Sic'EmBears Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 3 hours ago, JasnoDTX said: This is gonna be beautiful! Hopefully developers will follow through with a quality product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Indiana developer plans fourth North Texas project in Allen Steve Brown April 25, 2016 Quote An Indiana-based office developer that’s expanding its operations in Texas has purchased land in Allen for a new project. Quote The company said Monday that it purchased 3.3 acres on Watters Road near North Central Expressway in Allen for its latest project. The 2-story, 35,070-square-foot building will have 145 office suites, co-working areas, conference rooms, casual meeting areas, a lobby and reception area and a café. Construction is scheduled to begin in July. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 2,000-home community being built on site of former Folsom family horse farm in Collin County Steve Brown April 25, 2016 Quote The 682-acre Mustang Ranch community under construction northeast of Prosper is on the site of former Dallas mayor Robert Folsom’s thoroughbred horse farm. Developers are turning the one-time family farm into a residential community called Mustang Lakes with nine lakes, over 60 acres of open space and 10 miles of trails. “We hope to deliver the first home lots to builders in June if it will quit raining,” said Matt Alexander, vice president of development with Cambridge Cos. Quote As part of the new community, the Folsom family’s ranch house on the property will be repurposed as a community center. Quote “The decision was made to keep the house for the history value and because of all the trees surrounding it. “We are expanding it to about 12,000 square feet overlooking a 5 to 6 acre lake. Quote He said the developers have preserved large trees the Folsoms planted on the farm. “We’ve moved 22 live oak trees between 17 and 22 inches in diameter,” Alexander said. Quote “We think the prices will be starting in the $300,000s,” Alexander said. “We have some one-acre lots we think will be for homes around a million dollars.” Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 New Legacy West condo tower in Plano is 80 percent sold Steve Brown April 25, 2016 Quote The building is planned to have about 90 luxury residential units starting at more than $700,000 for the smallest unit. The first residential tower in Plano, the Legacy West condo project is right next door to Liberty Mutual Insurance’s new high-rise complex and across the street from the Legacy West urban village. “Directly across the street, our residents will have the finest dining, shopping, and entertainment options,” project developer Jim Duggan said in a statement. Quote Construction is set to begin this summer. A marketing center for the project opens next month. Quote Windrose Tower is one of two residential high-rises planned in the $3.2 billion Legacy West project. Dallas-based developer Palladium USA International is building a 30-story, 312-apartment tower in the same area, just south of S.H. 121. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Developer starting 4-building industrial project north of D/FW Airport Steve Brown April 27, 2016 Quote With Dallas-Fort Worth in the lead as the top industrial building market in the country, developers are ramping up efforts to add more space. Illinois-based ML Realty Partners LLC plans to build four warehouses in its Park West Crossing business park, which is north of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Quote The next phase of development will add buildings ranging in size from more than 60,000 to more than 90,000 square feet. “We hope to deliver all four buildings by the end of the year,” Smith said. “We should be breaking ground next week.” Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Update: Granite Place at Southlake Town Square Set to open late 2016. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Luxury hotel tower on the way for Craig Hall’s Frisco office park Steve Brown April 29, 2016 Quote The developer just got approval from Frisco’s planning and zoning commission to build a high-rise hotel at the entrance to Hall Office Park at the tollway and Gaylord Parkway. It’s south of where the huge Dallas Cowboys complex is being built. The 10-story, 170-room hotel will be one of Hilton’s high-end Curio hotels, according to details provided to Frisco city planners. Quote The Hall Office Park Curio hotel will be more than 122,000 square feet and planned for one of the last large vacant tracts in the business campus. Quote The 20-year-old business campus on the Dallas North Tollway is Frisco’s largest office district with more than 2 million square feet. Hall Office Park’s new hotel will be at the northeast corner of the tollway and Gaylord Parkway. (City of Frisco) Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Wade Park update: https://vimeo.com/161041695 The Star update: Construction at the Star in Frisco includes the new Dallas Cowboys world headquarters (foreground) and The Ford Center at The Star indoor stadium. (Photos by G.J. McCarthy/Staff Photographer) This building will serve as the Cowboys’ new headquarters. (G.J. McCarthy/Staff Photographer) The Star at Frisco’s outdoor practice fields (right) sit in a corner formed by