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I'm really looking forward to that art centerpiece in the middle of the plaza. It looks like a giant hand pulled up the pavement to reveal a big video screen. If done right, this could be our version of the Bean, unlike the giant eyeball which is not accessible to the public and coincidentally came ...

Dallas' Victory Park gets its sushi back with new Kent Rathbun spot
http://dallas.culturemap.com/news/resta ... tory-park/

Imōto, the Japanese word for "little sister," will open at 2400 Victory Park Ln. on June 7.

Here's a link to a video showing animation of the new entrance on Commerce. https://twitter.com/KenKalthoffNBC5/status/998630394911252482 Also, if you look at the new floor plans it looks like the AT&T store is closing and moving into the larger footprint on Jackson St with the giant Taylor Swif...

Any guesses as to what Project Apollo might be? Apollo sounds a lot Apple but we'll see.

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Glad to see the plans evolve into something more tangible: the two-story food hall was a no-brainer. https://dallasnews.imgix.net/1526677835-180515---Open-House-Posters--Diversity-Edits4.jpg https://dallasnews.imgix.net/1526677799-180515---Open-House-Posters--Diversity-Edits3.jpg Would be fun if at ...

Chef Nick Badovinus to open not one but two concepts in downtown Dallas http://dallas.culturemap.com/news/city-life/05-18-18-downtown-dallas-east-quarter-nick-badovinus/ Called National Anthem, the restaurant will open in the triangular Magnolia Oil building as part of a new district being formed o...

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 ...

I know one of the people who posted a one-star review and I believe him 100%. It's amazing that Centurion didn't fix the condensation problem in the windows and even more absurd that they terminated leases just to accommodate those short-term rentals. Sounds like a complete disaster over there. http...

https://dallasnews.imgix.net/1526505307-C01-EAST-QUARTER.jpg I like the name and I like that they don't have some over-the-top, unattainable vision for the area. I do think it would be great to have some skinny residential buildings throughout to give it some use variety. Also, I was sure the annou...

Not exactly Mockingbird Station, but good to see new residential popping up with access to Ridgewood Trail. Now if only DART would get their act together and develop their parking lot across from this. Owner of Central Expressway office near SMU eyes plan to add two residential towers https://www.da...

I believe the triangle in the center of this photo is Thanks-Giving Square in its previous life.

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http://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/items/show/72425

Not exactly breaking news, but it's good to know that whatever is planned for the Sol space involves an extensive renovation of the patio area. Maybe they'll replace that vinyl enclosure with something a little more permanent.

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It's just sad that Tim Headington put a huge hole in what was one of the best continuous facade pedestrian zones that could have been when he built his department store with a giant valet lot. Hopefully one day it will make sense to float some building over the valet area. These buildings look grea...

IMG_8286.jpg IMG_8284.jpg I've always assumed that Jose Luis Sanchez's "Astral Flower" sculpture in the original Pacific Plaza was not very well received, but I didn't know for sure until I was researching another topic. No need to read the entire thing, but the headline says it all. To m...

Had no idea these were going to be so lit. The lighting looks great! I'm hoping they did something creative with the sidewalk which I believe was supposed to allow some light into the basement below (or maybe I imagined that). Either way, looking forward to City Tavern opening soon. Elm Street look...

The new GoPass App is out now, and so far it looks like a huge improvement. My 30-day pass transferred seamlessly to the new version and I can now see busses and trains moving on the map in real time. Also looking forward to paying with Touch ID.

Good job, DART.

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Here’s Arlington’s (Failed) Pitch for Amazon HQ2
https://www.dmagazine.com/frontbuner/20 ... ncentives/

Alrington is out, which makes you wonder if any other cities just found out they are out.

I agree that the tone is quite dramatic, but I assume the intent is to push back as much as possible in order for TxDOT to meet us halfway with something better. I don't understand these drawings since I'm not an engineer, but for example in the image below does it mean I-30 shrinks from its current...

With most if not all of the demo & abatement completed, the building could go on the market tomorrow and it would be a steal for the next buyer. All of the hard work has likely been done.

I don't think it's accurate to say that Dallas folks demanded a "massive redesign" of D2. A subway alignment was one of the options from day one.

We knew this was coming eventually, but it looks like they're about to get started on No. XII at Moody St between Harwood and McKinnon. It's on page 96 of the CPC docket for this week: http://dallascityhall.com/government/meetings/DCH%20Documents/plan-commission/5-17-2018_CPC_Docket.pdf Screen Shot ...

Wasn't expecting this to start anytime soon, but they've been working on the expanded sidewalk/valet drop-off since the weekend.

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There are some good photos of the Butler Brothers in St. Louis here:

https://www.builtstlouis.net/central-co ... ing01.html

Lets you see more or less what the Dallas building would look like without the stucco.

I still have no idea why there aren't any Dunkin Donuts in Dallas. There was something about Jerry Jones owning the franchise rights here for years but that ended in 2016.

Anyway, that would be a good chain to put here along with In-N-Out since they're less ubiquitous in the city core.

Not sure this has anything to do with the hotel because it's on the other side of Hi Line Dr, but the sudden departure of FT33 could mean that more changes are coming. At the very least, this creates an opening for Oak or Pakpao if they decide to move. https://www.dmagazine.com/food-drink/2018/05/ft...

