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[Austin55]

FORT WORTH big near southside update. Video has pretty much everything covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOEbGmlGiSE

The biggest news is this rendering of the proposed new mixed use and income residential project just outside downtown.

[Sic'EmBears]

Thanks to WillieStark1 from Dallasmetropolis for a Park District update:
(Photo links to dollaztx Photobucket account)

[drummer]

Originally Posted by Sic'EmBears

Thanks to WillieStark1 from Dallasmetropolis for a Park District update:
(Photo links to dollaztx Photobucket account)

Hard to believe there's a freeway right there with how this photo is framed. Excited to see how this one turns out.

[Sic'EmBears]

Originally Posted by drummer

Hard to believe there's a freeway right there with how this photo is framed. Excited to see how this one turns out.

I agree.

Here's the concept plan for the entire block of a proposed 22-story Uptown apartment tower.

Both Phase I and Phase II are visible.

[Sic'EmBears]

Ethos Group leases all of office space in new Irving Music Factory project
Steve Brown
March 21, 2016

Developers of a mixed-use entertainment complex that’s under construction in Las Colinas said they have leased all the office space in the project to a single tenant.

ARK Group – which is building the Music Factory complex on State Highway 114 near Northwest Highway – said that Irving-based Ethos Group has leased 100,000 square feet in the office building portion of its development.

The company plans to move into the Music Factory office building late next year.

“Our primary motivation for leasing was to be in an environment that would allow our associates, clients and visitors to walk to entertainment venues.”

Scheduled to open next year, the Music Factory includes an eight-screen Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 8,000-seat Live Nation indoor/outdoor concert hall, other entertainment venues, restaurants and specialty eateries.

Full Article

[dch526]

New Plano rental community near downtown will include artist lofts

A new Plano housing community in the works will offer a combination of artist lofts and apartments near North Central Expressway.

The 224-unit development planned for a vacant block will provide affordable workforce housing in one of North Texas’ fastest growing communities.

“It will be a mixed-income community, and a little over half of it will be affordable based on what the resident makes,” said Jean Brown with the Plano Housing Corp., which is developing the 5.6-acre project. “It will be a transit-oriented development – it’s less than half a mile from the 15th Street DART station.”

Located at G Avenue and 14th Street east of Central, the project will have a half dozen apartment buildings surrounded by open space and public art plazas. There’s also a community center and swimming pool.

The smallest units in the rental community will be about 800 square feet and will start in rent at less than $500 a month for qualified residents.

“This project is for working families,” Brown said. “There is a shortage of this kind of housing in Plano and all of North Texas.”

The Plano Housing Corp. is working on a second development a few blocks away near City Hall.

“We will be doing 21 townhouses that are for sale, with seven for low- and moderate-income residents,” Brown said. “That doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s seven more than we have now.”

[Sic'EmBears]

Thanks to Lakewoodhobo from Dallasmetropolis for finding this:

Luxury condominium project planned for 1100 Peters Street in the Cedars neighborhood.

The project will sit adjacent to the Buzz Lofts and directly south of the Lorenzo, a 237-room boutique hotel set to open in 2017.

View map here

[R1070]

Demo work is being done at the site of the Union and lots of dirt moving at in the West Village!

[chris08876]

Some Texas related census data is out: http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press...6/cb16-43.html

[dollaztx]

City Council approves $11.25 million for Bishop Arts development

Dallas City Council on Wednesday approved giving $11.5 million in future tax reimbursements to Alamo Manhattan, the developer whose plans last year cause neighborhood uproar.
The $55-million project will include 200 apartments with underground parking garages and ground-floor retail at West Davis and Zang, on the sites where Sonic Drive-In, the now-closed Zoli’s NY Pizza and a collision repair place are now.

Alamo Manhattan could begin construction this summer.

[dollaztx]

Originally Posted by R1070

Demo work is being done at the site of the Union and lots of dirt moving at in the West Village!

Construction is kicking off for the 2-tower Union project in Uptown

Work crews have quietly started preparing for construction of the 2-story Union complex just north of downtown Dallas.

While sitework for the development has begun, a formal groundbreaking is expected within the next couple of weeks.

[TTU Arch]

Originally Posted by dollaztx

Construction is kicking off for the 2-tower Union project in Uptown

Excited to see this one get started. This will further help bridge uptown with the Victory / downtown area by eating up some parking lots and adding a more pedestrian friendly environment.

