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Old Posted Apr 23, 2013, 7:34 PM
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So the Oak Cliff gentrification is about to hit Jefferson Blvd



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvoZ9...ature=youtu.be
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Old Posted Apr 24, 2013, 12:19 AM
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So the Oak Cliff gentrification is about to hit Jefferson Blvd



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvoZ9...ature=youtu.be
The city is working to re-do Jefferson with a nice facelift also.
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Old Posted Apr 24, 2013, 6:43 PM
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They are already talking about looking to fund a streetcar extension from Bishop Arts as well. Really big deal, I think. Could change neigbhorhood between this and Bishop Arts forever.
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Old Posted Apr 28, 2013, 3:15 AM
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Westlake approves $500 million development

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By Judy Wiley April 22, 2013

A concept plan for a mixed-use development in Westlake modeled after European villages was approved Monday night after four months of discussions and meetings with residents. Westlake Entrada, formerly called Westlake Vallecito, is expected to include a hotel, dozens of retail shops, restaurants and a 3,000-seat amphitheater, plus 322 residences. The housing includes single-family detached homes and townhomes or villas. Apartments that were part of the proposal early on were eliminated after residents complained. After hearing that concern and others, developers Mehrdad Moayedi of Centurion American and Jeff Blackard withdrew the proposal in February and conducted design charrettes with residents to explore the ideas involved. The town Planning and Zoning Commission approved the revised concept plan for the $500 million development unanimously when the developers brought it back earlier this month.
http://impactnews.com/articles/westl...n-development/
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Old Posted Apr 28, 2013, 3:41 AM
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Developers begin site work for State Farm buildings in Richardson



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KDC is building the huge State Farm complex, which is near North Central Expressway and the Bush Turnpike in Telecom Corridor.

Dallas developer KDC has begun construction on the huge State Farm Insurance office project in Richardson.

The more than 1 million-square-foot office complex is going up near the southeast corner of North Central Expressway and the Bush Turnpike.

The State Farm campus is part of a $1.5 billion transit-oriented development
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/c...richardson.ece
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Old Posted Apr 28, 2013, 4:38 PM
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Bush Presidential Library Opening Ceremony

The Bush Presidential Library Opening Ceremony was this past week on the SMU campus. Here are some links:

Website:
http://www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu/

NY Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/us...anted=all&_r=0

Link to ABC news clip:
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/open...brary-19045252
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Old Posted May 2, 2013, 1:52 PM
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There are more updates to come showing construction updates, but to give you an idea of the activity in the Dallas. DFW led the nation for construction jobs this past year at 12,000 added jobs, Houston was second at 8,500 additional construction jobs. As far as metros with the largest overall job growth was LA and NY at 116,000. Houston was third with an additional 102,300 (total of 2,762,500 jobs) and DFW with additional 101,000 (total of 3,078,900 jobs).

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/20...s-second.html/

Dallas led the nation’s metropolitan areas in construction job gains as of March, according to data released today by an industry trade group.

The Dallas-Plano-Irving area added 12,000 construction jobs, or an 11 percent increase from a year earlier, according to the Associated General Contractors of America.

The Houston area was No. 2 with 8,500 new jobs, up 5 percent.

"Overall, construction employment increased in 152 of 339 U.S. metro areas, declined in 126 and was the same in 61, AGCA said. At the same time, U.S. construction spending increased 4.8 percent, or $38.9 billion, the trade group said. (However, construction spending fell 1.7 percent from February to March.)...."
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Old Posted May 2, 2013, 6:32 PM
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Developer looking at a new project in West Dallas. This is an area that has little to no attention given in probably a few decades while falling into decay. This is just on the west side of the Trinity River from Downtown Dallas. Great views and this will be another new hot spot for redevelopment in the coming years!

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/20...t-dallas.html/

"......Cienda Partners has kept part of the mobile home park with residential trailers and converted some spaces along Commerce into business and retail uses.

The tract is just a few blocks down the road from where construction is underway on the Sylvan/Thirty retail and apartment complex. Wood Partners is developing the rental units in that project, too.

And the developer built the nearby Alta West Davis apartments with more than 200 units.

If Wood Partners purchased the old trailer park it would be the most visible transformation yet along Commerce and Fort Worth Avenue.