the Cowboys headquarters building and The Ford Center indoor stadium. The front of The Ford Center at The Star, the development’s indoor stadium, will feature a huge video screen and a 50-yard turf area where kids can play. To the right of the plaza is the Omni Frisco Hotel. On the left is the building that will house the Cowboys Fit, the Dallas Cheerleaders headquarters and an apparel store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Big movie theater project moving ahead at Richardson’s CityLine project Steve Brown May 2, 2016 Quote Developers of Richardson’s $1.5 billion CityLine project are pushing ahead with plans to add a multiscreen cinema complex. Quote The planned LOOK Cinema will be next door to State Farm Insurance’s fourth, 17-story office tower, which is winding up construction. Along with building the cinema, KDC is asking Richardson city planners for approval to build temporary surface parking that would serve the new theater. Quote The CityLine theater and parking would be built just south of the Bush Turnpike in what is called CityLine East. KDC also plans 500 apartments and more than 20,000 square feet of retail space at CityLine East. The CityLine Market shopping center in that area is already fully leased. And plans have been approved for a 32-home community of single-family houses next door to the retail center. The cinema complex and temporary parking lots would occupy three tracts just south of the Bush Turnpike. (City of Richardson) Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Scheels sporting goods superstore joining Nebraska Furniture Mart in Texas Maria Halkias May 4, 2016 Quote Scheels, a Fargo, N.D.-based chain of 27 sporting goods superstores in 12 states, is coming to Texas. The store will be 300,000 square-feet, or about 12 times the size of a traditional sporting goods big box stores such as Dick’s and Academy. Quote The store won’t open until 2020, but the announcement is a big catch for the $1.5 billion Grandscape development on Highway 121 in The Colony with so many competing projects in the works nearby including the Dallas Cowboys Star project in Frisco and Legacy West under construction around the site of the new Toyota headquarters in Plano. Quote CEO Steve M. Scheel said the company has been scoping out Texas for 10 years. The store will be its biggest Scheels, he said. Construction will begin in 2018. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, which owns Nebraska Furniture Mart and Grandscape, said he’s “very excited to have Scheels” in the project. Quote “The Scheels experience will bring millions of visitors to Grandscape furthering our vision of making this development one of the best in the United States.” Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 California-based Jamba Juice chain relocating its HQ to Frisco Steve Brown May 4, 2016 Quote Another California company is moving to North Texas. Retailer Jamba Inc. is moving its headquarters from the San Francisco Bay area to Frisco’s Hall Office Park. The parent company of Jamba Juice stores has leased 25,000 square feet of office space in the project at the Dallas North Tollway and Gaylord Parkway Quote About 100 people will work in the company’s new Frisco office. Jamba’s new facility at 3001 Dallas Parkway will include 19,000 square feet of office and meeting space and a 6,000-square-foot test kitchen and storefront. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 $1 billion Frisco Station development will start with office project Steve Brown May 5, 2016 Quote The office development will be the first phase of the Frisco Station project near the northwest corner of the Dallas North Tollway and Warren Parkway. Plans call for the 242-acre Frisco Station to wrap around the Dallas Cowboy’s new headquarters and training center. Quote Meyer said the Cowboys’ Star complex will focus a lot of attention on Warren Park. “With the access to the tollway, it was the best site for the building,” he said. “We have great early interest in the project – we wish we had it done a while ago.” The office development will be the first component of Frisco Station to start construction since the project was announced in late 2014. “Frisco Station is unlike any other development in this region because it is specifically designed to attract and nurture the nation’s top innovative brands and emerging talent,” Mike Berry, president of Hillwood Properties, said in a statement. “Frisco Station will be a highly desired destination where the top thinkers and producers want to work, and where businesses come to thrive.” Along with more than 2 million square feet of office buildings, plans call for Frisco Station to contain more than 2,000 apartments and homes, shops, restaurants and medical buildings. VanTrust plans to begin construction on the first office building in September and open the project about a year later. Quote The entire Frisco Station project will eventually house almost 15,000 workers in office and commercial projects. The Frisco Station building will open in the second half of 2017. (HKS) Full Article Siteplan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sic'EmBears Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Job growth fueling development of 550 luxury apartments at Craig Ranch in McKinney Candace Carlisle May 9, 2016 Quote Dallas-based development group SWBC Real Estate LLC plans to get underway on a $85 million development in Craig Ranch in McKinney, which will bring 550 apartments homes to this part of the region. Quote The firm recently acquired 9.3 acres of land within Craig Ranch, a 2,200-acre master-planned community for the new development, which is being dubbed Central Park at Craig Ranch. Gwin said the development group wanted to acquire land in the 121 corridor because of the nearly 50,000 jobs being created or moved to this corridor in the next 18 months. Quote The initial phase of the two-phase apartment project — about 270 apartments — is expected to get underway by the end of the year. Construction is slated to be complete in the second quarter of 2018. