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I dont know but I kinda like the logo. Tacky maybe to some though. By the way I went to my gf's high school prom in that sky lobby. It was awesome!

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.

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

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.”

In the opinion of this Dallasite... The Williams Tower is the most beautiful tower in Houston.

Gratzi Bachanon.....you rule!

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/

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Awesome!

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!

In the name of Sir Bill Hicks.. I will see if I can muster up something manana.

but Houston has a little more height. Of it course. Houston has more and bigger throughout the city. Its the true Texas skyscraper city. It ranks higher on the Raime ratings at number #4 but Dallas is nipping at Los Angeles' heels at #6 which Im proud of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Raime/Skyline_rankings Of course these change a lot. There's developments all over the country. Im just glad Texas has such great cities. Though Dallas is the third most populous*cough*..... I consider Houston and Dallas to be the New York and Chicago of Texas.

Thank you MetroWest! I know its difficult with all of our success here. Hey dont feel bad about the Dairy Queen. They have some great food! I heard they updating the Houston location with a new unisex bathroom for transgender people. That way you wont have to be confused anymore. Hurray! Alright Houston

I believe its pronounced like "Blue Seal". Spelt Bleu Ciel. :] I didnt know it looked like the bldg you mentioned. Gonna have to check that out. I know the Dallas Skyhouse looks just like the Houston Skyhouse or whatever its name is. Haha. Thanksgiving Tower in Dallas looks almost exactly like Minneapolis' tallest bldg. Copycat architecture everywhere in multiple cities.

Excellent list Houston19514! Yes the cranes are part of the skyline right now. haha. You can see them from my area in Northeast Dallas. Some of those I didnt even know about. We should be able to add the 33 story Bleu Ciel soon. Not sure when they are breaking ground. Should be soon :} Thanx!

This is my hometown so of course I want it to be the best it can be. Our skyline will never come close to Chicago's at least not in my lifetime unless there is some freakish boom period lol. However there IS a TON of land in South Dallas that we are not using. And Dallas is bigger than Chicago land-wise(Houston is bigger!) I do dream of our skyline streching into parts of that (without spoiling our huge urban forest down there). Also West Dallas may see growth next. We already are a great city and are THE trading post of the region.. that's how we got started in the first place. We have no water port but still did well. Just like Atlanta. Same thing with them. We are still growing and its actually caused some Dallasites to move OUT of Dallas because its becoming too much. My half-sister is one of them. She moved to Tyler for a slower pace. We (and Houston) have the craziest drivers but take a careful look at their license plates they're usually "foreign" Haha. But I've learned a city is more than a bunch of skyscrapers. Its more complicated than that. But you never know.....all I can say is be careful what you wish for....you might just get it.

Here's another one: Sept 2, 2014 Quote:J.P. Morgan Asset Management bought the empty block, which is across the street from its Trammell Crow Center skyscraper. The New York based investment firm plans to use the block at Ross and Olive Street to construct a mixed-use project that includes hundreds of parking spaces for the office tower, real estate brokers say. Quote: Real estate brokers say that along with a parking garage to serve Trammell Crow Center, the real estate firm is considering retail space, apartments or even a hotel to include in the project. http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2014/09/j-p-morgan-buys-downtown-dallas-block.html/

Agreed. There are many towers going up in uptown as well as our Cityplace area. Most of these are in the 20 to 25 something story range. Which is kinda a bummer but we are building density leading into downtown which looks great. (Think Philadelphia style but with modern buildings). All beautiful bldgs just shorter. The tallest approved thing we have going up is the Bleu Ciel in uptown at 33 stories. Of course that's just approved. There are many others proposed of course. The one Im excited about is of the potential monster tower Ross Perot Jr is trying to build.

Not sure if that devmap has been updated but that article is Sept 2014.

Interesting new article: http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-ceo/2014/september/why-investors-are-flocking-to-downtown-dallas Huge corporate campuses are being built in the northern suburbs, and Uptown office buildings are securing record-breaking rental rates. But the biggest commercial real estate story in Dallas may be the revitalization of the city’s urban core, where a staggering number of redevelopment projects are setting the stage for a major transformation. Activity is focused on the city’s center, the area between Pacific Avenue and Main, Commerce, and Elm streets. Sales volume in the core is “off the charts,” says Jon Altschuler, partner at Altschuler and Co. Even more noticeable, he says, are the capital improvements new property owners are making. “When I step out of Thanksgiving Tower and head in either direction, it feels like I should be wearing a hard hat,” he says. “There is so much construction activity. Welding, banging, building—you can tell it’s going to be a different streetscape in 18 months.