The trailer park site once was the location of Pappy’s Showland, a popular Dallas nightspot in the 1940s and 1950s."
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Old Posted May 2, 2013, 8:27 PM
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Developer looking at a new project in West Dallas. This is an area that has little to no attention given in probably a few decades while falling into decay. This is just on the west side of the Trinity River from Downtown Dallas. Great views and this will be another new hot spot for redevelopment in the coming years!

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/20...t-dallas.html/

"......Cienda Partners has kept part of the mobile home park with residential trailers and converted some spaces along Commerce into business and retail uses.

The tract is just a few blocks down the road from where construction is underway on the Sylvan/Thirty retail and apartment complex. Wood Partners is developing the rental units in that project, too.

And the developer built the nearby Alta West Davis apartments with more than 200 units.

If Wood Partners purchased the old trailer park it would be the most visible transformation yet along Commerce and Fort Worth Avenue.

The trailer park site once was the location of Pappy’s Showland, a popular Dallas nightspot in the 1940s and 1950s."
This is really exciting and what has been planned for. I think Sylvan 30 finally starting was the real catalyst. I would bet we see more announcements soon. Perfect opportunity to create a great urban neighborhood with great access to the entire metroplex.
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Old Posted May 3, 2013, 5:57 AM
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Exclusive: Developers ready to give Dallas’ Victory Park project a reboot



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A rendering depicts a new four-story retail and office building and temporary shopping space across from American Airlines Center.

Developers who have spent a year trying to figure out what to do with Dallas’ Victory Park project hope to start construction in the coming months.
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/c...t-a-reboot.ece
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Old Posted May 3, 2013, 6:03 AM
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By Robert Wilonsky
May, 2, 2013

Two weeks ago Dallas’ City Plan Commission voted to accept the Valley View-Galleria Area Plan, which gives quite the extreme makeover to some 430 acres of prime North Dallas property. A dying mall and decaying apartments will be replaced with a sprawling central park, hotels, condos, shops and brand-new streets. Maybe, one day, even an underground DART station. Quite the big game-changer, as you may recall.

But in just two weeks, the plan commission will vote to rezone the entire area — bound by Preston Road, LBJ Freeway, the Dallas North Tollway and Southern Boulevard — and create the Valley View-Galleria Area Special Purpose District.

Says the proposed ordinance, “The Valley View-Galleria Area Special Purpose District is envisioned as the primary regional town center of North Dallas, characterized by an economically vibrant and environmentally sustainable mix of moderate to high density residential and non-residential land uses, supported by an enhanced system of streets and open spaces.”

That 18-page zoning ordinance was introduced to the plan commission with little fanfare this afternoon over a boxed lunch. There were far fewer questions today than there were during the public hearing at the Galleria a few weeks ago. The discussion took all of an hour, with Peer Chacko, second-in-command in the Sustainable Development and Construction department, spending most of that time walking the commissioners through the PowerPoint attached below.

Long story short, said Chacko: The area will be divided into seven subdistricts, each “walkable.” Pawn shops and check-cashing business will no longer be allowed; neither will drive-thrus and retailers larger than 7,600 square feet. This will impact 14 existing businesses, among them, according to a list provided by Chacko after the meeting, two Ace Cash Express locations, the Target at Montfort Drive and LBJ Freeway, a handful of fast-food chain eateries and Hawley’s Biliards on Alpha Road.

The pool hall and the fast-food restaurants can, however, apply for specific use permits to keep their doors open.

For now, though, the existing apartment complexes standing on the site of the proposed 18-acre park, the so-called Midtown Commons, will not be impacted by the proposed zoning change. Says Chacko, “They also continue to enjoy the right to development [on] their property under the current zoning.”
http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/2...xistence.html/
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Old Posted May 3, 2013, 6:32 AM
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More apartments in the works for Dallas’ Design District



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Dallas’ fast growing Design District northwest of downtown is getting another major apartment development.

Builder Alliance Residential is asking the City of Dallas for approval to build a 400-unit rental community at Market Center Boulevard and Turtle Creek.

The planned apartment project is next door to Alliance’s new Avant building. Alliance started that rental project in 2011 and it has more than 300 units...

The property to be used for the next development is now occupied by warehouse and showroom buildings and is on the banks of Turtle Creek.
http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/20...district.html/
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I love that attempt to replicate Central Park.
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This is great news...