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 Developer gets funding to start 4,500-home community in Celina Steve Brown May 10, 2016 Quote Tomlin Investments is building the 1,408-acre Green Meadows project on Legacy Drive one mile west of the planned Dallas North Tollway extension. The first phase of the project will include sites for 365 homes and a community center. Quote Green Meadows is being built 10 miles north of Frisco’s State Highway 121 corridor on the west side of Celina. “We are about 90 days away from starting,” he said. “We are building about a $4.5 million amenity center. Tomlin said the first home lots will be ready in Green Meadows in early 2018. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Another mixed-use development kicking off on Frisco’s $5 billion mile Steve Brown May 12, 2016 Quote Goviea Commercial Real Estate is building the more than 25-acre development between Stonebrook Parkway and the Dallas North Tollway. Four office buildings, a hotel and a handful of restaurant and retail buildings are planned in Stonebrook Park. The development will be just north of the $1.6 billion Wade Park project. “We are breaking ground in about a week,” said Sayres Heady with Heady Investments, which is leasing the project. “The project has taken a long time to get going, and we are putting the finishing touches on it. Quote The three-story, 90,000-square-foot office building is at the south end of the development site. Three more office projects that will add up to about 480,000 square feet are planned. A row of freestanding retail and restaurant buildings will line the tollway service road on the west side. Quote “We are under contract for two different hotels,” Heady said. “We are talking to a couple of restaurants that would cater to the office tenants. Quote Construction on the first office building in Stonebrook Park should be finished next year. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Irving's Pioneer project update: Pioneer Natural Resources gets $6 million in economic incentives for new Irving headquarters campus Steve Brown May 12, 2016 Quote Irving’s city council voted Thursday night to provide almost $6 million in economic incentives for a new office headquarters for Pioneer Natural Resources. Quote Pioneer Natural Resources – an energy firm already based in Irving – would move almost 1,100 people to the planned 750,000 square-foot office development on Hidden Ridge Drive. Quote “It’s an opportunity to retain a major employer with a very highly paid workforce,” Scott Connell, director of Irving’s Economic Development department, told the council. “A critical issue for us is it secures a major anchor for the Hidden Ridge development.” Quote Located on 110 acres adjacent to communication firm Verizon’s long-time Irving regional office, the Hidden Ridge development will be constructed adjacent to a new DART commuter rail station. The ambitious mixed-use project is planned to include more than 2 million square feet of office space, apartments, retail, restaurants and a hotel. Pioneer Natural Resources new headquarters would be in the blue buildings just west of the planned Hidden Ridge town center and DART rail station. (Gensler) Quote Verizon has told Irving that the development could eventually be worth more than $1 billion and house up to 10,000 workers. Pioneer’s planned office would sit on 38 acres in the center of the Hidden Ridge development, adjacent to residential and retail center and the new transit station. “We are very excited about retaining a major employer in our community,” Connell said. “The company is still considering opportunities in other Metroplex cities. Quote To land the Pioneer project, Irving agreed to give the company more than more than $5 million in property tax abatements over a 10-year period. The city council also voted to give Pioneer cash economic grants of more than $700,000 to be paid in installments over a period of several years. To qualify for the initial economic incentives Pioneer will have to have its new Hidden Ridge offices open by 2020 and 1,090 people working there. The company has said it expects to grow its workforce by more than 300 people after the project is finished. Quote Irving’s agreement also requires Hidden Ridge to build a large portion of its apartments in a high-rise building of at least seven floors. Quote Construction on the Hidden Ridge project could begin as soon as late this year. Architect Gensler has been working on master plans for the transit-oriented development. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Nevada developer buys 60 acres for a far southern Dallas industrial park Steve Brown May 16, 2016 Quote Dermody Properties said Monday it bought the 60.2-acre site at Bonnie View and Telephone roads near Interstate 20. The developer will build a 1.1-million-square-foot industrial park called LogistiCenter at Dallas on the land. The first phase will be a 622,440-square-foot distribution center that will open in early 2017. Quote “We will continue to seek out opportunities to expand the Dermody Properties portfolio in the region through acquisitions of existing buildings and new development.” Dermody Properties plans to start construction on LogistiCenter at Dallas this summer. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 I heard a year or so ago that Park Place's Land Rover dealership would sit just east of the Mercedes-Benz dealership, across Texan Trail. Nonetheless, I'm excited this was finally announced. Land Rover, Land Rover, let Park Place come over: Jaguar store exiting Plano to merge Terry Box May 16, 2016 Quote Park Place Dealerships, already one of the largest luxury-car groups in the U.S., will move its Jaguar dealership from Plano and combine it with Land Rover at a new store in Grapevine. Construction is scheduled to begin immediately on the facility, which will be located on the south side of State Highway 114 near Texan Trail Parkway. The two luxury brands – both owned by Tata Motors, the largest auto manufacturer in India – will occupy a two-story dealership with 30 service bays and a showroom that can accommodate up to 12 Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles. It is expected to open next spring. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Tyler bank funds Frisco Station construction on $5 billion mile Steve Brown May 17, 2016 Quote Southside Bank is financing infrastructure construction at the 242-acre Frisco Station development on the Dallas North Tollway. Quote Southside Bank said Tuesday that it provided loans to pay for constructing roads, water, sewer and other utilities in the project near Warren Parkway and the tollway. The work will start next month. “Frisco Station is a marquee project in one of the fastest growing areas in the region,” Tim Carter, North Texas regional president of Southside Bank, said in a statement. “We’ve had a great relationship with Hillwood over the years and are pleased to be part of such a prominent project that will change Frisco’s landscape.” Quote The overall development is planned to include more than 5 million square feet of office space, 2,400 urban living units, hotel and conference facilities and more than 250,000 square feet of retail and mixed uses. “The financing by Southside Bank is a major step forward in our efforts to turn our vision for Frisco Station into reality,” said Mike Berry, president of Hillwood. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Plano Update: Legacy West - Renaissance Hotel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 New high-tech Toyota division lands at Plano’s Legacy West Urban Village Steve Brown May 18, 2016 Quote A new high-tech company recently set up by car giant Toyota has landed in Plano’s Legacy West project. But the workers won’t be at the company’s new Plano campus. Toyota Connected Inc. has rented a block of office space in the new Legacy West Urban Village mixed-use project under construction at Dallas North Tollway and Legacy Drive. Quote “This office space will be Toyota Connected’s Global Headquarters,” Zack Hicks, the CEO of Toyota Connected, said in a statement. “Since we are a startup, we’ve leased 20,000 square feet for five years to accommodate our first 100 employees. “We are excited about this new live-work-play space and think our new employees will love this creative and engaging new environment,” he said. “It’s close enough to collaborate with Toyota’s new North America Headquarters, but will remain separate to create their own startup culture. We anticipate moving into the new space towards the end of the year.” Quote Toyota Connected, which was announced last month, is an expanded collaboration between the automaker and Microsoft. The company will develop automotive data management and analytics and research. Toyota and Microsoft have been collaborating on connected-car systems for five years. The automaker invested $5.5 million in the new operation. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Ground broken for restaurant park on State Highway 121 in The Colony Steve Brown May 18, 2016 Quote Developers have broken ground in The Colony on a restaurant park that will serve a larger mixed-use development. Jackson-Shaw said Wednesday that its 3-acre Oasis project will have room for four restaurants with outdoor dining. The project is part of the developer’s 100-acre, mixed-use Cascades at The Colony development on the north side of State Highway 121. Quote Along with the hotels, Cascades includes office, retail and residential. Quote The project will be finished later this year. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 American Airlines imploding former HQ building to make way for Fort Worth expansion Candace Carlisle May 17, 2016 Quote "This will be the location of our new headquarters," American Airlines spokesman Matt Miller told the Dallas Business Journal."We're getting rid of the old facility, which has been vacant for a few years. The new building will sit on the same parcel of land." Quote The building implosion — which is slated for early Friday afternoon — is the next step in American Airlines making way for its new $350 million corporate campus that will sit on 300 acres west of Texas 360 next to American Airlines' training and operations center. "We will implode the building, move the debris and start on construction on the new campus later this summer," Miller told me. "This is an important next step." Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Rangers to announce a new retractable roof ballpark in Arlington, possibly by Friday. Lot B is wide enough to fit a retractable roof park in the style of Minute Maid Park and is across from Texas Live. I'd expect a roof design similar to Marlins Park (roof and separate sliding wall) with HKS as architect. The trend lately is modern exteriors (Target Field, Marlins Park) ...do the Rangers go this route? A modern park could fit in well with the a Death Star next door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Developer kicks off second phase of huge Frisco apartment community Steve Brown May 31, 2016 Quote A Dallas developer has broken ground on the second phase of a major Frisco apartment community. StreetLights Residential started building apartments in 2014 in the 152-acre Canals at Grand Park development on the west side of the Dallas North Tollway. StreetLights just began leasing the first 365-unit rental community in the project at 4255 Cotton Gin Road. Now the developer is starting 325 more units in a four-story project called the Maxwell. Quote “The growth in and around the Frisco area is incredible with all of the corporate relocations and the new Dallas Cowboys practice facility,” StreetLights CEO Doug Chesnut said in a statement. Quote The entire Canals at Grand Park project includes apartments, houses, townhomes and senior townhouses built around a series of landscaped parks and waterways. The development is expected to total $500 million in value when it’s complete. Quote Tricon and StreetLights are also partners on the The McKenzie high-rise, which is under construction just east of Highland Park. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 More information on TD Ameritrade's new Southlake regional office campus, a story I broke February 25 on Skyscraper Page. Here's the post. First look at TD Ameritrade’s new Southlake business campus Steve Brown May 31, 2016 Quote The Omaha-based company is building a 355,000-square-foot complex on State Highway 114 next to the Solana business park. The two-building campus is next door to the corporate headquarters of travel services firm Sabre. Quote Designed by architect Good Fulton & Farrell, the two- and three-story buildings are joined by a 2,000-car parking garage. Quote Construction will begin in a few weeks; the campus is set to open late next year. Quote More than 1,000 TD Ameritrade workers now in two buildings in North Fort Worth will be moved to the new Southlake campus when it’s finished. The campus will eventually be able to house as many as 2,000 workers. TD Ameritrade’s project is one of two big corporate campuses on the way along State Highway 114. Charles Schwab is planning a 186,000-square-foot office building on the Perot family’s Circle-T Ranch in Westlake. Westlake planning officials say that developer Hillwood has not yet presented plans for the project that’s part of a larger mixed-use development. Schwab has already rented temporary office space in the area. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 New video for Frisco's $1.6B Wade Park: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Construction kicks off on Plano office tower Steve Brown June 1, 2016 Quote Developer Granite Properties is building the 10-story, 330,000-square-foot building on the south side of State Highway 121. Quote “We started Granite Park VII yesterday,” said Granite Properties’ president Greg Fuller. Quote The office tower designed by BOKA Powell is fully leased to mortgage giant Fannie Mae. The government-backed mortgage company plans to move about 1,000 people into the building when it opens late next year. Granite Park now has 1.5 million square feet of office space housing about 150 companies. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Two new hotel projects planned on S.H. 114 in Southlake Steve Brown June 1, 2016 Quote Two new hotel projects are in the works for Southlake. Developer Hines and Irving-based Summit 11 Investment Group are planning a 121 room boutique hotel Hines’ Carillon development at State Highway 114 and White Chapel Boulevard. Quote The 5-story Indigo hotel will be built in a French provincial style, according to plans filed with Southlake’s city plan commission. Two office buildings are also planned in the Carillon park, which is just west of the Southlake Children’s Medical Center. Another development group has received approval to build a 6-story, 253-room Westin hotel at 1200 E. State Hwy 114. The Westin is planned to have 253 rooms. (City of Southlake) Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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