[bobbyv]

Originally Posted by dollaztx

City Council approves $11.25 million for Bishop Arts development

Why was the neighborhood in an uproar?

[dollaztx]

Originally Posted by bobbyv

Why was the neighborhood in an uproar?

This project is located in the Bishop Arts District, a really nice neighborhood in Dallas with lots of character. Due to it's popularity, it has garnered the attention of developers (like this one). Residents of Bishop Arts are really vocal because they don't want Bishop Arts to lose it's charm. In short, Bishop Arts is a down-to-earth McKinney Ave (an upscale pedestrian-friendly Dallas neighborhood). Residents don't want it to turn into another upscale neighborhood without character.

Although the previous proposal and the current one are nice, it's still an improvement from the previous one so overall the neighborhood is having a positive influence on developers focus at pedestrian level.

[futuresooner]

Originally Posted by dollaztx

This project is located in the Bishop Arts District, a really nice neighborhood in Dallas with lots of character. Due to it's popularity, it has garnered the attention of developers (like this one). Residents of Bishop Arts are really vocal because they don't want Bishop Arts to lose it's charm. In short, Bishop Arts is a down-to-earth McKinney Ave (an upscale pedestrian-friendly Dallas neighborhood). Residents don't want it to turn into another upscale neighborhood without character.

Although the previous proposal and the current one are nice, it's still an improvement from the previous one so overall the neighborhood is having a positive influence on developers focus at pedestrian level.

It's that and they do not want the traffic and congestion that is synonymous with Uptown. I don't blame them as most of the streets in Bishop Arts are not as wide and can't support a lot of vehicle traffic.

It's literally a double-edged sword, they want progress but with that progress comes undesirable increases in vehicle traffic.

[Dettmann1]

Originally Posted by dollaztx

This project is located in the Bishop Arts District, a really nice neighborhood in Dallas with lots of character. Due to it's popularity, it has garnered the attention of developers (like this one). Residents of Bishop Arts are really vocal because they don't want Bishop Arts to lose it's charm. In short, Bishop Arts is a down-to-earth McKinney Ave (an upscale pedestrian-friendly Dallas neighborhood). Residents don't want it to turn into another upscale neighborhood without character.

Although the previous proposal and the current one are nice, it's still an improvement from the previous one so overall the neighborhood is having a positive influence on developers focus at pedestrian level.

From what I gather, the uproar had more to do with the original design which lacked the character that residents wanted. The revised design is much much better and ties in better with the neighborhood. The revised design and announcement Zolis was closing anyways, took away most of the outspoken critics of the project.

[Owlhorn]

Originally Posted by Dettmann1

From what I gather, the uproar had more to do with the original design which lacked the character that residents wanted. The revised design is much much better and ties in better with the neighborhood. The revised design and announcement Zolis was closing anyways, took away most of the outspoken critics of the project.

The original project looked almost identical. The only change made was creating a setback above the first floor.

[Dettmann1]

Originally Posted by Owlhorn

The original project looked almost identical. The only change made was creating a setback above the first floor.

That is completely incorrect. The original plans showed a Red-brick rectangular block with no character at all. It was literally a stock building, all red brick and something you could find anywhere in uptown or several other locations in Dallas.

The final plan has varying wall materials, the setbacks, additional artwork on the facade, varying roof heights to break the roof up and several additional features.

[Sic'EmBears]

Nice to see more density in Preston Center.

Work starting on new North Dallas senior housing community
Steve Brown
March 29, 2016

Silverstone Healthcare Co. will break ground tomorrow on its new North Dallas senior housing community.

HarborChase of the Park Cities is on the east side of the Dallas North Tollway at Sherry Lane in Preston Center. The eight-story building will house 134 assisted-living and memory-care residential units.

Full Article

[Owlhorn]

Originally Posted by dollaztx

City Council approves $11.25 million for Bishop Arts development

original



we never even got to see anything final. Per Dallasmetropolis from the meeting, the major issues were the setbacks so it doesn't feel quite as canyon like and having more configurable retail spaces. The rest of the details were not even set yet. Funny that they fought for this and let the apartment portion of the Nazerian project look so modern. If anything, the original rendering looks far more authentic to actual old buildings in Deep Ellum, Cedars or the West End. There's nothing like that in Uptown. If anything the new rendering(only the Davis corridor building) looks more like the West Village or Knox Street than the originals. IF you look at the rest of the renderings published they look very similar to the other buildings in the original renderings and are far more Uptown than the Davis corridor building(building in the new rendering) in the orginal rendering.