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Originally Posted by Owlhorn
There is no trying. There a suburban strip immediately north of this building. they are tearing out one of the few remaining parcels of Uptown and building a suburban CVS. Across the freeway they are building a friggin Sams. In each instance, the developer successfully changed zoning from high density office to low density retail which has generous parking requirements. Seriously, I'm about done with this city. Next move might as well be in the burbs. Dallas doesn't care about itself, just pandering to the threats of specific developers instead of realizing when others have done great work and would likely do great work again.
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And Immediately north of that there is a 222-unit apartment complex on top of a whole foods that's U/C. Shafers Plaza being built was a joke but at least this building adds to the density and will use Shafers as their "base retail"
Let's not forget about 2200M, Akard Place, the new Crescent Building, the revamp of VP (with 500K of Office, additional retail, move theater and thousands of apartments either just opening, U/C or about to start Construction) or the 2500+ apartments that are U/C or will be added with office conversions within the CBD
The CVS Lot was never rezoned...they are replacing retail with retail and stayed within the zoning regs to avoid any type of public hearing. Definitely not the best use of the land but also one where no one could really do anything about it.
The Sam's development is a complete joke. You can work around an acre of suburban type development but 16+...? The developer mislead people into believing this would be something more and the city staff put their rezoning on consent agenda at their public hearing (This leads you to believe that the developer mislead the staff).
The last 2 cases are what frustrates me about Dallas but don't let those projects overshadow everything else that is going on in and around them.