New Dallas Suburban/Exurban Development

[JasnoDTX]

The DFW is blowing up so to keep things organized this thread will be for anything in the DFW area outside the Dallas or Fort Worth city limits.

 

Feel free to add.  

[Sic'EmBears]

ViaWest to develop new Telecom Corridor data center as part of growth strategy

Candace Carlisle

December 18, 2015

Denver-based ViaWest has begun construction on a new Plano data center — its seventh data center in Dallas-Fort Worth — as part of the company's larger growth strategy.

"Dallas continues to be one of the hottest markets in the United States as it relates to data center demand," Myers told me.

The increased demand for data centers in Dallas-Fort Worth is tied to the growing corporate base in the region with data center companies seeking to locate near their clients. And ViaWest could build additional facilities in North Texas in the future, Myers said.

 

Full Article

[Sic'EmBears]

International firm Interceramic will move U.S. headquarters to Carrollton

Steve Brown

January 5, 2016

 

 

An international tile and building materials firm is moving its U.S. headquarters from Garland to Carrollton.

 

Interceramic will build a 330,000-square-foot office building in developer Billingsley Co.’s Austin Ranch.

 

The company will move about 150 workers to the project it’s finished late this, including top execs.

The new building will be constructed at the southwest corner of Parker Road and Plano Parkway.

 

Full Article

[Sic'EmBears]

Los Angeles-based investor plans $100 million makeover for Texas Instruments former Plano campus

Steve Brown

January 5, 2016

 

Regent Properties plans to convert the 84-acre high-tech center at Legacy Drive and Central Expressway into an office and mixed-use complex.

 

The new owner plans to renovate four existing buildings while looking at potential construction on 16 acres of undeveloped properties on the campus.

 

Regent says it will consider developments of restaurants, a hotel, and retail and additional office buildings on the site, which can accommodate up to 3.7 million square feet of construction.

 

Full Article

[Sic'EmBears]

JP Morgan Chase picks Plano’s Legacy West for new North Texas campus

Steve Brown

January 7, 2016

 

 

JP Morgan Chase has decided to move 6,000 workers to a new office campus at the southwest corner of the Dallas North Tollway and State Highway 121.

"We have signed the letter of intent to build at Legacy West,” JP Morgan Chase spokesman Greg Hassell said Thursday morning. “Construction is going to begin this year."

Within two years more than 13,000 people will be working in the Legacy West project – making it one of the largest new job centers in the state.

 

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[Sic'EmBears]

Fannie Mae looking at Plano’s Granite Park project for major office move

Steve Brown

January 5, 2016

 

 

After looking at multiple locations along the Dallas North Tollway, mortgage giant Fannie Mae has zeroed in on a West Plano project for its new regional headquarters.

Fannie Mae has an agreement with Granite Properties to locate in a new tower in its Granite Park development at the tollway and State Highway 12.

The mortgage firm has been scouting the market for up to 300,000 square feet of office space

 

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[Sic'EmBears]

950-home community planned for fabled Clements Ranch east of Dallas

Steve Brown

January 6, 2016

 

Developers have filed plans with the City of Dallas to build a 950-home residential community on almost 260 acres that for decades was owned by the family of the late Texas Governor William Clements.

 

The property located north of U.S. Highway 80 is on the shores of Lake Ray Hubbard.

“The grand opening we will time to be in February or March of 2017,” he said. 

 

The planned residential neighborhoods would be built with a series of parks and public areas.

 

Full Article

 

[Montrose1100]

Wow! If only they were looking at Downtown Dallas and not Plano. Still really cool projects. We share the same heartbreak with the Exxon Campus...

[cloud713]

JP Morgan Chase picks Plano’s Legacy West for new North Texas campus

Steve Brown

January 7, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

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wow, what a disappointment. I thought y'all were hoping for them to build a new downtown skyscraper? Agreed with Montrose.. nice for Plano. sucks for downtown. and yeahhh.. Exxon. ugh.

