Currently, DART's bad management of the trains and ignorance of the bus system is the biggest fault in p...

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Of course this would be very expensive but so is the Cotton Belt Line, and the CB Line is going to add very little ridership. Cotton Belt is another massive Dallas boondoggle. Embarrassing. People in those areas think trains are icky. Nothing is drastically going to change that. They moved to Plano...

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^ So you want to spend a billion dollars to add redundancy for the few hours a year the line is blocked? So would you support converting Greenville Avenue into an 8 lane freeway for when NCX is blocked?

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Having managed, leased and owned a number of properties in Garland, my experience has been that the city fathers expect the 635 corridor to develop like the DNT through Frisco. They've been expecting this since LBJ opened, and needless to say have been disappointed over and over. So plan on this pro...

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I think you people will eventually realize the CB and D2 are both equally important transit services. We need *both*. Strongly disagree with you here. I'm curious as to why you think the Cotton Belt is equally as important as the D2? Both are useless money pits. The Cotton Belt makes a little more ...

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^ Thank you for the reminder that I'm getting old.

Not.

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Tnexster wrote:
maconahey wrote:

Which one is this? Drove by it today and didn't see a sign. Looks residential but don't recall seeing a rendering.

That's the Stillwater project.

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Aha. You left that little detail out. :-) This is great news. Actually fairly surprising. Historically a lot of the DFW-FRA passengers has been on their way to India and its neighbors. The ME3 have been grabbing that traffic, to the point that a couple years ago the discussion was whether or not LH ...

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Lufthansa is upgrading from an A330 to an A340 in 2019 per Routes Online. Not really an upgrade. The two planes are structurally almost the same. Passenger capacities are about the same. Basically the 330 has two engines and the 340 has four, plus a center fuel tank the 330 lacks. The 340 has more ...

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tamtagon wrote:So.... in the spreadsheet world of paying taxes on profit the biggest company in the world gets a touch more public assistance to lease empty buildings draining neighborhoods.

So not paying taxes on income you didn't make is now considered "public assistance"?

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Tivo_Kenevil wrote:That Porsche tho..

Ain't no Porsches in that picture.

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The Gabrielle (first time I've heard it called that) now has two cranes.

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^ Dallas city hall.

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Few things kills creativity, distinctiveness and value as when the government tries to regulate aesthetics as opposed to function. I recall reading years ago about a beautiful Victorian house in Santa Fe. It's one of the most beloved buildings in the city. And for decades it has been illegal to buil...

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You do know how laughable this is, right? Michael Carroll has taken over as head of the UNT "Economics Research Group" from Bernard Weinstein. They're notorious for reaching whatever conclusion is desired by whoever is paying for the study. In this case DART takes responsibility for every ...

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They're rebuilding it again? It doesn't seem that long since the last time they did it. I'm guessing 15-20 years. It should last MUCH longer than that.

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^ You guys are just too young. There used to be plenty of cheap places in the 80's and into the 90's.

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It's been done successfully in many places with freeways just as central as I-345 (see the Embarcadero in SF or the Cheonggyecheon in Seoul to name two). Context varies, and projects can be screwed up, of course, but like.. it's not some crazy harebrained scheme that's obviously a boneheaded idea. ...

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Whatever is the outcome in the stay/go considerations, the primary mandate must be repairing the two surface street grids. With apologies to Johnny Cochran, "You can't repair what wasn't there." I-345 didn't haven't any significant effect on the street grid, because there wasn't much of a...

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^ You have a point. Since there are historically more fatalities on I-635 per passenger mile than on I-345 then my back-of-envelope estimate probably understated the number of fatalities that would result.

Thanks.

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I wonder if the models provide any estimates on the number of people that would be killed by removing the highway? For those going "WTF???", here are some reasons... - Limited access highways are by far the safest roads. Move a couple hundred thousand cars a day onto surface streets and yo...

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A relative of mine picked up several key properties along the Knox-Henderson corridor back in the 80's. From the north side of Knox next to the (then future) Katy Trail down to corner of Henderson and Ross. Holding on to those properties ate up a lot of cash over the years. In retrospect he probably...

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^ I've heard this will be a Tom Thumb gas station, but I don't have confirmation.

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muncien wrote:That said, I stayed at Swisshotel, and the Silver Smith (1.5 and 1 miles respectively).

