New Dallas Developments

[Houston19514]

fkp5:  thanks for the list.  I've made a few corrections and attempted to complete it with the projects in midtown and other downtown-adjacent areas:

For comparison, here’s a list of under construction projects in the greater downtown Houston area.

 

609 Main at Texas: 48-story office building

Market Square Tower: 40-story residential building

Hines Market Square:  32 story residential building

Marriot Marquis: 29-story hotel

1111 Travis: 24-story office building

SkyHouse Houston: 24 story residential building

1311 Louisiana: 16-story parking garage

Hampton Inn/Homewood Suites: 14-story hotel

500 Crawford: 8-story residential building

GHP Building: 10-story office/parking garage with plans for a 14-20 hotel on top

UHD Welcome Center/Parking:  5 story building.

Block 334: 5-story residential

 

3400 Montrose:  30 story residential building

The Southmore:  24 story residential building

Chelsea Montrose:  20 story residential building

Broadstone Skyline:  10 story residential building

Elan Heights:  10 story residential building

Alexan Midtown:  7 story residential building

Jefferson Heights:  7 story residential building

Dolce Midtown:  7 story residential building

Pearl  at the Mix:  6 story residential building

Hermann Park Plaza:  6 story residential building

3800 Main:  5 story residential building

The Hampstead:  5 story residential building

Midtown Arts Center:  3 story arts building

 

 

[arche_757]

 

Again, I ask, why is all this development going on when there's so much vacancy to be dealt with from overbuilding years ago?

 

Most of the renovation work I see starting to ramp up in Dallas' downtown is conversion from strictly office to multi-use - mostly residential/hotel.  I think if Dallas can eliminate some of the vacant space by turning it into residential space, then there may be some demand down the road for some additional office towers...even some that may be no taller than 20-25 floors.

[Houston19514]

Most of the renovation work I see starting to ramp up in Dallas' downtown is conversion from strictly office to multi-use - mostly residential/hotel.  I think if Dallas can eliminate some of the vacant space by turning it into residential space, then there may be some demand down the road for some additional office towers...even some that may be no taller than 20-25 floors.

 

Yeah, that's one of the theories downtown Dallas boosters have been promoting for 20+ years.  But they've already converted most of the available buildings and they still have 20+% vacancy, one of the 2 or 3 worst in the nation.

[JasnoDTX]

 

As long as we don't demolish aging buildings, there is opportunity for cool things to happen alongside new construction.  That's an asset, especially in the Sunbelt, where there are few such neighborhoods.

 

Agreed. I think both Houston and Dallas can agree that we wished we could have that beautiful anitiquity and architecture that they have on the East coast.  UGH!

 

Edited September 3, 2014 by JasnoDTX

[Avossos]

Agreed. I think both Houston and Dallas can agree that we wished we could have that beautiful anitiquity and architecture that they have on the East coast.  UGH!

 

 

I think the key to playing that up is PRESERVATION. For both cities. and using similar materials in modern uses.

 

So I went to SMU, and I know just how beautiful Dallas is. What is great about Dallas is the concentration of nice areas. Houston is spottier. Dallas' West End downtown is really really nice. It is important for that vibe to spread and be maintained well.

 

Overall reading the comments on this thread, I think we all should (if not already) start thinking positive sum. Houston and Dallas can improve greatly without harming each other... in fact the other's growth can only add to the success of the other city.

 

Transportation: in the next few decades, we will see connectivity much like the East Coast. I imagine these cities will all be connected by rail projects: Houston with Austin / Dallas / New Orleans / San Antonio (this reminds me alot of the NYC / Baltimore / DC / etc...)

 

For anyone insecure... I imagine Houston will always be the bigger city. Top rung of cities (size wise) is all near water or has a major port (NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston). Dallas is in a different category. Inland metropolis' (Dallas, Phoneix, Atlanta, San Antonio).

 

Cheers

[august948]

Transportation: in the next few decades, we will see connectivity much like the East Coast. I imagine these cities will all be connected by rail projects: Houston with Austin / Dallas / New Orleans / San Antonio (this reminds me alot of the NYC / Baltimore / DC / etc...)

 

 

Sorry for the tangent, but in all the discussions about hsr and the Texas triangle elsewhere I never considered future expansion to New Orleans.  I know that's pie-in-the-sky right now, but I'd be cool to eventually have an hsr route from San Antonio to Houston to New Orleans, with maybe a stop near the casinos in Lake Charles.  We could call it the "Party Express" and Dallasites could connect to it via the upcoming Houston to Dallas hsr.

