Posted November 10, 20204 yr More details revealed about Hunt Realty's massive Uptown mixed-use project Plans call for 1.9 million square feet of office space, 895 residential units and an 83-story mixed-use tower. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2020/11/09/uptown-mixed-use-site-could-feature-1.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 10, 20204 yr nice. austin and houston get all the development news lately -- and the big d keeps it rather quiet. it looks like they have been trying to promote this field street district infill for quite awhile in dallas: https://www.kaizendp.com/projects/Field-St-District https://www.papercitymag.com/real-estate/field-street-district-dallas-downtown-brings-towers-hotel-apartments/
November 10, 20204 yr an interesting point and perspective that somebody posted on ssp -- and a reason why texas has now overtaken ohio as a more purple state: Downtown Ft. Worth to Downtown San Antonio = 268 miles DFW CSA: 8,057,796 Waco MSA: 273,920 Killeen/Temple/Ft. Hood MSA: 460,303 Austin MSA: 2,227,083 San Antonio CSA: 2,571,266 That’s a combined population of 13,590,368 people in a 270 mile north-south corridor along I-35. That would be the 5th most populous US state. It’s not the Northeast Corridor, but it’s pretty populated and a part of the fastest growing area in the US (which is the Texas Triangle).
November 10, 20204 yr I like Dallas a lot. Out of all of the Texas cities, it seems to be the most "grown up." Texas cities are like one big family...Dallas is the successful boomer who flies under the radar but makes insane cash, Austin is the artsy millenial, Houston is the old money grandfather, and San Antonio is that weird cousin who you don't see very often but shows up and parties way too hard during the holidays. Their development patterns match these descriptions as well.
November 10, 20204 yr I always enjoy contrasting the architecture of Fort Worth vs. that of Dallas. Personally, I think Ft. Worth has more character, which is why if this new high rise gets build, hopefully it has some interesting elements instead of just being a big old piece of smooth glass.
November 10, 20204 yr regarding the big texas purp swing politically, here is proof via the bbc. check out that mega dallas/austin blue swing nexus -- that's quite an amazing lot of political movement. as the state booms along, consider the historic hardcore repub reputation of texas is now nearly smashed:
October 6, 20213 yr Author A new TOD in the Metroplex... New Trio of Towers to Reshape Skyline at Richardson’s CityLine Three new glass-clad towers are poised to reshape the skyline in Richardson’s CityLine development. Dallas-based developer KDC today announced plans for a trio of buildings that will add about 1.4 million square feet of space to the $2 billion campus. ... CityLine was envisioned as a city within a city about eight years ago. At full build-out, KDC expects 30,000 people to live and work at CityLine. It’s one of the region’s “most successful urban, transit-oriented developments,” said KDC’s Walt Mountford in a statement. Located near the border of Plano and Richardson at Central Expressway and the Bush Turnpike, the walkable development also has 20 acres of dedicated land for public green space and sits adjacent to the CityLine/Bush DART light rail stop. More below: https://dallasinnovates.com/new-trio-of-towers-to-reshape-skyline-at-richardsons-cityline/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 8, 20213 yr Pre Pandemic I was spending a lot of time in Dallas. I do not like that city, outside of the shopping. Everyone wants to drive. The view on using public transportation is 10 worse than in Cleveland and everyone wants to live far out in a tacky tract McMansion. Morally, the city is full of adulterers. It's an adulterers paradise. I do not get the appeal. When I would walk for the W to my office, people would look at me like I was crazy. Then there are ton of racist AssHats who do not like diversity. I don't see developers building and selling out high rise developments.
February 6, 20223 yr Wow "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 6, 20223 yr ^ Wow indeed. That top photo wasn’t taken too long before my last visit there. For the last 20 years the only positive comment I have ever been able muster about Dallas is to say that it isn’t as awful as Houston. Maybe that will change after my next visit. My hovercraft is full of eels
February 6, 20223 yr Downtown doesn't seem to have changed all that much. But they've built an entirely new Downtown next to their Downtown.
February 6, 20223 yr 12 minutes ago, X said: Downtown doesn't seem to have changed all that much. But they've built an entirely new Downtown next to their Downtown. So their Downtown didn't just expand and there's no walking continuity between the old and new? I haven't been there in years--and when I had been there the five or so times I thought it was quite a horrible place. I was happy never to have to go back there.
February 6, 20223 yr I find Dallas to be architecturally bland. In the DFW area, I much prefer Fort Worth visually. DART has potential but it still amazes me that it was only recently that they connected it to their airport, considering how massive the airport is and how much O/D traffic it has.
February 7, 20223 yr I visited Dallas a couple times and also didn't care for it. I think that "new" downtown is a lot like Peachtree in Atlanta, or downtown Charlotte; towers with blank streetwalls, hostile to pedestrians, and inward to private space. I still have to visit Houston, but I'm guessing it's much the same?
February 7, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, Pugu said: So their Downtown didn't just expand and there's no walking continuity between the old and new? I haven't been there in years--and when I had been there the five or so times I thought it was quite a horrible place. I was happy never to have to go back there. The new neighborhood is Victory Park, which sprung up around the American Airlines Center. It's walkable to downtown, in an unpleasant Texas way ...
February 7, 20223 yr As someone who goes to Texas monthly, I can vouch that Dallas is very "new" downtown. I can count on one hand the number of historic buildings remaining. And outside of downtown it doesn't get much better. Miles and miles of sprawl with very little for traditional neighborhood development. TONS of money though, I will give them that. Ft Worth still has somewhat of a historical feel in a 2 mile radius around downtown. Downtown itself though has signifcantly lagged Dallas in development. Houston is a absolute mess. I could write a book on that city's planning mistakes.
February 8, 20223 yr lol i must be the only dallas fan on here. 😂 before they got sold, my spouse's hq for years was down there, so we would often visit together -- and i had all the free time to explore. i like the place. the shopping and dining, nice dart and the mockingbird station subway experiment, texas hipster lower greenville, doing the jfk death drive (and i highly do not rec doing that - yikes!), riding the historic trolley, the southside, museums, and driving around is fun. ft worth is cool too. even better in some ways. again driving around, sundance square, water gardens, cultural district, rodeos, even the cheesy stockyards. its not the worst usa city, err metroplex, to hang around in for a bit, that is for sure.
July 25, 20231 yr topped out in ft worth -- and the tower crane is now down -- Deco 969 | 311 FEET | 26 FLOORS more: https://southernland.com/property/deco-969/ via Austin55/FWUD
January 27, 20241 yr interesting plans for the tight field street district site — https://dallascityhall.com/departments/pnv/Agendas and Minutes/Field St District_submittal.pdf
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