[nativehoustonion]

What happened to Dallas?  Everything is being built in Plano.  The 10 tallest skyscrapers in Texas under construction are in Houston and Austin.  Dallas has one. 

[JasnoDTX]

wow, what a disappointment. I thought y'all were hoping for them to build a new downtown skyscraper? Agreed with Montrose.. nice for Plano. sucks for downtown. and yeahhh.. Exxon. ugh.

 

?????? I've never heard of JP Morgan promising to build a skyscraper downtown.

When did you hear that?

Edited January 8, 2016 by JasnoDTX

[JasnoDTX]

What happened to Dallas?  Everything is being built in Plano.  The 10 tallest skyscrapers in Texas under construction are in Houston and Austin.  Dallas has one. 

 

I dunno. I don't control the money. All I know is that there's a crap load of short towers going up.. If I controlled the money I would have taken the money for 5 of those shorties and built something big. There are still proposals though. One may surprise us someday. Even without a skyscraper the uptown skyline IS changing and that's exciting.

 

The core is starting to take a Boston or Seattle type look to it and I like it.

Edited January 8, 2016 by JasnoDTX

[texan41]

What happened to Dallas? Everything is being built in Plano. The 10 tallest skyscrapers in Texas under construction are in Houston and Austin. Dallas has one.

The Dallas core is doing better than ever though. I think Houstonians need to stop thinking that taller always means better. Uptown Dallas is slowly creeping far far north and the development is spilling over into east and west Dallas.

I'm young but in my short life time I noticed how Dallas is so different than what it was when I was growing up in east Dallas. There used to be shootouts and bums all over old east Dallas but now you have developments attracting the similar type of people that uptown does. And they usually don't make it into these forums so it's been a quiet transformation.

[Montrose1100]

The Dallas core is doing better than ever though. I think Houstonians need to stop thinking that taller always means better. Uptown Dallas is slowly creeping far far north and the development is spilling over into east and west Dallas.

I'm young but in my short life time I noticed how Dallas is so different than what it was when I was growing up in east Dallas. There used to be shootouts and bums all over old east Dallas but now you have developments attracting the similar type of people that uptown does. And they usually don't make it into these forums so it's been a quiet transformation.

This type of transformation is happening all over the country, hardly a Dallas or Houston thing. Definitely not a Detroit thing... But you catch my drift.

[Sic'EmBears]

A first look at JP Morgan Chase's new regional campus at Plano's Legacy West

Candace Carlisle

January 8, 2016

 

 

With Toyota North America's $350 million, 2.1 million-square-foot corporate campus underway and Liberty Mutual Insurance readying its $325 million, 1 million-square-foot regional hub for vertical construction, it would appear J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s new regional hub could pencil out to more than $200 million of real and business personal property.

The 800,000 square feet of office space is expected to be spread out throughout a number of buildings. In an early rendering of the campus, J.P. Morgan Chase appears to have four mid-rise office buildings (attached).

Construction on the campus is slated to begin this year. The first J.P. Morgan Chase employees could move into the new campus starting in the second half of 2017.

 

Full Article

[cloud713]

?????? I've never heard of JP Morgan promising to build a skyscraper downtown.

When did you hear that?

I never said they promised anything. Only that people (on City-Data, among other forums) were holding out hopes that JP Morgan would build some massive downtown complex. Sadly they took the Exxon route..

