DALLAS FORT WORTH | Urban + Suburban P & C

[TexasBoi]

Holy shit the Azure looks good. Really tall. I knew it would be tall but not tower over the rest of the buildings surrounding it.

I also like that Ambrose project. Have they broken ground on it yet and are there other projects planned like this around the other future stations? I assume it won't take long to build that but that's great they are building it on the rail.

[DFW]

Icon Center
ICON Partners, LLC
http://www.ucrrealty.com/photos/prop...57540.icon.pdf

Does anybody know about this?

[TTU Arch]

^Icon was formerly Westmount. The original designers were SOM for the shell and towers and RTKL for the retail portion. That design is the collaborative effort of RTKL and SOM. Not sure the stance of who is working on what now as the design team has now changed.

[Owlhorn]

One Arts Plaza night lighting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd2HTYSEueM

[colemonkee]

^ Speaking of One Arts Plaza, I was in the Big D yesterday and noticed what looked like green mesh fencing near the top. I assume that will eventually be removed, right?

[Austin55]

my city is boring. The methodist mansfield medical center is the only one.Its now complete.Does anyone here know what big leuge(sp) dreams is?

[Atomic Glee]

Not enough Fort Worth on this thread, so...
Fort Worth Updates

Not 100% complete, but close enough for now.

Omni Hotel & Condos, downtown - under construction:







One City Place/Shops at City Place - redevelopment of one Tandy Center tower to condos and demolishment of Fort Worth Outlet Mall for replacement with street-facing shops, downtown - underway:



Two City Place - redevelopment of the other Tandy Center tower to Class A office space, downtown - nearing completion:



The Carnegie Building, downtown - under construction:





The Caceria Building, downtown - under construction:





Le Bijou townhomes, downtown - completed:

(Older photo)




Texas & Pacific Lofts, downtown - completed:





Texas & Pacific Warehouse Lofts & Retail - planned, construction beginning soon:





The Neil P. at Burnett Park, downtown - completed:







959 West Bluff Street Lofts, downtown - completed:

No photo.

Versailles condos, downtown - first phase completed, second phase planned:

No photo.

Cantey Hangar Plaza, downtown - under construction:





Tarrant County College campus by Bing Thom, downtown/Uptown - under construction:





Trinity Terrace City Tower, downtown - under construction:





714 Main redevelopment, downtown - underway:

(Photo by John T. Roberts)


Pecan Place townhomes, downtown - first phase complete, second phase under construction:



Pecan Place condos, downtown - complete:



XTO Energy restoration of Bob Simpson Building, downtown - mostly complete:



XTO Energy restoration of Petroleum Building, downtown - underway:



Montgomery Plaza, Cultural District - retail complete, residential under conversion:



So7 Townhomes, Cultural District - phase one complete, phase two underway:





So7 ArtHouse Condos, Cultural District - nearing completion:













So7 Shops & So7 RiverHouse Lofts, Cultural District - construction beginning soon:





West 7th, Cultural District - in planning:



Museum Place, Cultural District - under construction:











Village Homes Cultural District Townhomes: complete:







Lincoln at Trinity Bluff, Uptown - complete:



Palisades at Trinity Bluff, Uptown - nearing completion:



Villa De Leon at Trinity Bluff, Uptown - planned:





Pavilion at Samuels Avenue, Uptown - under construction:

No photo.

LaGrave Field mixed-use, Uptown - construction beginning soon:

No photo.

XTO Energy restoration of Swift & Co. Office Building, uptown - complete:

(Older photo)


Fairmount Lofts, Fort Worth South - first phase complete, second phase planned:



Oleander Lofts, Fort Worth South - complete:

No photo.

Pennsylvania Lofts, Fort Worth South - complete:

No photo.

Lofts at Modern Drug Village, Fort Worth South - complete:



Lofts of St. Mary's, Fort Worth South - planned:



Oleander Place townhomes, Fort Worth South - planned, construction beginning soon:



Mixed-use at Magnolia & Henderson, Fort Worth South - planned, construction beginning soon:

No rendering.

Max Mehl Building restoration, Fort Worth South - complete:



Baylor All Saints expansion, Fort Worth South - under construction, nearing completion:

No photo.

Texana Townhomes, Fort Worth South - first phase complete, second phase just completed:





Magnolia Green townhomes, Fort Worth South - nearing completion:



Magnolia Green office/retail developments, Fort Worth South - complete:



LaSalle Apartments restoration, Fort Worth South - complete:

[TexasBoi]

Great update on Ft. Worth and I like many of the new townhomes. We need to see more of them.

[Austin55]

Very good update

[TTU Arch]

New developer takes over 1600 Pacific redo
Lockey Capital's plans for 1600 Pacific get OK for HUD funding
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...c.35a85ed.html

07:58 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 8, 2007
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News

A stalled downtown Dallas redevelopment has been revived with a new owner and construction plans.

