I don't believe that this is so bad and not every single project has to be such a wow starchitect building. I would rather see more people living downtown and in this area than get too caught up in exactly how it looks. The more people the better in turn can support more stores and restaurants in th...
My architect friend said that he was surprised that they were even going to try to keep the marble and not just resurface with a new material. Much cheaper and easier. It is apparent that they are not taking the easier cheaper way out with this project and that progress is happening so I am going to...
Gating up the stations could also make for better security while waiting for the train. Anyone have a guest what it would cost to create secured entry to the stations with ticket or phone app entry from outside like other cities.
I can't even remember the last time I saw someone checking tickets on a train. The honor system only works if it is policed heavily otherwise we need to gate up the whole system and if caught without a ticket the penalty is way higher.
Dean & DeLuca never made any sense to me going into Legacy, not their demographic. Highland Park Village, McKinney and Olive...maybe. Oh well it sounds like they are under the Amazon effect and going online like everything else.
Also noticed Emma has been missing in action for a while which is too bad. MATA needs to be ramping up to meet the new growth in this area and seems to be faltering lately. I know there are the detractors but at some point to meet the needs of this urban area it really needs to go all modern streetc...
If we put 150,000 more employees working out of downtown areabusinesses then DART would have very different numbers. It was built and planned as the hub being downtown with everyone filtering into to work there. The real question is why can't we get more large business to move downtown. Dallas may n...
I am pretty sure we just lost our chance at Amazon as this guy will be replaced with a tote the hard core republican religious element that will push through social issues that drive away big business. Ugh. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Texas-Speaker-Joe-Straus-Not-Running-for-Re-Election-453...
I was referring more to the easy wins that could be taken where there is mostly underutilized office space by infilling the space in between with higher density living and retail like market center. I realize other stations that bump right into existing neighborhoods will be more problematic but I t...
I used DART again to go the fair this weekend and was a great experience overall. The one thing that I think of when riding DART are the stations that could be surrounded by so much more living and density. Market Center is one I would like to see them develop all the way from the Infomart down to M...
I would love to see this happen just like I would love to have seen the Spire developement happen when it was announced but I am afraid this is looking like Spire. A big land grab but no tenants.
Imagine having the new AT&T campus and Amazon all in the same area of downtown. I like the Victory plan as it would build towards that edge of downtown and on the other side would be AT&T and it would all merge together.
I hate to say it but I think the Centrum redo is horrible. Cheap materials and lighting that does not look like any of it was handled by a design group and it shows. What happened to changing the clock tower out to an electronic board as shown in the original drawings for the redesign. This refresh ...
That pocket from the Katy Trail over to central bound by HP to the north and Knox to the south is ripe for exactly more of this type of height and density. Take the streetcar through Knox and turn it at Hester and you have connected it all up. It is mainly the Highland Park side that is freaking out...
We need to get more of these business relocations to happen downtown / uptown and not PlanoFrisco to fill up highrise condo towers. The tollway is no longer the Dallas autobahn as it used to be known, it might as well have a 40 mph speed limit with the traffic and the execs who can afford these unit...
Unless Amazon wants to be a city builder/statement maker I think it is time to get real and I think this will go to the DC area just like Google did with their 2nd headquarters. It fills all of their request and puts them on the other coast. I would love for them to land here and it would catipult u...
Does anyone know what the crane just across Northwest Highway and 75 from Northpark is for. Looks like they are building out the site at the curve on the access road.
I recently spent 10 days in europe and I was amazed how many medium sized cities had a great streetcar system that was packed with people. The obvious cities like Amsterdam and Cologne were great and I used nothing but streetcar to manuever. We are soooooo far behind in this country with trains and ...
One way to apply pressure is to form a citizens group with the people that live between Lemmon and Maple between the tollway and Oaklawn to address the parking situations on all of the side streets. Knight Street going south towards Maple has parking on both sides and is a very narrow street and the...
The complete street plans would have taken care of this by closing off that righ turn as well as made the street more friendly to retail and restuarant space. Unfortunately the bar owners squashed the entire deal as they said it would get in the way of thier beer truck deliveries. I went to the plan...
I am still hoping that no activity or announcement for this site is due to a larger planned development incorporating a Central Market within it. Otherwise get the store open already.
I think Maple ave. is becoming the street that can service the growing population that lives in that area with restuarants and I do think they will use that coffee shop. Cedar Springs really can't support nice restuarants as the giant regional and tourist bar scene drives away the local residents fo...
Imagine how cool if that Knox-Henderson station was open. I don't get the Cotton Belt line most of those people that live in that area would take Uber to the airport and even more so in the future. DART needs to serve the urban going forward that is where it will find riders.
We may need two systems DART for regional and DUTS (Dallas uban transportion system) for the urban city. Dallas really isn't being correctly served from and urban perspective. Many of us living in the urban core still have to use our vehicles to get around our area which makes no sense. If there was...
I surely think we are going to see a washing out of this industry as the margins are stretched too thin too many options and the commercial rents are too high to make a profit. I give it another year then the closings in mass.
Does anyone know what the status or plan is to move forward with the extension up to Knox. Is it about raising money (plan) or how does that even work with MATA. It would be great if there was something to generate some buzz with the public to get behind this and get it going.
Does anyone know why they have installed the cement center medians what look line the old I 30 moveable concrete HOV pieces on the tollway going south from LBJ to Downtown. It has happened in the last month or so with new striping next to them.
I lived over in the Sears lofts for a couple of years back when they opened. We were all pioneers over there with no amenities and downtown still had not begun to grow again and there was no uptown to speak of. We had to get on the highway and go to the Alberstons on Lemmon to get groceries. I will ...
If only they would build out the midrise apartments and retail around the open base of Cityplace tower they had planned a few years back. East of 75 just can't seem to catch the density that is happening to the west.
This would be a disaster and would halt the urban growth of Dallas in its tracks. The inner part of Dallas could continue to grow in density for decades and still not make a dent in all of this single family occupied land.
I thought I read somewhere that 1900 Pearl was courting them to move. Another spot would be accross the park at the Crow developement as it has restaurant space.
I still think a great hotel at Northpark would be a huge hit with all the Canada and Mexico shoppers coming here as well as other tourist. I thought at one time there was talk about a Four Seasons with a condo tower.
Remember the same thing happened with the CVS at McKinney and Lemmon where they tore down the Loon and now we have a parking lot and CVS where a 35 story high rise should be. Not sure what can be done about this and the worst part is that CVS and Walgreens tend to have very long term leases or worse...