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dch526 · #**3361** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 7:09 PM**

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Dallas officials back DART’s dramatic downtown expansion plans

Some of the preliminary plans

http://dallascityhall.com/committee_briefings/briefings1114/TTRP_DartProjects_111014.pdf

dch526 · #**3362** Posted **Nov 12, 2014, 1:36 PM**

Dallas County sells the old Cabana Motor Hotel to developer likely to replace it with residential high-rise

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On Tuesday afternoon the Dallas County Commissioners Court went behind closed doors for a brief executive session, then emerged to vote on selling the property identified only as 899 N. Stemmons Freeway. With no discussion, only one commissioner voted against the sale: Elba Garcia. The purchase price: $8.7 million, or $500,000 less than the county paid for it in 1985. Garcia says she thought “we left some money on the table.”

As expected Lincoln Property Company bought the 399,000-square-foot property sitting on 3.275 acres near the Design District, and sources familiar with the negotiations say it plans to demolish the building and replace it with a residential high-rise and a data center. Messages have been left for Lincoln’s executive vice president of finance, Clay Duvall, who told us last month only that “we’ve looked at it a bunch of different ways.”

R1070 · #**3363** Posted **Nov 13, 2014, 1:00 AM**

That high rise location will be one of the best views in the city.

venshard · #**3364** Posted **Nov 13, 2014, 1:04 PM**

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That high rise location will be one of the best views in the city.

I agree, which is probably why Garcia disagreed with the closing price. That property gives a new definition to prime real estate.

dch526 · #**3365** Posted **Nov 13, 2014, 6:25 PM**

Developer says Dallas Midtown will begin taking shape on Valley View Center site in 2015

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So now it’s off to the convention center, where Beck and his brokers will try to sell their vision for Valley View — pardon, Dallas Midtown. Says Beck, Phase 1 could be begin taking shape by 2016. But, clearly, they’re in no rush. Not yet.

“A lot of the people we’ve been talking to are at ICSC,” says Beck, who’s hoping to leave with signed contracts. “We now have very concrete plans, very concrete timing and very concrete delivery dates beginning in 2016.”

dch526 · #**3366** Posted **Nov 13, 2014, 8:36 PM**

Developer says Deep Ellum project ahead of schedule

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Rohrman said big changes are coming in the Deep Ellum area, including a new 400-acre parking garage and a boutique and apartment development property owner Westdale Management has in the works on Elm Street.

“Westdale is looking at doing a 15-story apartment project,” Rohrman said.

Real estate brokers say that Westdale is teaming up with apartment builder StreetLights Residential to build the project adjacent to the landmark Knights of Pythias Building at Elm and Good-Latimer Expressway.

The historic fraternal building would be remodeled into a high-end hotel.

toxteth o'grady · #**3367** Posted **Nov 13, 2014, 8:42 PM**

I'm not sure I'm on board with them kicking out some of the retailers. Does that mean they're replacing funky with trendy?

dch526 · #**3368** Posted **Nov 13, 2014, 9:29 PM**

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I'm not sure I'm on board with them kicking out some of the retailers. Does that mean they're replacing funky with trendy?

No no, he said they're replacing the bad guys with the good guys

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“We took our occupancy from 65 percent down to 32 percent,” he said. “Not good guys wanted to lease any buildings next door to bad guys.”

toxteth o'grady · #**3369** Posted **Nov 13, 2014, 10:02 PM**

That's code for "we're replacing those smelly hippies with upscale merchants". It's not the Deep Ellum I remember.

R1070 · #**3370** Posted **Nov 14, 2014, 2:46 AM**

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That's code for "we're replacing those smelly hippies with upscale merchants". It's not the Deep Ellum I remember.

I think it will be a good mix. Most of these properties along Main street are vacant anyway. Elm Street won't be affected too much.

toxteth o'grady · #**3371** Posted **Nov 14, 2014, 1:56 PM**

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No no, he said they're replacing the bad guys with the good guys

These guys?

http://www.thegoodguys.com.au/

toxteth o'grady · #**3372** Posted **Nov 14, 2014, 2:00 PM**

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Most of these properties along Main street are vacant anyway.

Good place for a Dead Kennedys concert.