Groundbreakings imminent, 8 towers:

40-60 story J.P.Morgan Chase mixed use tower (next to Trammell Crow Center), before end of year

Groundbreakings imminent, 8 towers:

40-60 story J.P.Morgan Chase mixed use tower (next to Trammell Crow Center), before end of year

25 story The Union Dallas office tower, 16 stories on top of shared parking podium, before end of year

25 story Skyhouse II residential tower, Aug. 11, 2015 per FAA schedule

23 story 1900 Pearl ("Symphony" Arts District tower), Lincoln Property, Sep. 25, 2015 per FAA schedule

23 story Hines Victory office tower, Sep. 30, 2015 per FAA schedule

22 story Cinepolis residential tower, Sep. 1, 2015 per FAA schedule

19 story Park District office tower, Trammell Crow, before end of year

18 story Oliver & Central residential tower, January 2016

Planned, 34 towers:

50-100 story Perot Tower

Twin 80 story and twin 60 story towers (4 tower complex near Dallas City Hall)

Harwood Forum complex, Harwood International mixed use towers (3.2 million sq ft of condos, office, hotel, retail):

-- twin ~60-65 story towers (connected by skybridge)

-- ~40-50 story tower

-- ~30 story tower (curvy design)

-- ~30 story Harwood XII office tower

50+ story The Lexi mixed use tower, Harwood International

46 story Cityplace mixed use tower

45 story Hall Arts mixed use tower

39 story 2121 Flora Atelier Arts District mixed use tower

32 story Residences at Park District residential tower, Trammell Crow

29 story Hall Arts residential tower

29 story The Union Dallas residential tower, shared parking podium

29 story The Oliver residential tower, Harwood International

24 story Streetlights Hall & Howell residential tower

24 story 2826 No. Harwood office tower, Harwood International

23 story "M" Line Streetlights residential tower

20-25 story Hillwood Urban 1, office tower

20-25 story Hillwood Urban 2, office tower

20 story Ltd Edition 2505 residential tower

19 story "Club Babalu" residential tower

17 story "Old Warsaw" office tower (14 story + ~3 story crown)

~17 story Dream Hotel

~17 story Virgin Hotel

15 story Westdale Deep Ellum residential tower

Spire Development, mixed use:

-- 30 story hotel

-- 30 story office

-- 21 story office

-- 13 story residential

12 story Two Arts office tower, Lucy Billingsley

Not announced:

Tim Headington holdings (across from The Joule Hotel and across from Fountain Place office tower)

Jack Matthews holdings (old "Dallas High School", West Dallas and The Cedars)

High Speed Rail development (possible tower or towers as part of HSR complex)

I didnt even know about the possible 40-60story next to Trammell Crow.

Also something is happening next to the 18 story Craig Hall arts center. I do believe they have begun the staging for the 45story. I noticed it a few weeks ago.

I personally dont believe all of the "big boys" listed here are going to go up.....but just imagine seeing all those cranes up at the same time if they did. 1984 all over again. It wouldn't look like the same city.

25 story The Union Dallas office tower, 16 stories on top of shared parking podium, before end of year

25 story Skyhouse II residential tower, Aug. 11, 2015 per FAA schedule

23 story 1900 Pearl ("Symphony" Arts District tower), Lincoln Property, Sep. 25, 2015 per FAA schedule

23 story Hines Victory office tower, Sep. 30, 2015 per FAA schedule

22 story Cinepolis residential tower, Sep. 1, 2015 per FAA schedule

19 story Park District office tower, Trammell Crow, before end of year

18 story Oliver & Central residential tower, January 2016

Looks like even you posted about a new J P Morgan Chase tower/complex in downtown..?

Edited January 8, 2016 by cloud713

[JasnoDTX]

Man you people are ruthless.

Anyways, I just copied and pasted that list from wherever and didn't focus on the details. I, actually never heard of JP Morgan doing anything so it wasn't a topic I'd discussed.

Besides that list I never saw it mentioned on SSC.

Edited January 8, 2016 by JasnoDTX

[Native Dallasite]

The JP Morgan development in Downtown Dallas across from the Trammel Crow Center is a totally different project than the JP Morgan Chase campus going in Plano  :

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/morning_call/2015/08/jp-morgans-mixed-use-development-adjacent-to.html

 

The Downtown Dallas JPMorgan development announcement contained so many apartments, condos, and parking that when initially announced it was speculated at the time the tower could reach 40 or more stories tall.  The 40-60 story estimate was made by me based on the information available at the time of the announcement which includes more than 350 apartments, a 227 room hotel, more than 30,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, and more than 2,000 parking spaces. 

