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Austin55 · #**4561** Posted **Dec 9, 2016, 7:10 AM**

Gensler will be designing four seven-story buildings for American Airline's new HQ on the site of it's former headquarters, just south of DFW international. Expect work to start Fall 2017.

Austin55 · #**4562** Posted **Dec 10, 2016, 3:59 AM**

Fort Worth

Renderings of the proposed mixed use development along Henderson and Magnolia. Primary function is a 138 room hotel. 6 stories. Also included- 38 Resi units, over 5k sqft retail space, 459 garage spaces, wider sidewalks on Henderson.

http://www.bbptx.com/project/magnolia-hotel

Sic'EmBears · #**4563** Posted **Dec 12, 2016, 6:42 PM**

McKinney/Boll: A “Small” 18-Story Tower for Uptown

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Uptown residents will gladly be losing a neighborhood bar to see in its place an 18-story, 120-unit residential tower with a street-level restaurant.

Dallas Cothrum of Masterplan Consultants talked the City Plan Commission into recommending a Planned Development Subdistrict for his client, thus paving the way for the construction of the McKinney/Boll Tower at 2614 McKinney Ave. (southeast corner of McKinney Avenue and Boll Street).

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Cothrum has been laying the groundwork for this project for about a year now, meeting with neighbors and the Oak Lawn Committee to work out the details of a development they can live beside.

A two-story building on the site will be demolished. It’s been operating as some kind of bar or lounge since 2003 and since 2005 has been The Idle Rich Pub; there’s an appropriate name for a gentrified neighborhood.

Based on his meetings with the local stakeholders, Cothrum said their primary concern was that there not be another bar.

The project owners, Mockingbird Venture Partners LLC and M&M Venture LLC, agreed and in its place plan a 55-seat, 5,000-square-foot restaurant with valet service to ensure patrons to the establishment do not stack cars into the street. A potential for traffic congestion was another pet peeve of the residents.

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Another consideration in the design that Cothrum mentioned at the Dec. 1 public hearing was to mass the building’s maximum height toward McKinney and away from State Thomas, a historic neighborhood of single family, one story homes. The building has a tiered height and a rooftop pool faces State Thomas on the lower level. By right, there was no setback relief required, but the developers volunteered a setback to build consensus in their favor.

Residents of the McKinney/Boll Tower will have underground parking that is separate from the restaurant. The second story will be dedicated for a retail use.

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Current site:

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Chris Sapphire · #**4564** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 1:25 AM**

NEW TOWER going up in Downtown Dallas. Construction has already began on
this new project! It's going up right behind the Hotel Lawrence next door to Union Station.

http://www.mwbuilders.com/portfolio/projects/project/1525

R1070 · #**4565** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 2:19 AM**

Nice! I was wondering what was going there. I hope more spots in that part of downtown start to fill in!

Sic'EmBears · #**4566** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 3:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chris Sapphire

NEW TOWER going up in Downtown Dallas. Construction has already began on
this new project! It's going up right behind the Hotel Lawrence next door to Union Station.

http://www.mwbuilders.com/portfolio/projects/project/1525

It doesn't get much uglier than this.

drummer · #**4567** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 4:02 AM**

Hope that's one of the ones that looks better than the renderings...

Sic'EmBears · #**4568** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 4:07 AM**

New Harwood proposal on "The Oliver" site.

Taken today, by me:

Project Location

eburress · #**4569** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 1:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chris Sapphire

NEW TOWER going up in Downtown Dallas. Construction has already began on
this new project! It's going up right behind the Hotel Lawrence next door to Union Station.

http://www.mwbuilders.com/portfolio/projects/project/1525

WTH?!? They desperately need to go back to the drawing board on this one. What a big piece of sh!t this is.

Taynxtlvl · #**4570** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 4:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chris Sapphire

NEW TOWER going up in Downtown Dallas. Construction has already began on
this new project! It's going up right behind the Hotel Lawrence next door to Union Station.

http://www.mwbuilders.com/portfolio/projects/project/1525

Yes! Another Skybar/Rooftop bar. Never enough of these.

maconahey · #**4571** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 5:34 PM**

From Andres Construction Services' Facebook page:

Roman_Patrick · #**4572** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 6:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Taynxtlvl

Yes! Another Skybar/Rooftop bar. Never enough of these.

This was my exact thought!

Roman_Patrick · #**4573** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 6:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sic'EmBears

New Harwood proposal on "The Oliver" site.

Taken today, by me:

Project Location

AMAZING NEWS! I had no idea of such proposal, Great location as well!

Sic'EmBears · #**4574** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 7:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by maconahey

From Andres Construction Services' Facebook page:

These photos are one month old.

M-Line Tower is somewhere near floor 12 as of yesterday.

Thymant · #**4575** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 8:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chris Sapphire

NEW TOWER going up in Downtown Dallas. Construction has already began on
this new project! It's going up right behind the Hotel Lawrence next door to Union Station.

http://www.mwbuilders.com/portfolio/projects/project/1525

Interested to see how this turns out.

Thymant · #**4576** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 8:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sic'EmBears

New Harwood proposal on "The Oliver" site.

Taken today, by me:

Project Location

Wow already has a groundbreaking time frame set! These developments in are really picking up, nice find Sic'EmBears!

jshdodd · #**4577** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 11:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by eburress

WTH?!? They desperately need to go back to the drawing board on this one. What a big piece of sh!t this is.

I agree. This thing looks god awful and cheaply designed. It's design certainly does not compliment its surroundings. Horrible piece of shit.

eburress · #**4578** Posted **Dec 15, 2016, 12:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by jshdodd

I agree. This thing looks god awful and cheaply designed. It's design certainly does not compliment its surroundings. Horrible piece of shit.

hahaha - it looks like it's constructed with cinder blocks!

Thymant · #**4579** Posted **Dec 15, 2016, 4:02 PM**

^^^^^ I'm thinking/hoping that this is just a really cheap rendering kind of like the first one for The Katy and that the final product is a lot more reasonable because it does seem to incorporate a decent amount of glass. I'm just being optimistic.

clubtokyo · #**4580** Posted **Dec 15, 2016, 5:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Roman_Patrick

AMAZING NEWS! I had no idea of such proposal, Great location as well!

Nice!