DALLAS FORT WORTH | Urban + Suburban P & C

[Llyod Banks]

I hope these projects go thru

[jammin]

Thanks for the update Troy. Love all the mixed use residential/retail that are shown in the park propsals.

[JACKinBeantown]

I like the Woodall Rodgers bridge.

[CTroyMathis]

Victory Project Phase 2-3 and beyond update here:
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...threadid=29735

February construction photos of just a few places:

(The Prado at) Ashton Place by crescentboi: (top right from 1999 McKinney)


The Mondrian by owlhorn:


Drexel action by owlhorn:



The Marquis on McKinney has been done for awhile now, shot taken by owlhorn:

[CTroyMathis]

Art House by psukhu in January:


World Aquarium expansion by psukhu last August, then October:



1001 Ross in the West End, among very many of the
disappearing uber-drab parking lots in the West End - shot by
mikedsjr in January (World Aquarium adjacent...):


Tilt-wall action for multi-level book and coffee infatuation in the
further build-out of West Village - shot by psukhu in January:

Facade mock-up...by psukhu


Facade mock-up of Ashton Place by Jammin:


Marketing Center for the W Dallas Hotel & Residences going up soon. Maybe a model inside - eventually?
Zom Rosewood announced adjacent to Prado at Ashton Place.
Fram announced development of adjacent lots in West End (1001 Ross notoriety.)

Euless updated rendering (take it for whatever it's worth...):


Children's Medical Center MP:

New renderings from Victory! These are from the great flash animations of renderings available at http://www.victorydallas.com/masterplan.asp -- this development was, originally, very impressive. The scaled down version was underwhelming, but still much much better than nothing. This is... unbelievable. This could really change the very face of Dallas and bring us back into the spotlight. Or maybe I'm too obsessed with Tokyo-style-designs.

Here are some images

Victory Plaza (retail, leads to AACenter)



Victory One Tower (Office/Residential)






Victory Commons (residential)




I can't wait until Fall 2006! (projected opening for all of this!)

Two more renderings of different announced projects:

the Ritz-Carlton (BEAUTIFUL, will be one of Dallas' gems once it's done):


A new building in the International Center (may end up being the largest sub-division of Uptown once all is said and done. The 30-story residential tower, announced but as of yet no rendering, will be a great addition, too):


Notice in that second one the small brick building in the bottom left corner. It's an old school, St. Anne's, that is a historical monument. It, by law, cannot be torn down. I think it provides a very nice contrast to the spot: older, little building against a large, post-modern highrise.

[hunter wadle]

NICE! I wonder what all those cranes in Uptown will look like a year from now......Sweet!

[KevinFromTexas]

Hey just wanted to mention that I had the chance to FINALLY see Dallas at night. I know it's pathetic but I've been through Dallas several times but never have been through at night even though I've seen Fort Worth on a few occassions at night. We were coming back from Denton last weekend. I must say Dallas has one of the best looking skylines day or night, of course, but it's so unusual at night. I also saw Fort Worth earlier that day. Construction moving right along with the old Bank One Tower and of course Pier 1 Place.

Some construction updates, thanks to psukhu from DallasMetropolis.

Apologies in advance... these are HUGE images.






The big hole for The W Hotel and Residences @ Victory









The beginning of the Hotel ZaZa residences. I hope it looks nicer from the outside than the hotel does...









Apartments/Retail in the West End (another phase of this is due to start pretty soon, also human-scale, but slightly more impressive visually, IMO)









The Prado at Ashton Place









And last, my personal favorite, the Mondrian!

[Owlhorn]

Project Pegasus.


































Wow for the I-30 Canyon!!!!!!!!
















Including 2 Deck Parks

[Owlhorn]

Modrian(Formerly the Waverly)

[Owlhorn]

Merryvale(West End) To go up diagonally SW from 1001 Ross. Right next to the West End LRT stop

[Owlhorn]

Rendering at the Ritz-Carlton site

[Owlhorn]

Gables Uptown Park u/c on Cedar Springs

[hunter wadle]

nice!, So good to see all the projects going on....

[Owlhorn]

new announcement

Turtle Creek in line for another luxury high-rise
Developers plan estate-like setting for 60-unit building

11:41 PM CDT on Thursday, July 15, 2004
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News


A Turtle Creek high-rise is the latest contender in the race to provide deluxe Dallas living spaces.

The Cresta Bella condo tower will have 22 floors of luxury residences priced from about $1 million to more than $10 million each.

The classically styled building will have a three-acre park, a spa and room service from the neighboring Mansion on Turtle Creek hotel.

"We wanted to design something with the look and the feel of a grand European resort," said developer Larry Meyer. "We think we have identified the right niche."

Mr. Meyer has built two residential towers, the Plaza Turtle Creek buildings at Gillespie and Hood streets. Cresta Bella will be at Hood and Brown streets.

Cresta Bella will hold only about 60 units in a building designed by Robert Boyd Architects and Wilson Fuqua & Associates Architects. Mr. Boyd worked on The Mansion's restaurant, and Mr. Fuqua is billed as a historic preservationist and architectural historian.

Building details will include a two-story, mahogany-paneled lobby, private elevators to the residences and a lower-level health club.

The tower will have about four condo units per floor, and the penthouses will have 22-foot ceilings.

The wooded grounds surrounding the building will be landscaped to resemble a European estate, with fountains, waterfalls, gardens, swimming pools and a dog park.