 

If all of that were included in one building it would easily be more than 50 stories tall.

 

Since the initial project announcement on 08-12-15, more details for the development along with renderings were released on 10-28-15.  The Downtown Dallas JPMorgan development will be twin 26 story towers instead of one very tall tower:

 

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/first-look-at-new-downtown-dallas-tower-project.html/

 

The Downtown Dallas JPMorgan development is a totally different project than the Plano campus development.  The first portions in the Downtown Dallas development are scheduled to open the second half of 2017.

 

I updated my list of new towers in Downtown Dallas to reflect the twin 26 story towers: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=7143152&postcount=42

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JasnoDTX]

^Yea, what he said

Wish they would combine those twins! Ugh...lol

 

[cloud713]

Well that's not a total disappointment then.. Though all the planned skyscrapers are dwindling away into high rises.. :/

Still very confusing. No idea why that project is referred to as "JP Morgan Chase" when their offices are being built in Plano..

[Sic'EmBears]

Update as of 1/9/2016

 

Liberty Mutual Regional HQ

[Native Dallasite]

Well that's not a total disappointment then.. Though all the planned skyscrapers are dwindling away into high rises.. :/

Still very confusing. No idea why that project is referred to as "JP Morgan Chase" when their offices are being built in Plano..

 

There was no dwindling of the Downtown Dallas Chase project.  The 40-60 story placeholder was an estimate by me based on the very substantial number of apartments, hotel rooms, retail space, and parking that makes up the project.  The initial project announcement was in August 2015 with released renderings in October 2015 where the actual construction plan for twin towers was announced.  My early guess based on the substantial scale and scope with the August announcement, if contained in one tower, was just that.

 

Concerning why Chase is building two very substantial projects simultaneously in Downtown Dallas and its suburb of Plano is because Chase has around 12,000 employees in Dallas and its immediate suburbs.  6,000 of those, primarily from offices scattered in various suburban locations, are planned to be relocated to the new one million square foot Chase campus to be built in Plano.  

 

The Chase project for Downtown Dallas is not an office project but instead mixed use with hotel, apartments, retail, restaurant, and parking.  

 

Chase will continue to occupy its space in the JPMorgan Chase Tower in Downtown Dallas and The Crescent.  Chase's Downtown Dallas presence is not a part of the Plano move or will only be negligibly affected.  

 

A quote from Chase:

 

"Chase officials say its several hundred workers in the downtown Chase Tower won’t be significantly impacted by the office moves to Plano from several suburban locations."

 

Hope that helps clear up any confusion.

[Sic'EmBears]

Developers adding more apartments to meet growth in West Plano

Steve Brown

January 11, 2016

 

 

Dallas-based Catalyst Urban Development and LandPlan Development have just gotten funding for a 320-unit rental community on Preston Road at Headquarters Drive.

The 5-story Huntington apartments is on a 5.5-acre site and will open in early 2018.

 

Full Article

[Sic'EmBears]

Planned $170 million community in Frisco will include 350 homes

Steve Brown

January 11, 2016

 

Green Brick Partners Inc. said Monday that it has purchased almost 100 acres for the project along Eldorado Parkway between the Dallas North Tollway and Preston Road.

 

The development called Frisco Springs will include both townhouse and single-family homes.

The homes in Frisco Springs will be built around 20 acres of open space and trails. There will also be a community center with a pool, work out room and entertaining areas.

 

 Full Article

 

[Sic'EmBears]

Frisco’s plan commission will review details about proposed $700 million Gate project on the tollway

Steve Brown

January 11, 2016

 

 

 

Dubai-based Invest Group Overseas said two years ago it would build a $700 million mixed use project on the land it owns at Dallas North Tollway and John Hickman Parkway.