Lockey Capital Group intends to start work before the end of the year to turn the mostly vacant 1600 Pacific tower into more than 300 apartments.

Developer Curtis Lockey said Tuesday that the office redo has gotten approved for U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding. "We've put a whole new capital structure for the project together," he said.

Mr. Lockey said the former developer of the residential building, San Diego businessman Joe Sapp, is no longer involved in the deal.

Starting in 2005, Mr. Sapp's 3J Development LLC purchased three downtown office buildings that he planned to convert to residential: 1600 Pacific, the Praetorian Building on Main Street and the 211 N. Ervay building. The company also bought a 10-level parking garage next to 1600 Pacific.

The new developer and investor, Lockey Capital, is part of Lockey Investment Group, a Dallas-based investment advisory firm.

Mr. Lockey said he and his partners now own all of the properties and are studying redevelopment plans.

"We are going to start with the big gorilla first," he said.

The 33-story 1600 Pacific – originally the LTV Tower – was built in 1964 and has almost 500,000 square feet of space. The glass-and-stone tower, which was designed by architects Harwood K. Smith and Dales Y. Foster as the home for Ling-Temco-Vought Inc., cost about $16 million to build.

The 500-space parking garage with its distinctive concrete exterior was built in 1966 and designed by Harrell & Hamilton, the firm that designed NorthPark Center and later became Omniplan architects.

Dallas' BGO Architects Inc. did the current redesign of the building, which includes an outdoor pool deck on the fifth floor.

Most of the building's tinted glass exterior will remain.

"We are going to have balconies on every unit above the fifth floor," Mr. Lockey said. "That will have a dramatic impact on the exterior."

The Focus Group has been a consultant on the project and will do the leasing and management, and Andres Construction is the general contractor.

With redevelopment of 1600 Pacific, Thanks-Giving Square will have the largest concentration of converted apartments downtown.

There are already almost 700 rental units in the Republic and Mosaic buildings.

"Every new project that comes on line has a huge impact on what the street feels like and increases the residential population, which helps everything," said developer Ted Hamilton, who is completing the Mosaic building.

"Think what Thanks-Giving Square will be like when all those buildings are full."

[oreo]

hey 'yall', i have a few pretty crappy photos from my recent roadtrip

taken on july 27

lil bit of fort worth
fort worth cranes (not sure what it is):


texas & pacific lofts:


dallas:
victory park construction (and azure):


cirque:


the house:


not quite sure:


bonus: two bad shots of the w

[dfwcr8tive]

Second Ritz-Carlton condo tower going up
11:13 AM CDT on Thursday, August 9, 2007
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
stevebrown@dallasnews.com
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...n.1929153c.html

A week before the first building opens, construction is underway on a second condo tower in Uptown's Ritz-Carlton development.

Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. has begun building the 23-story Residences at the Ritz-Carlton phase two building at Pearl Street and Cedar Springs Road.

The 23-story tower will contain 96 condominiums and is set to open in mid-2009.

Homes in the $175 million project will range from $700,000 to $8 million.

Construction of the Uptown condo tower follows successful sale of 70 condos in the first building, which also includes the Ritz-Carlton Dallas Hotel.

"It's basically sold out – I think we have one unit left," said William Mabus, vice president of development at Crescent. "Phase two is 50 percent presold."

...

[Urbanartistry]

Can anyone tell me if there have been any new developments on the Hall Arts District Tower? Is this still on hold?

[TexasBoi]

Hey Oreo. Those were good pics.

[MarkyPants2023]

Originally Posted by Urbanartistry

Can anyone tell me if there have been any new developments on the Hall Arts District Tower? Is this still on hold?

http://forum.dallasmetropolis.com/sh...060#post263060

[dfwcr8tive]

Posh pad caps Mercantile redo
08:51 AM CDT on Friday, August 17, 2007
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
stevebrown@dallasnews.com
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...le.35a867d.html

Dallas business bigwigs used to gather on the top floor of the Mercantile National Bank tower to hash out big deals. But that was decades ago. And the perch atop the Mercantile tower gathered dust for years.

Now, thanks to a makeover of the downtown landmark, the former bank space is becoming one of the most exclusive residential addresses in town.Developer Forest City Enterprises has turned the penthouse floor of the 64-year-old tower into a swank apartment with 360-degree views of the city. The almost 3,000-square-foot home even has a glass-walled terrace with a front-row seat on the skyline." We haven't priced this one yet, but it's going to be expensive," said James Truitt, the Forest City vice president who's heading up the $250 million redevelopment. "After all, there's only one like it."