These frills are a must to attract buyers moving from large homes in affluent neighborhoods, sales agents say.

And the Cresta Bella isn't shy about appealing to wealthy buyers. Advertisements for the high-rise promise that "your neighbors are few and privileged."

While the luxury condo field is crowded in Dallas, with several buildings on the drawing board, real estate analyst Mike Puls predicts that the Cresta Bella project will be a hit.

"Larry Meyer knows his market, and this should sell well," Mr. Puls said. "There are a lot of guys talking about condos, but there isn't that much really high-end on the market."

He said both the planned Ritz-Carlton and W Hotel condo projects, where starting prices are lower than at Cresta Bella, have done well in preliminary sales.

Mr. Meyer, who finances his own projects, recently began presales and is meeting with potential buyers. "It will take us 6 to 12 months to start this building and 18 to 24 months to build it," he said.

E-mail stevebrown@dallasnews.com

Cresta Bella IS Plaza III. For reference, the Mansion on Turtle Creek and Residences would be on the lower right, just off the map.

[Owlhorn]

A little High Five Progress report. The LBJ west to north/south and LBJ east to north/south ramps are open. The next sets are to open in August and October. Once all the flyovers are open, the HOV flovers will near completion and the LBJ main lane and service road construction will begin. This supposedly will begin the construction of the longest mined auto tunnels in the U.S. from the High Five to Midway Road 2 miles to the west.










Some of the colors going up. I still like the brighter green color









Much better pic of the model

[Owlhorn]

Urban center plans progressing
Officials 'pumped up' about possible mixed-use project
07:00 PM CDT on Saturday, July 10, 2004
By WENDY HUNDLEY / The Dallas Morning News


A long-discussed revitalization project that would create a town center for Lake Highlands appears to be gaining momentum.

Dallas City Council member Bill Blaydes said he hopes to make an announcement next month about plans for an urban-style development where people could live, work and shop.

"We're well under way in its planning," Mr. Blaydes said of the proposed project, which would require a zoning change and approval of the Dallas City Council. "We've got the core area under approved letters of intent" to sell property for the plan.

Mr. Blaydes declined to give specifics but said a developer is interested in building a high-density, mixed-use project near the DART light-rail line.

"It's definitely more than a concept. A lot of work has gone into it," said Mike Miles, DART's senior manager of community and member city relations. "It certainly matches the kind of [project] we like to see with transit-oriented development."

He said a group that includes DART, developers and city officials has been discussing the idea for months.

"We're pretty pumped up about it," Mr. Miles said. "I've never seen a group work together like this."

Mr. Blades said the development would create a sort of downtown area for Lake Highlands, a community now centered on Lake Highlands High School. He plans to give more details at a town hall meeting at the school on Aug. 24.

"The entire area has wanted a town center for 30 years," said Mr. Blaydes, who represents District 10, which includes Lake Highlands. "There is no downtown. We've got a dying retail system. This is revitalization on an urban corridor."

He said the development would combine offices, stores, restaurants and dwellings � lofts, townhouses and zero lot-line homes.

Although he foresees the possibility of some upscale apartments, Mr. Blaydes said most residences would be owner-occupied.

An increase in homeownership is seen as one of the long-range goals for District 10, which stretches from Northwest Highway to the Richardson border.

The area has a housing imbalance because 67 percent of residents rent their homes and many multifamily complexes are in poor condition, according to the District 10 Land Use Plan Interim Report.

As a whole, Dallas has a 57 percent housing rental rate.

The District 10 report recommends increasing homeownership from 33 percent to 50 percent. It also encourages development around DART light-rail stations.

"Diverse housing types are what we're looking for in District 10," said Shawn Holyoak, chief planner for the city's development services department. "Homeownership brings stability. A good, healthy community has a good mix of housing choices."

He said a town center could be the first project zoned under the urban corridor category that was approved two years ago.

"It's not been used except as the basis for several planned development districts," he said.

The urban corridor zoning category was designed to help builders "move away from the suburban development style where everyone has to drive everywhere," he said. It encourages high-density, mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented developments along mass transit routes.

"It's almost a back-to-the-future approach," Mr. Holyoak said. "It's looking at what we gave up when we got in our cars and went to the suburbs."

This "new urbanism" concept has been used at Mockingbird Station and Uptown in Dallas. It has also transformed a 130-acre field into Southlake Town Center and pumped new life into downtown Plano.

Mr. Miles, a Lake Highlands resident, said the area needs this type of reinvestment. "I think the community would fully embrace it."

Lake Highlands has a strong sense of community but "doesn't have an identity of where the town center is," he said. The proposed development "would bring focus and design to that city center that [Mr. Blaydes] envisions."

E-mail whundley@dallasnews.com

or call 469-330-1615

Lake Highlands is a neighborhood that takes up a large chunk of northeast Dallas. Its aply named because of its hillyness that overlooks White Rock Lake.

[Owlhorn]

Camden Farmers Market phase II u/c



The Farmers Market area is a true functional outdoor Farmers market much in the sense of the fish market seen in West and East Coast cities. Much different than the usual famer's markets you see in Texas. One can buy all kinds of fresh produce, hand crafted wood work, plants and large planting trees at the Market. In recent years townhomes, lofts and apartments have begun to pop up in the area built by Camden realty. They've converted two old warehouse buildings into lofts and build a large semi-urban apt community.