 

The project is called The Gate, and is part of what Frisco calls its $5 billion mile.

 

Frisco’s city planning commission this week will consider detailed site plans for the project that include almost 20 buildings ranging in height from about three stories to more than 10 floors.

 

The Gate includes “four office buildings, two retail/restaurant buildings and nine urban living buildings, six retail buildings and one hotel building,” according to Frisco.

 

The project as laid out in the planning documents will include more than 650,000 square feet of office spce, almost 1 million square feet of residential buildings, more than 130,000 square feet of retail space plus a luxury hotel.

 

Full Article

 

[nativehoustonion]

Had a great time In Dallas.  A co worker took me to Montlake Cut it was fabu!  Did see a lot of cranes mostly by Love Field.

[Sic'EmBears]

Mixed-use project in the works for fast-growing Wilmer south of Dallas

Steve Brown

January 13, 2016

 

View rendering here

 

 

The city of Wilmer just approved plans for the development called Liberty Crossing. “We see a lot of growth going on in that area but there aren’t many housing options,” said developer Richard Ashton. “We want to bring in sustainable workforce housing.

Apartments would be constructed behind the retail. “We are planning at each 144 to 160 multifamily units and we are working with retail partners to develop the retail and commercial portion,” Ashton said. “We are also looking at 68 rental townhomes and 90 single-family houses.”

Employment in the area in Wilmer and neighboring Hutchins has dramatically increased in the last few years with new warehousing facilities for companies including Procter & Gamble, Whirlpool, Unilever, Sprouts grocery, Ace Hardware, Arch Chemical and Medline Medical.

 

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[Sic'EmBears]

Construction gets underway on homes in Petro-Hunt’s $1B Forney community

Candace Carlisle

January 14, 2016

 

 

Construction has begun on the initial phase of single-family residential homes in Forney's long-awaited Gateway Parks, a $1 billion, 2,000-acre master-planned community that will bring 1,850 home lots to the North Texas suburb.

"We will have 440 home lots in the first phase and hope to have them done by August of this year," said Bain, who added that he hasn't partnered with any homebuilders yet on the home lots.

Other plans for the master-planned community include apartments, retail centers, entertainment destinations, office buildings, a hotel, medical facilities, distribution hubs and senior living facilities.

 

Full Article

 

Here's Gateway Park's brochure

 

Also, the 334 luxury apartment homes, called Gateway Cedars,

were fully leased before opening. 

[Sic'EmBears]

Yard House, Sur La Table and others to join Frisco’s Wade Park

Steve Brown

January 19, 2016

 

 

Yard House, which has one location in Addison, and the Mediterranean-themed Luna Grill, which has three locations all west of I-35E, will join three new retailers in adding to the lineup at the $1.6 billion mixed use development under construction at the Dallas North Tollway and Lebanon Road.

With more than 10,000 square feet of space, the rock-themed Yard House will serve more than 100 dishes made from scratch daily, along with more than 100 taps of beer.

Set to open in Wade Park’s first phase in 2017, the new tenants will join previously signed shops, restaurants and entertainment outlets including: Whole Foods Market; iPic Theaters; Pinstripes Bowling, Bocce, Bistro; The Rustic; Arhaus; Thirteen Pies; Steel City Pops; Torchy’s Tacos; Bread Zepplin; MiniLuxe; and The Lash Lounge. The first phase will feature about 600,000 square feet of specialty retail space. Boutique Hotel ZaZa as well as Texas' first Langham Hotels & Resorts hotel — a high-end high-rise — are also slated for Wade Park.

 

Full Article

 

[Sic'EmBears]

Ross Perot Jr.'s Hillwood Properties to put up nearly 2M square feet of development

Candace Carlisle

January 19, 2016

 

 

The new construction includes two industrial buildings in Alliance Westport and a third building in Alliance Center North.