 

[Avossos]

Sorry for the tangent, but in all the discussions about hsr and the Texas triangle elsewhere I never considered future expansion to New Orleans.  I know that's pie-in-the-sky right now, but I'd be cool to eventually have an hsr route from San Antonio to Houston to New Orleans, with maybe a stop near the casinos in Lake Charles.  We could call it the "Party Express" and Dallasites could connect to it via the upcoming Houston to Dallas hsr.

 

 

I think it is bound to happen. And I am excited about the future transportation in the area.

[D F W]

Downtown Farmers Market area booming!

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/residential-real-estate/20140904-hundreds-of-apartments-sprouting-around-dallas-farmers-market.ece

[Metro West]

I can't speak for how it will look in the future, but it's pretty ugly and forgettable right now. ZERO cranes. Some low rise 2 or 3 story suburban style apartments mixed into a dilapidated abandoned part of downtown. I never see anybody walking around during the weekdays. 

[JasnoDTX]

Downtown Farmers Market area booming!

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/residential-real-estate/20140904-hundreds-of-apartments-sprouting-around-dallas-farmers-market.ece

 

Awesome!

[JasnoDTX]

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Edited September 6, 2014 by JasnoDTX

[mollusk]

Jasno, I don't live in Dallas, but I'm pretty sure the picture you put up is taken from the north; if I'm reading the comments correctly Metro was beefing about the farmers market area down by the Concrete Canyon, south of downtown.

[Metro West]

I work in downtown dallas, less than 2 blocks away from farmers market.

 

Uptown dallas is booming and has several scattered cranes building a few 20 something story buildings. I see nothing of interest currently going on in downtown. Farmers market area has potential, but currently it is quiet and lifeless (at least on the weekdays). The buildings in the farmers market area are seriously outdated and not in a good way. They look neglected. The residential buildings in farmers market look like suburban style townhomes. If they fill in the farmers market area with more of those it could make a nice inner city neighboorhood one day. But the truth is farmers market area does not have any of the classic signs that it is 'booming' at this time. Once you go south of Commerce St. it is dead.  No cranes. No people. No Boom.

 

Quit trying to make dallas out to be more than it is. We all know what it is.

Edited September 6, 2014 by Metro West

[JasnoDTX]

 Okay I hear you Metro W.

I wish I could change the title of this thread to just New Dallas development. Instead of just specifying Downtown. Got myself boxed in.

 

Anyways some interesting news:

Developer wants to build a 37 story residential high rise in the Fair Park area. in South Dallas It would be the first of its kind since Southside seems is always neglected. It'd be awesome to finally see a tower(s) over there! Here's the story with video. Hope they can make it happen

 

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/dallas-county/2014/09/06/victor-russell-mmr-realty-advisors-high-rise-fair-park-cotton-bowl-tower-apartments/15163765/

Edited September 6, 2014 by JasnoDTX

[bachanon]

 Okay I hear you Metro W.

I wish I could change the title of this thread to just New Dallas development. Instead of just specifying Downtown. Got myself boxed in.

 

Anyways some interesting news:

Developer wants to build a 37 story residential high rise in the Fair Park area. in South Dallas It would be the first of its kind since Southside seems is always neglected. It'd be awesome to finally see a tower(s) over there! Here's the story with video. Hope they can make it happen

 

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/dallas-county/2014/09/06/victor-russell-mmr-realty-advisors-high-rise-fair-park-cotton-bowl-tower-apartments/15163765/

 

 

thread title updated!

[JasnoDTX]

Gratzi Bachanon.....you rule!

[Dallaz]

I work in downtown dallas, less than 2 blocks away from farmers market.

 

Uptown dallas is booming and has several scattered cranes building a few 20 something story buildings. I see nothing of interest currently going on in downtown. Farmers market area has potential, but currently it is quiet and lifeless (at least on the weekdays). The buildings in the farmers market area are seriously outdated and not in a good way. They look neglected. The residential buildings in farmers market look like suburban style townhomes. If they fill in the farmers market area with more of those it could make a nice inner city neighboorhood one day. But the truth is farmers market area does not have any of the classic signs that it is 'booming' at this time. Once you go south of Commerce St. it is dead.  No cranes. No people. No Boom.

 

Quit trying to make dallas out to be more than it is. We all know what it is.

 

 

 

 

 

The Farmer's Market is totally being redeveloped, so how does that not equal a boom?

 

Edited September 11, 2014 by Dallaz

[JasnoDTX]

Uptown's Frost Tower looking good. Lands prime tenant.

 

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2014/09/uptowns-frost-tower-lands-prime-tenant-for-top-floor.html/

 

A new Uptown office tower has landed an important business tenant.