Yes, the scale of that building is perfect for that corner. But I won't hold my breath when it comes to Headington, especially what they've done to the Elm side behind Forty-Five Ten and that God awful driveway. This is what I'm worried about. His idea of an upscale Davis Building (Joule Residences...

There is a rumor going around on Reddit that Purple Onion is closing and that Ravenna is moving there. That would indicate that the building with Ravenna sold and there are plans for that space. Maybe Headington purchased it too? That's what we are hearing downtown, and Purple Onion has already clo...

Can the city force the owners to paint over the mural that still lingers on the building wall? The old "Cowboy versus Chinese man" motif has no business on that wall. It is literally a mural of a cowboy shooting a Chinese man. I am not Asian but even I find it offensive, tacky, and gross....

There is a rumor going around on Reddit that Purple Onion is closing and that Ravenna is moving there. That would indicate that the building with Ravenna sold and there are plans for that space. Maybe Headington purchased it too?

I was in San Antonio over the weekend and saw the original Hot Joy on South Alamo Street. This area of town is known as King William District or Southtown and is culturally similar to Bishop Arts / North Oak Cliff. Point being that picking Uptown for their Dallas expansion was the absolute worst roo...

Every time I walk past this building I imagine it as apartments. Even though this area of downtown is pretty built up, it's still really quiet. Apartments there with retail at the bottom would be pretty cool. I agree. It actually looks like a sibling of Corrigan Tower, and I believe I've seen rende...

Just curious to know what the tallest vacant building (after 1401 Elm) is downtown. I can only think of one, and that's 505 N Ervay owned by First Baptist. Shame that they're allowed to just hold that property when it could be generating tax revenue.

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^Now that is some good news!

Digital retailer Chewy bringing 500 jobs to Dallas' Infomart https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/05/03/digital-retailer-chewy-bringing-500-jobs-dallas-infomart A digital retailer with a major presence in North Texas is upping its employment with a new office lease. Chewy Inc., the ...

Payless ShoeSource plans to move multiple departments to Dallas https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2018/05/03/payless-shoesource-plans-to-move-multiple.html Topeka, Kansas-based Payless ShoeSource is opening a Dallas office, but plans to keep "select business operations" in Topeka an...

Dallas' Malibu Poke restaurant charts big expansion with 2 new locations http://dallas.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/05-03-18-malibu-poke-downtown-matt-mccallister-austin/#slide=0 Malibu Poke will open a second Dallas location at 2355 Olive St., in the new McKinney & Olive high-rise betw...

I haven't seen this one up close in a while, but does it look like the office tower is wrapping up? I would love to see Tom Thumb open in the next few months.

There's still an unusual lack of street-level fast casual dining in the CBD. I still can't believe Chipotle hasn't decided to reopen downtown, and you'd think that Pei Wei (newly based in DFW) would want to dump that shopping center for a flagship in the central core.

Demolition for the new Starbucks began yesterday and continues today.

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I thought the Masonic Temple was sold to a charity. It's not clear who the new owner is: Rob Baldwin of Baldwin Associates will only say that it's a "philanthropic organization that has nothing to do with First Presbyterian or the Stewpot." (A couple of years ago, First Presbyterian Churc...

The other retail news today is that TenOverSix is moving into the first floor of Forty Five Ten, leaving a vacant space on Commerce for now.

You need an acronym dictionary to understand the article though: https://www.dmagazine.com/shopping-fash ... -five-ten/

To be replaced by a Poke restaurant in 3...2...1...

I wish there was a good place for El Centros Culinary School down there. I know they were looking at a few locations like Fair Park but I think they could do better by having something tied in with the Farmers Market with a restaurant staffed some by students. Seems like many of the two dozen build...

Sorry for the topic detour, and yes I believe the logo is awful and the renovation embellishments try too hard to be "on trend". However, the basic premise of opening the lobby and adding a restaurant plus shade structure that engage the park in front are absolutely right on the money. The...

It's been a year since this project has been in the news, but the most recent Google Maps update gives you a nice look at the progress made here.

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Speaking of ugly signs and considering they must obtain a certificate of appropriateness from City Plan Commission, how was this sign for 1700 Pacific ever approved? Does that phone number even work anymore?

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Without a master plan for Turtle Creek and development that actually engages that enormous and underused asset, Uptown will forever be known as the test kitchen for the Texas Donut.

Circo Will Soon Be Dallas’ Most Over-the-Top Restaurant Nearly two years after announcing its planned expansion into Dallas, it appears that Circo will finally debut in Uptown at the end of May. The spinoff from New York’s now-shuttered Le Cirque will occupy two floors of the new 22-story high rise...

I don't know why you would say that. Have you ever been to the nearby Walmart? The place is bananas. This is where everyone from West Oak Cliff and West Dallas goes to shop. Both areas are growing quite a bit so they need more retail. This is also close to a lot of blue collar workers. My comment w...

There is one building they have already started, on the north side Melba I believe, that will have a pitched roof from the looks of the steel girders that are already up. Anyone know what that will be? Hard to tell what is what on their website, but maybe it's this: Screen Shot 2018-04-25 at 3.00.3...

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