Two of the buildings — Alliance Westport 18 and 19 — are located at the entrance of the BNSF Railway Intermodal Facility at FM 156 and Intermodal Parkway.

 

Westport 18 is being built to an initial total of 800,000 square feet of industrial space with the ability to expand to 1.3 million square feet. Westport 19 will total 360,000 square feet of industrial space.

 

The third building — Alliance Center North 15 — will total 588,000 square feet of industrial space and is located at Interstate 35W and Eagle Parkway. 

Construction on the three industrial buildings is slated for completion in the second quarter of 2016.

 

Full Article

 

The 18,000-acre Alliance Texas development is home to the world's first 100% cargo airport.

 

One of Alliance's latest developments, Facebook's $1B data center, is currently under construction.

[Sic'EmBears]

$120 million expansion planned for Grapevine’s Gaylord Texan

Karen Robinson-Jacobs

January 20, 2016

 

Nashville-based Ryman Hospitality Properties Inc., which operates as a lodging real estate investment trust, said the project at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine will add 300 guest rooms to the resort’s current 1,511 room count. 

 

That would put it just below the 1,840 room count at The Sheraton Dallas Hotel downtown, the state's largest hotel in terms of guest rooms.

The current project will add 86,000 square feet of carpeted meeting space, bringing the total meeting space to about 490,000 square feet.

Construction is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year and be completed during the second quarter of 2018. The $120 million figure includes a $5 million expansion of the property’s resort pool complex, which is expected to be complete for the 2016 summer season.

 

Full Article

[Sic'EmBears]

Lakeside mixed-use project coming in Denton County town of Little Elm

Steve Brown

January 21, 2016

 

 

The 7.4-acre project is at the southeast corner of Eldorado Parkway and Main Street, across from Hydrous Wake Park.

 

The projecy – built in partnership with NE Development – will have 6,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and 203,090 square feet of apartment homes in 4-story buildings. 

The mixed-use development will have 242 apartments and will take 16 to 18 months to build.

 

Humphreys & Partners Architects designed the development.

 

Full Article

[Sic'EmBears]

Stream Data Centers to develop new Legacy-area data center in Plano

Candace Carlisle

January 21, 2016

 

Dallas-based data center provider Stream Data Centers has snapped up 16 acres of land to develop a new data center development within Legacy Business Park in Plano.

 

The developer plans to build a 210,000-square-foot data center that will have the ability to withstand sustained 185-mph winds. Stream is seeking LEED Silver certification for the project.

Dallas-Fort Worth is the No. 2 data center market in the country based on the megawatt absorption in 2015, according to JLL's latest Data Center Perspective.

 

JLL'S Bo Bond told me he expects to see a lot of data center development this year.

Stream Data Centers plans to begin construction on the site in the second quarter of 2016, with occupancy slated for early 2017.

 

Full Article

[Sic'EmBears]

State Farm Insurance’s huge Richardson campus is up for grabs

Steve Brown 

January 21, 2016

 

State Farm’s Richardson complex could fetch more than $700 million making it one of the largest such real estate transactions ever in Texas.

State Farm Insurance officials say they plan to sell the company’s 4-building regional office campus in Richardson.

 

The 2 million square foot high-rise project on Bush Turnpike is just now nearing completion and is planned to house almost 8,000 workers.

“In 2016 we plan to add 1,000 employees at State Farm at Cityline,” Pilcic said in an email.

State Farm will continue to occupy them on a long-term lease.

 

Full Article

 

Edited January 22, 2016 by Sic'EmBears

[Sic'EmBears]

Mercedes-Benz to develop new regional distribution facility in Grapevine

Candace Carlisle

January 22, 2016

 

The Learning & Performance Center is relocating from Houston to Grapevine and will accommodate the ongoing training of Mercedes-Benz dealership technicians from throughout the southwestern United States.

