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Originally Posted by mfastx
This looks great. Can't believe some people don't like it, I would love for something like this to knock out a few parking lots in downtown Houston.
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You are entirely correct about the enormous positives of this planned development. The Spire Dallas is going to take up block after block after block of surface parking lots, one story non-descript structures, or just plain empty land.
That particular area today that The Spire will be built on is really basically an eyesore because of what is there right now, so to remove the eyesores and replace them with attractive dense multi-building structures surrounded by acres of beautiful parkland, what is there not to like????
Yes, the 1.7 million square feet of office space contained in The Spire development could be equivalent to a supertall of 1,000 feet and 75+ stories, but that type of development would take up a much smaller amount of land and leave most of the undesirable surface parking lots still there.
With The Spire development, Dallas receives several beautiful and contemporary highrises (they look to be 25 to 35 stories tall) along with acres of landscaped parks to fill in a gap that currently exists between the Dallas core CBD and the One Arts highrise on the east side of the Arts District.
With The Spire, coupled with the 42 story 560 foot tall Museum Tower currently under construction, the Arts District will take on a very significant urban look and feel. And the street life generated by The Spire will be significant.
There are other prime development blocks remaining in the immediate or nearby area upon which signature skyscraper projects can still be built that will take the look and feel up several more notches when they are constructed. For example, the planned 1900 Pacific Avenue project at 700 feet tall and 57 stories and the planned Hall Arts District Towers which are twin 50 story skyscrapers.
In fact, the Hall Arts District Tower block immediately across from the Meyerson Symphony Center could be a prime development block for a supertall since it already has a significant underground parking garage built and functioning on it. Otherwise the original plans for the Hall development block call for twin 50 story skyscrapers to be built in two phases on top of the existing underground garage.
All in all, covering 11.3 acres The Spire is just what the doctor ordered for that particular part of Downtown Dallas.