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With high-tech sheen and a new bar, Reunion Tower’s observation deck will finally reopen in ‘early fall’
By Robert Wilonsky
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1:21 pm on May 3, 2013


Just this morning, a Core Reader dispatched an angry missive concerning the long-closed observation deck at Reunion Tower. Writes Robert Eagle, he used to go as a kid and has long wanted to take his own children, but he’s convinced that it’ll never reopen — “a slap in the face to not only the people of Dallas, but to travelers from all around who recognize this as one of the trademark sites of Texas.”

Well, good news, Robert: It was actually open this morning for an event announcing that come “early fall,” the observation deck will indeed welcome visitors once again. And since this is Dallas, it won’t be what it was, but something bigger, better, brighter — “world class,” in the familiar words of Judy Pesek, a regional managing partner at Gensler, the design firm overseeing the redo for Hunt Realty Investments’ Woodbine Development Corporation.

Below, Pesek walks us through the fly-through of the new observation deck, which won’t just be an observation deck; far from it. It will be completely redesigned (with such things as “lattice-work lighting” and “diacrylic glass”), relighted and remade with a bar and cafe installed on the second level. The eatery-drinkery will be operated, of course, by Wolfgang Puck, whose Five Sixty occupies the rotating top of the tower. And over the bar there will be a “digital sky” that might make it look “stormy” one day and “sunny” the next.
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http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2...rly-fall.html/

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That midtown project is extreme, I sure hope that it gets built to its full potential and I guess I never noticed that the reunion tower observation deck was closed.
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Uptown Whole Foods/Gables Apartments & Townhomes

The site where the urban Whole Foods/Gables Apartments & Townhomes will be located in Uptown Dallas along McKinney Avenue has now been fenced off. I wonder how long it will be until we see dirt moving. The Whole Foods expects to have a 2015 opening date.
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The site where the urban Whole Foods/Gables Apartments & Townhomes will be located in Uptown Dallas along McKinney Avenue has now been fenced off. I wonder how long it will be until we see dirt moving. The Whole Foods expects to have a 2015 opening date.
I had forgotten all about this project. Glad to hear its really happening.
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In downtown Fort Worth

The Cityplace south tower is being re-facaded to match the north tower, upgraded to class A office space.

DSC_0401 by Micro55, on Flickr

The new Civil Courthouse has reached it's full height at 6 floors. It is two blocks east of the original courthouse. The current painted civil courthouse is being demolished.




DSC_0544 by Micro55, on Flickr


Sundance Square progress

Commerce Building

DSC_0438 by Micro55, on Flickr

Westbrook has started facade


DSC_0587 by Micro55, on Flickr

And the first phase of the Bikeshare program is completed. 30 stations and 300 bikes, I believe. Dallas should be installing a system this fall.

DSC_0560 by Micro55, on Flickr
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Work is finally set to begin on transforming the Continental Ave. Bridge into a park...

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After many delays, May 2014 set for Continental Avenue Bridge park debut (but what about the ‘threatened mussels’?)
By Robert Wilonsky
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8:44 am on May 11, 2013




Core Readers are well aware that the Continental Avenue Bridge’s conversion from vehicular crossing to pedestrian park is well behind schedule, as in: It was supposed to close to traffic in March 2012 (concurrent with the opening of the right-next-to-it Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge) and reopen as a would-be, wannabe High Line in August 2013. But all these many months later, there’s some breaking news out of Dallas City Hall: Construction on the bridge is due to begin in June, and the city has set May 2014 as the opening date of the park.

That’s according to the memo below, which was sent to the council last night in advance of Monday afternoon’s meeting of the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee. In coming days the council will be asked to sign off on a Trinity Trust-funded $8.35-million contract that will result in “shade structures, seating areas, meandering pathways for pedestrians and cyclists, bocce courts” and all the other goodies long promises for the bridge from IndustrialRiverfront Boulevard to the West Dallas Gateway, which is also part of deal. Council is set to vote on the contract on May 22.

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http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/2...-mussels.html/


http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/2...lion-for.html/
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Large Mixed-Use Development broke ground today.

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/ne...nd-on-the.html


I was wondering what they were doing to I-30 right there. This is such a nice location for views of the city.
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