An international family investment firm has leased the top floor of the new Frost Tower, which is being built on McKinnon Street near the south entrance to the Dallas North Tollway.

The Rochon Family Office has rented almost 9,500 square feet on the 22nd floor of the new highrise, which will open next spring. The tenant also has an option to take additional space.

Rochon joins Frost Bank as the first tenants in the 167,000-square-foot office project being built by developer Harwood International.

John Rochon Jr. said the new Uptown location will support the family firm’s long-term growth. Its office is now located in Plano.

“Our world headquarters is going to reflect not only what we have built over the last 25 years but even more importantly what we are in the process of building now and for generations to come,” Rochon said. “We want our company to attract the very finest professional talent, especially in specialized areas such as finance and accounting.

“We know that having our headquarters located in the heart of the city is tremendously appealing.”

 

 

 

[JasnoDTX]

Hall Downtown Highrise almost finished.

 

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2014/09/construction-on-downtown-dallas-tower-tops-out.html/

 

Hall Financial has topped out its new downtown Dallas office tower.

The KPMG Plaza is under construction in the Arts District between Ross Avenue and Flora Street.

The 18-story, 500,000-square-foot office high-rise will open in April.

Major tenants in the building include accounting firm KPMG and Dallas law firm Jackson Walker LP.

The building was designed by Dallas architect HKS. Turner Construction is the general contractor.

KPMG Plaza is the tallest multi-tenant office project built in downtown

 

 

[swtsig]

Uptown's Frost Tower looking good. Lands prime tenant.

 

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2014/09/uptowns-frost-tower-lands-prime-tenant-for-top-floor.html/

 

A new Uptown office tower has landed an important business tenant.

An international family investment firm has leased the top floor of the new Frost Tower, which is being built on McKinnon Street near the south entrance to the Dallas North Tollway.

The Rochon Family Office has rented almost 9,500 square feet on the 22nd floor of the new highrise, which will open next spring. The tenant also has an option to take additional space.

Rochon joins Frost Bank as the first tenants in the 167,000-square-foot office project being built by developer Harwood International.

John Rochon Jr. said the new Uptown location will support the family firm’s long-term growth. Its office is now located in Plano.

“Our world headquarters is going to reflect not only what we have built over the last 25 years but even more importantly what we are in the process of building now and for generations to come,” Rochon said. “We want our company to attract the very finest professional talent, especially in specialized areas such as finance and accounting.

“We know that having our headquarters located in the heart of the city is tremendously appealing.”

 

 

 

 

very odd that they committed the top floor to tenant taking less than half the floor.

[Avossos]

very odd that they committed the top floor to tenant taking less than half the floor.

 

Probably their best option / trying to create some kind of buzz. It just feels like they are trying really hard.

[JasnoDTX]

Nice recent photo of the Craig Hall/KPMG arts highrise.(On the left side with crane) Its not a tall skyscraper but it adds needed density/thickness to downtown. Can't wait to see more updated skyline pics with it included in the future.

 

 

 

 

[swtsig]

nice photo.

[citykid09]

New Park/Pedestrian Bridge in Dallas. I don't know the name of the development, but it use to be a vehicle bridge in Dallas. Very nice! Stay progressive Dallas! Don't let the haters stop your progress!

[Metro West]

[fkp5]

New Park/Pedestrian Bridge in Dallas. I don't know the name of the development, but it use to be a vehicle bridge in Dallas. Very nice! Stay progressive Dallas! Don't let the haters stop your progress!

 

Wow! Very nice. I couldn't even tell that was Dallas at first.

[cloud713]

New Park/Pedestrian Bridge in Dallas. I don't know the name of the development, but it use to be a vehicle bridge in Dallas. Very nice! Stay progressive Dallas! Don't let the haters stop your progress!

i think its the Continental Ave Bridge? or something like that.. an interesting concept but the end product is not as cool as the original renderings made it out to seem.

i hope those blue lights on top of the poles arent copies of Buffalo Bayous lunar lighting cycle..

[citykid09]

More pictures and an article: http://keranews.org/post/its-fabulous-dallas-continental-bridge-reopens-park-no-cars-allowed

 

 

Edited September 30, 2014 by citykid09

[ChannelTwoNews]

Question: When was the Chase logo placed on the Chase Tower there? Not a huge fan. One of the better sky lobbies out there, though access has been awkward in recent years from my experience.

[nativehoustonion]

Those are nice pictures looks very nice it is all about walkability in any city.  We should not mock the third largest city in Texas.  They have some good things to our north.