It's a small world. I stayed at the Silversmith my last time in Chicago.

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Cities have been offering services like this for free since the 70's. Years ago there were signs on the highways with a number to call. Never got much traction in DFW for multiple reasons: Multiple employment centers so everyone is going in different directions, non-standardized work schedules and m...

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Banking the water is understandable, but at some point the loss of habit will need addressing -- the most logical solution to losing the Bois de arc creek is to recreate that habitat in the Dallas Trinity River Flood Channel. The map on https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2018/02/02/states-first-...

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^ Which totally sucks.

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mdg109 wrote:Also, I'm wondering what these pedestrian walkways will look like.

Panhandlers every 20 feet or so....

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^ Some of us have been saying that for 15+ years....

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^ Crane went up yesterday.

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That's the SEC of Canton and Malcolm X.

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Am I the only one who noticed the new video display on the north face of the building last night? Not particularly awe inspiring. Too small for the size of the building. Looks like someone just needed to check off the box labeled "animated LED lighting effects". Sorry for the low quality o...

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It just depends on what type of employee they are targeting. Google (and similar companies) target intelligent, focused, motivated workaholics without any kind of life outside of work. That's why they have 24 hour free food, onsite bars, gyms, dry cleaners, playrooms, etc... -- so the employees nev...

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Deep ellum needs an arcade. B4 has around 8 pinball machines in the back. The owner is looking at staying open late on Friday and Saturday and charging a cover for unlimited play. He's trying to talk me out of my Twilight Zone pin because the curio shop theme matches his store, but it's not going a...

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It shows that, from a branding perspective at least, names like "Trinity", "Bishop" and "Deep Ellum" are emblematic of Dallas. I don't think "Uptown" or "Design District" have the same weight. Ironically the Deep Ellum Bar is in Boston. So popular t...

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^ Sorry, I don't have time to go looking for those numbers. I'm sure you can Google them. I don't know what ridership projections you are referring to, but since DART LRT ridership has gone down every single year except when they opened new lines, any projections of increased ridership are suspiciou...

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AT&T plans to light up Dallas' skyline with new HQ display

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... hq-display

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I would add that it was the local news media who made news stories connecting the bridge to stories of pedestrian deaths. Possibly even a neighborhood group somewhere making such a ridiculous claim. They needed an angle to cover the story of the bridge and the deaths seems like a good angle but the...

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With that new pedestrian bridge connecting over Mockingbird I can see this overall area becoming popular as it also connects directly to DART rail station and off 75. Ironically the bridge is of almost no value to the people who live and work there. No one is going to walk hundreds of yards out of ...

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DMN architecture critic Mark Lamster on Novel Deep Ellum: "this is how you destroy a city" I'd be interested to hear how he figures that. It seems to me that projects like this are how you reinvigorate a city. His take (in my words): Replacing a significant portion (that's a BIG block) of...

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Tucy wrote:Link?

https://twitter.com/marklamster/status/ ... 0004012033

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DMN architecture critic Mark Lamster on Novel Deep Ellum: "this is how you destroy a city"

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The reaction here is the exact opposite of the people already in the neighborhood. Right down to people thinking the guitar sign sucks.

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All very real observations; thank you. You also forgot to mention the lack of accessibility (typical for its age), uneven pavement, and worn interiors. The downturn in garden maintenance started about 10 years ago when metal thieves stripped away copper electrical wiring (lighting), bronze drain gr...

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Primarily from the dog waste and surrounding dog owners, or more? The first thing you see walking in the west entrance is the gravel area covered in dog waste. Not one of the water features was working. What are supposed to be grassy areas are as much mud as grass. Lots of dead vegetation. The wate...

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I visited Thanksgiving Square today for probably the first time in almost 40 years. Absolutely disgusting and embarrassing. They need to just lock the gates.

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Back in the '80s I handled some bank REO assets in west Texas that had negative appraised values. You would have to spend money on environment remediation and/or demolition before you could even give the property away for free. I recall once getting a call from the Fire Chief in Floydada, texas to t...

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^ Projections for new riders -- not cannibalized from the existing line -- on the D2 line are in the range of three to four dozen a day. So cost per new rider will be astronomical.

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The bare concrete portions of the main building look really bad. I was hoping/expecting some kind of surface treatment to improve the appearance, but with the first residents already in that's looking less and less likely.

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