NYC2ATX · #**3373** Posted **Nov 18, 2014, 8:58 AM**

Not to be a downer but then again I think most of you will agree with me on this...I don't see the Dallas Midtown project (which looks spectacular btw) succeeding fully without a DART expansion to its front door. It wouldn't even be that difficult considering it's almost exactly in between Green and Red line stations on or near the LBJ. A connector line along the route of the highway would be a no-brainer, and would carry the added bonus of giving DART riders access to the Dallas Galleria at long last.

Owlhorn · #**3374** Posted **Nov 18, 2014, 9:39 AM**

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Not to be a downer but then again I think most of you will agree with me on this...I don't see the Dallas Midtown project (which looks spectacular btw) succeeding fully without a DART expansion to its front door. It wouldn't even be that difficult considering it's almost exactly in between Green and Red line stations on or near the LBJ. A connector line along the route of the highway would be a no-brainer, and would carry the added bonus of giving DART riders access to the Dallas Galleria at long last.

There are similar projects all over DFW with no rail. Rail would probably hasten the development though. The location should win out though above all once LBJ construction is over.

dch526 · #**3375** Posted **Nov 18, 2014, 3:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by NYC2ATX

Not to be a downer but then again I think most of you will agree with me on this...I don't see the Dallas Midtown project (which looks spectacular btw) succeeding fully without a DART expansion to its front door. It wouldn't even be that difficult considering it's almost exactly in between Green and Red line stations on or near the LBJ. A connector line along the route of the highway would be a no-brainer, and would carry the added bonus of giving DART riders access to the Dallas Galleria at long last.

There are very preliminary plans to eventually have a DART Line extension to the development with 2 stops. Since the overall development has a planned built out around 2030, DART has some time to figure out a way to make it work.

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Beck's already thought of that. He says there are plans for a subway -- "it literally goes underneath the Valley View Mall area" -- with a stop at Dallas Midtown. The possibility of this east-west rail line was built into the LBJ Express Project, he says.

"The outermost lane that's the closest to the north access road, between that and utility easement there's a 100-foot easement that could fit a subway."

The rail line, which would link with the Red and Blue Line to the east and the Green Line to the west, is years, if not decades away, if it ever happens at all.

"It's still a 'vision' element of the 2030 Plan, which means it is a project we would like to see happen but it isn't programmed," DART spokesman Morgan Lyons writes in an email. "No funding has been identified or set aside for it, so there is no timeline.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2014/04/dallas_midtown_developer_says.php

dch526 · #**3376** Posted **Nov 19, 2014, 11:17 PM**

DART shows off massive downtown light-rail track replacement with time-lapse videos

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Dallas Area Rapid Transit crews have spent the last few weekends replacing worn-out train tracks that date back to the halcyon days of the Macarena, which has necessitated parking its light-rail service — a necessary inconvenience, in other words. The work’s scheduled to wrap November 30 — though that’s a bit up in the air at the moment, given a forecast calling for 1-2 inches of rain on Saturday...DART’s been documenting these rail replacements, posting the results to YouTube

Video 1

Video 2

toxteth o'grady · #**3377** Posted **Nov 20, 2014, 2:19 AM**

Worn out? In only 20 years?

TTU Arch · #**3378** Posted **Nov 20, 2014, 2:51 PM**

^ This is typical, and part of routine maintence. Similarly in Chicago they use a car that goes down the elevated tracks spraying water on them during the summer months to cool down the steel. This helps to reduce / manage the warping that occurs from the temperatures and prolongs the lifespan of the tracks.

TTU Arch · #**3379** Posted **Nov 20, 2014, 6:11 PM**

Dallas's design district has been changing for years now. Here is a news story for what a developer is planning

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/dal...ues-for-dallas-design-district/19272753/

maconahey · #**3380** Posted **Nov 20, 2014, 8:18 PM**

Gabriel Barbier-Mueller to break ground on Harwood's Bleu Ciel
Candace Carlisle
Staff Writer-
Dallas Business Journal

After months of marketing a 33-story ultra-luxury residential skyscraper, developer Gabriel Barbier-Mueller is ready to break ground on Dallas-based Harwood International's latest project.
The firm plans to kick off the skyrise at the northwest corner of Wolf and McKinnon streets on Monday, Dec. 8.

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2014/11/20/gabriel-barbier-mueller-to-break-ground-on.html