The two facilities are slated to sit on more than 31 acres along Lakeside Parkway at Enterprise Road in Grapevine.

The parts distribution center — which is one of six of its kind in the country — will total about 254,000 square feet of space and will parcel out parts throughout the southwest United States.

 

Once staffed, the 59,000-square-foot training facility will employ 50 full-time employees and will be able to train 150 to 200 technicians per week.

Mercedes-Benz is expected to take occupancy of the two buildings in January 2017.

 

Full Article

[Sic'EmBears]

New Frisco mixed-use project across from Toyota Stadium is on the drawing boards

Steve Brown

January 27, 2016 

 

The 22-acre development on Main Street east of the Dallas North Tollway will be next door to the Toyota Stadium.

 

Property owner and developer Paul Cheng has filed plans for a complex of one to 4-story buildings on the north side of Main

 

The project is designed  to include two office buildings, five retail and restaurant buildings and 597 apartments. There’s also a 6-story garage and retail building.

 

Full Article

 

Perhaps this project will be similar to its initial plan by Corgan.

 

[Houston19514]

Concerning why Chase is building two very substantial projects simultaneously in Downtown Dallas and its suburb of Plano is because Chase has around 12,000 employees in Dallas and its immediate suburbs. 6,000 of those, primarily from offices scattered in various suburban locations, are planned to be relocated to the new one million square foot Chase campus to be built in Plano.

The Chase project for Downtown Dallas is not an office project but instead mixed use with hotel, apartments, retail, restaurant, and parking.

Chase will continue to occupy its space in the JPMorgan Chase Tower in Downtown Dallas and The Crescent. Chase's Downtown Dallas presence is not a part of the Plano move or will only be negligibly affected. .

More precisely, the "Chase" project downtown is just an investment by JP Morgan Assert Management,, a different part of the JP Morgan Chase empire. It has nothing at all to do with the JPMorgan Chase employee base downtown.

[Sic'EmBears]

Large datacenter planned for Richardson one of several in the works for North Texas

Steve Brown

February 1, 2016

 

 

 

The more than 470,000-square-foot 3-story datacenter would be built on more than 20 acres at the northwest corner of Security Row and International Parkway.

North Texas was the second fastest growing datacenter market in the country in 2015, behind only suburban Washington, D.C., according to a new report by commercial property firm JLL.

 

“We are continuing to have record absorption here,” said JLL’s Bo Bond. “Those numbers do not include corporate build-to-suit projects like Facebook and State Farm.”

Bond said the next generation of projects will be bigger and will include more ground-up construction, rather than converting old commercial buildings.

 

Full Article

[Sic'EmBears]

Farmers market will be centerpiece of new Frisco development

Steve Brown

February 1, 2016

 

 

Called Frisco Fresh Market, the Main Street project will also include office buildings, apartments and a hotel on 32 acres just east of the Dallas North Tollway.

 

“Our project is a specialty lifestyle retail project with primary focus on fresh food and farm fresh produce as well as a variety of small vendors selling artisan products,” said developer Paul Cheng who heads USA Infrastructure Investments. “It will be about 70,000 square feet of indoor facilities and 10,000 square feet of outdoor facilities.

The project is planned to include two office buildings, five retail and restaurant buildings and 597 apartments. The development will be next door to the Toyota Stadium.

Cheng said work will start on the development this fall.

 

Full Article

[Sic'EmBears]

Frisco's The Gate development costs to exceed $1B.

Here's the article, along with new renderings.

[Sic'EmBears]

J.P. Morgan Chase's new $300M regional headquarters in Plano aquires land for future expansion.

Read about it here.

[Sic'EmBears]

Investors from China, Germany, Korea, Peru and UAE are interested in investing in Frisco's $5.4B mile.

Read about it here.

[Sic'EmBears]

Verizon's $1.5B+ mixed-use development to go before Irving city council in March.