With work on Main Street's Mercantile building about 75 percent complete, construction crews are rushing to make a February opening date. Construction on a second, all-new apartment tower on the same block and designed by Dimella-Shafer Architects of Boston won't be done until October 2008. Contractors spent months demolishing a hodgepodge of additions on the east side of the Mercantile, making a big change in the appearance of the old office tower. For the first time in almost 50 years, there's an unobstructed view of the tower from the east side of downtown. "When those buildings came down you were able to see the Mercantile by itself, and now you can now see the historic details," Mr. Truitt said. "We took out 700,000 square feet of buildings to get to that."

But the east side of the art moderne skyscraper no longer looks like it did on opening day in 1943. As part of the switch from office to residential space, designers at BGO Architects added a series of balconies and terraces. Inside, the changes are even more striking. The two-story second-floor banking lobby with its polished stone and wood walls is being saved as grand retail space.

The more than 30 floors of former offices and banking back rooms are now mostly converted into apartments. "Out of 216 units, we have 50 different floor plans," Mr. Truitt said. Prices will average about $2,000 a month for a two-bedroom unit and around $1,400 for a one-bedroom apartment. From the rental units, there are sweeping vistas of the surrounding financial district. The lower levels on the west side face Neiman Marcus' flagship store. "You'll have a good view of their Christmas lights during the holidays," Mr. Truitt said.

Some of the historic office building will remain out of sight after the opening – including two big vaults in the basement and the former mechanical rooms. "The boiler plant in the basement was scary – it looked like it came off an old ship," said Dan Hughes, senior project manager

....

As part of the renovation, Cleveland-based Forest City has used environmentally friendly building materials in all of the apartments, including carpet produced from recycled materials and countertops made from crushed glass. "When we tore down the other buildings, we recycled 95 percent of the materials in them," Mr. Hughes said.

While the Mercantile tower is a holdover from World War II days, the interiors of all the residences are done in sleek, contemporary design."Our residents like the old and historic, but they want all the conveniences of today," Mr. Truitt said. Elevator lobbies will be decorated with vintage photos of the Mercantile building. And crews are saving some of the old marble and stained wood panels in the hallways."For Dallas, this is an iconic building, and we want to celebrate that," Mr. Truitt said

....









Mercantile building has a rich history
08:37 AM CDT on Friday, August 17, 2007
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...oz.2124573.html

• Started in 1942, the 31-story Mercantile National Bank Building was the only U.S. skyscraper of its size built during World War II. The War Department gave Dallas banker R.L. Thornton special permission for the construction. Since the steel for the building had already been fabricated, it wasn't economical to halt construction and reuse the metal for wartime battleships and tanks.

• Once the tallest building in the state, the $1.8 million limestone and brick tower at Main and Ervay streets was designed by New York architect Walter Ahlschlager, who did Manhattan's landmark Roxy Theater and the historic Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tenn. The building's signature clock tower was added later.

• Renovations to the original building and additions on the east side in the 1950s and 1960s obscured the Merc's original art moderne stone façade on the lower floors. Those additions have now been demolished, and the original exterior is being restored.

•Originally home to Mercantile National Bank, later Mbank, the building has been vacant since 1993. With about 900,000 square feet in the complex, it was the largest vacant office block in downtown Dallas.

•The Merc is being rehabbed into 215 apartments with two floors of retail space at the bottom. The first phase opens in February. A second building under construction next door will have more than 150 apartments and opens in late 2008.

SOURCE: Dallas Morning News research



Link: Read a 1943 Dallas Morning News article about the bank's opening

[Austin55]

whats going on in Arlington?
I got glory park,heres the official site,http://www.glorypark.com/ Its been mentoined once or twice here.
Does anyone have info on Mansfield Developments?

[dallasbrink]

Very cool...i was driving around down town saturday and i didnt have my camera with me. Im going to try to make it over there again here in the next week to get pics of everything. What can you guys tell me about Cirque 2, Akard Place and 1900 Pacific Ave

I dont know if anyone agrees with me...but arnt you ready to see them get started on the Calatrava Bridge, Woodall Rodgers Park and the Dallas lag of the Trinity Project?

[dallasbrink]

Originally Posted by austin55

whats going on in Arlington?
I got glory park,heres the official site,http://www.glorypark.com/ Its been mentoined once or twice here.
Does anyone have info on Mansfield Developments?

Nothing yet, but expect land moving to take place here in the next few months, most likely after the sad Rangers season is over.

[dallasbrink]

Originally Posted by austin55

whats going on in Arlington?
I got glory park,heres the official site,http://www.glorypark.com/ Its been mentoined once or twice here.
Does anyone have info on Mansfield Developments?

Nothing yet, but expect land moving to take place here in the next few months, most likely after the sad Rangers season is over.