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What a fake, you guys really tickle me. LOL

Austin may take longer than 2035 to pass Dallas providing the suburbs don't as grow as fast and run out of area to grow. I also think Austin will eventually be mostly land locked but not as bad as Dallas. Austin's largest potential growth area is towards the southeast.

I think downtown Dallas is going to continue to see a reduction in its overall vacancy rate and will continue to have more residential development along with an increase of new companies moving into present vacant space. It is a good time to be an office landlord in Dallas. Downtown Dallas is experiencing the fastest reduction in vacancy rate in the country. Uptown is now down to 10 % vacancy. But the Perot tower doesn't have anything to do with vacancy rates. Perot is out to get his own.

Museum Tower does not produce glare from its south side.

The new apartment tower will not get any glare from the Museum Tower it is situated south of the tower in fact it will benefit by getting shade from MT in the summer and in the winter from Trammell Crow Tower:)

Another tower for the Arts District!

39-stories

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/commercial-real-estate/headlines/20150224-39-story-apartment-tower-to-be-built-on-prime-dallas-arts-district-tract.ece

Perot will tap top talent for downtown Dallas skyscraper.

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2015/02/perot-will-tap-top-talent-for-downtown-dallas-skyscraper-project.html/

Dallas Midtown First Phase?

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2014/11/developer-says-dallas-midtown-will-begin-taking-shape-on-valley-view-center-site-in-2015.html/

Wow! This thread is moving so fast I'm about 20 post behind. I'm not here to argue about Dallas getting the next tallest in Texas but I know that eventually it will whether it is from these proposals or any other in the future.

The real delima for Houston is due to the FAA height restriction of 75 stories. You can build bigger but it would be labeled hazardous. The cost of insuring a building the FAA labels hazardous skyrockets. The JP Morgan Chase building was suppose to be 80 stories but cut 5 off to keep it under the limit. Some of the major factors is the direction and length of the runways at Hobby Airport are situated...which differ from the way they are at Dallas Love Field Airport. So the end result in this matter is that downtown Houston is more restricted by the FAA than Downtown Dallas.. Most of the western half of Downtown Dallas has no limits giving the opportunity for Downtown Dallas to build higher than Houston in the future.

As much as Im a Dallas booster...and want this to happen I'll try not to get too excited until it happens.

Yes, I'm the same way but at least we're getting not one site but two sites downtown for possible supertalls.....if only one gets built thats good enough for me. Go Dallas!!!

Snow Ski Resort for DFW at Grand Prairie

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/grand-prairie-announces-plans-for-a-215-million-indoor-ski-resort-with-a-hard-rock-hotel.html/

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many floors, primarily designed for office, commercial and residential use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper and at which height it may not be considered a high-rise anymore. For buildings above a height of 300 m (984 ft), the term Supertall can be used, skyscrapers reaching beyond 600 m (1,969 ft) are classified as Megatall. After the completion of the 10-story Home Insurance Bldg in Chicago (1895) as the tallest bldg in the city the term skyscraper was used, although a 10-story bldg today may not be considered a skyscraper but a high-rise.

I personally consider a high-rise would be about 30-stories or 400-ft. and a skyscraper to be above 400-ft and upto the Supertall height.

From the interchange of I-20 at Spur 408 on a clear day you can see the Fort Wort skyline some 35 miles away. This area of forest and hills are in southwest Dallas and into the suburb of Cedar Hill. This is the highest area in DFW. That is why the TV towers are in Cedar Hill. Fort Worth has more hills but not the highest.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=16&ved=0CC4QFjAP&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdfwfreeways.com%2Fpages%2Faerial%2F20_spur408.aspx&ei=tJI2VJTeFdanyATC5YIg&usg=AFQjCNFTRUAH2UfS4Vn5CVbXrK2HPxVd2g

You got that right, only here we don't have outlets you call bayous we got real rivers, lakes and creeks with trails.

Oh, so like the trails along all the bayous here in Houston?

Oh, so like the trails along all the bayous here in Houston?

For those that prefer a little more nature environment there is trails below the bridges along the Trinty River that were recently built.

Downtown Farmers Market area booming!

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