Plans call for 3.5M square feet of office, 85K square feet of retail, a 150-room hotel and community green. The development is to be built adjacent to one of DART's Orange Line stations.

Read about it here.

[Sic'EmBears]

Arlington Commons, a 353-unit apartment complex, begins construction tomorrow.

The project's master plan includes a total of 1,300+ units.

Here's the article.

[Sic'EmBears]

Texas Health to build $37M drug and alcohol North Texas treatment facility

Bill Hethcock

February 9, 2016

Texas Health Resources plans to construct a $37 million, 80-bed treatment center for drug and alcohol addiction in Mansfield — the first facility of its type for the health system.

Health system leaders will break ground at 9 a.m. Wednesday on Texas Health Residential Treatment Center at 240 North Miller Road in Mansfield.

The facility is slated to open in May 2017.

The 100,000-square-foot center will have four residence halls, divided by age groups: adolescents from 12-17 years old; young adults from 18-25; women; and general population of 25 and older.

Beck will complete the architecture and the construction for the project.

Full Article

[Sic'EmBears]

Granite Properties' 'The Boardwalk' restaurant row gets underway in West Plano

Candace Carlisle

February 9, 2016

On the heels of landing Fannie Mae's regional consolidation at Granite Park, Granite Properties has started construction on its boardwalk-inspired restaurant row at the southeast corner of the Sam Rayburn Tollway and the Dallas North Tollway in West Plano.

The project, called The Boardwalk, is expected to bring about 29,000 square feet of restaurant space in a multi-building complex attached with patios and a boardwalk around the lake feature at Granite Park.

Last year, Granite Properties landed celebrity chef Kent Rathbun's new concept Hickory Kitchen and a Japanese and Asian-infused concept Blue Fish.

Fuller said it would be a variety of restaurants that would enhance the eateries at the park. Each restaurant will have 3,000 square feet to 7,000 square feet of retail space upon completion.

At full build-out, Granite Park is expected to have a daytime population of 10,000 people. Construction on The Boardwalk is slated for completion in October.

Full Article

[Sic'EmBears]

San Francisco-based McKesson Corp., the nation's oldest and largest pharmaceutical company, plans to move offices to Las Colinas.

Read about it here.

[Sic'EmBears]

Irving industrial park kicks off with two buildings

Steve Brown

February 10, 2016

A Pennsylvania-based real estate company is building a 44-acre industrial park in Irving.

Liberty Property Trust plans to develop three warehouses with 720,000 square feet in its new Liberty Park GSW North project at 951 Valley View Lane.

The first two buildings with 537,300 square feet will be finished at midyear.

The company is also developing a 41-acre warehouse project at 2250 E. Bardin Road near Interstate 20 in Arlington.

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Five years after Super Bowl XLV in Arlington, there’s no sign of a return engagement

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2016/02/super-bowl-xlv-a-mixed-legacy-for-dallas-area-five-years-later.html/

Super Bowl XLV was a multi-year effort that raised millions for charity and created lasting programs. It also generated plenty of embarrassments when it left some fans without seats, treacherous snow fell from the stadium injuring workers and miserable weather shut down outdoor activities for much of the week. And it’ll be at least a decade before there’s any chance of the NFL returning its biggest game to the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium.

 

The worst Super Bowl ever.  Nasty stadium they can open the roof and based in Arlington.  HTown will be ready next year!

[nativehoustonion]

J.C. Penney laying off 9% of staff at headquarters.

The retailer is cutting hundreds of jobs at headquarters as it looks to improve its finances.

J.C. Penney is laying off 300 people at its Plano, Texas headquarters, making it the latest store chain to shed jobs in a tough environment for retailers.

http://fortune.com/2015/10/23/jc-penney-layoffs/

 

Not good there is a rickle effect.  Oil industry will have a domino effect.  JC Penny has been in a lot of trouble.  Dallas thinks the oil down fall will not hurt them.  IT WILL.!