TexasStar

Construction Updates - 09/28/2015

Skyhouse Victory Park and The Ascent looming over the American Airlines Center - Home of the Dallas Mavericks (NBA) and Dallas Stars (NHL)

Cineopolis takes shape in the distance.

Katy Station rises just beyond the new Camden Apartments in Victory Park

No problem. I had a wonderful visit!

Spent the holiday weekend in the quintessential skyscraper city...HOUSTON!

From our base of operations at the soaring Hyatt we had a wonderful time

exploring the wide streets and impressive architecture of this giant metropolis.

a bit more "white flight" (can I say that) and Dallas will be the next Detroit

Dallas is quickly becoming one of the worst run cities in America

Perhaps, but John Wiley Price has nothing to do with Dallas city government.

He is a County Commissioner.

BATON ROUGE

The Capitol Building built during the Great Depression in 1930-32 stands 34 stories and 450 feet tall. Still the tallest state capitol in the U.S.

Huey P. Long - The Kingfish

The powerful Governor and U.S. Senator who ruled Louisiana with an iron fist is buried beneath his statue.

49 steps form the Grand Staircase toward the entrance to the Capitol of Louisiana. Each step has the name of a state and the year of its admission into the Union - with Alaska and Hawaii sharing stair number 49.

Capitol Grounds

View from the top of the Capitol steps

Looking South from the Observation Deck

The Port of Baton Rouge and the Mighty Mississippi River

Looking North

The giant Exxon refinery at Baton Rouge - one of the world's largest.

I already know about the Cuban Missile Crisis and stuff. We just didn't go into depth on the JFK assassination. That's why I didn't know what the grassy knoll was, but I did have an idea.

And now that I think about it, we went into Roe v. Wade and stopped at the Gulf War. After TAKS, we basically did nothing.

The "grassy knoll" is where some conspiracy buffs contend that the shots that were fatal to JFK were actually fired from - and not the Texas School Book Depository.

I google mapped this location which is 1700 Pacific, per the original link. It sent me downtown. Where is "Uptown" in relation to downtown?

Directly north, separated by the Woodall-Rogers freeway.

Victory/Downtown/Uptown Skyline at dusk

Downtown walking tour - December 2, 2007:

Full sized versions available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbandallas/

Any new news on Victory. I was wondering how it was coming along since this thread has been sleeping for a while.

Still developing as planned.

The House By Starcke

One Victory Park

The Cirque

LFT - Lifestyle Fashion Terminal

Yeah I would. Arlington is a suburb. It is like those big suburbs around Phoenix (Glendale, Mesa, Scottsdale, etc.). Mesa I think is over 400,000 and expected to be at about 620,000 after 2020. Mesa is still a suburb. All it is, is cookie-cutter houses block after block. Sprinkle in some strip centers, Walmarts, and maybe some malls, and that is Mesa. Arlington is like that, too, but the advantage that Arlington has on Mesa is the stadiums and Six Flags. Glendale is probably a better comparison, but both are still suburbs (Glendale is over 200,000).

Agreed. What makes it a suburb is that most of the people who live there have to travel elsewhere in the metro to find employement.

The city should encouarge the stations that are licensed to Fort Worth to start saying it like they're proud of it, not like it's something to be ashamed of and should bury.

TV stations licensed to Fort Worth:

• KXAS
  
• KTVT
  
• KTXA
  
• KUVN
  
• KVFW
  
• KFWD
  

Radio stations licensed to Fort Worth:

• KTCU
  
• KLNO
  
• KSCS
  
• KEGL
  
• KPLX
  
• KDGE
  
• KMVK
  
• WBAP
  
• KFJZ
  
• KHVN
  
• KFLC
  

When those stations' licenses come up for renewal the mayor or chamber of commerce or someone official should complain to the FCC. Those stations will change their slogans in a heartbeat.

Watching TV on a daily basis in D-FW, it's impossible to tell exactly where any station is licensed. Well, except for WFAA - " broadcasting in HIGH DEFINITION from Victory Park".

(And, yes, they are wearing out that tag line.)

Other than that there's no way to tell where any broadcast is originating since they routinely show images of both city skylines and try, effectively I might add, to balance the news coverage to cover all corners of the MetroPlex.

Houston edges out Dallas in GDP race

08:21 AM CDT on Thursday, September 27, 2007

By BRENDAN M. CASE / The Dallas Morning News

Bad news in the battle between Dallas and that other large town to the southeast: Houston edged out Dallas in a new ranking of the largest U.S. metropolitan economies.

The Houston area's gross domestic product came in at $316.3 billion in 2005, a hair ahead of Dallas-Fort Worth's $315.5 billion.

That's one of the conclusions in a new study by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, a unit of the U.S. Commerce Department. The report attempts to measure total output by metropolitan area through 2005.

The Texas titans rank as fifth- and sixth-largest metro economies in the nation, following New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and the Washington area.

According to the study, the top 10 metropolitan areas accounted for 34 percent of the total U.S. gross domestic product of nearly $12.4 trillion in 2005.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis called the study a prototype that was open to tweaking. Its analysis relied heavily on industry earnings data from the state and county levels.

In Texas at least, the federal estimates track calculations by Waco economist Ray Perryman. He estimates total output in the Dallas-Fort Worth area at about $315.4 billion in 2005. The Houston area stood at $316.1 billion.

METRO ECONOMIES

Gross domestic product in billions of dollars by metro area for 2005:

------------------------------------

New York $1,056.4

Los Angeles $632.4

Chicago $461.4

Washington, D.C. $347.6

Houston $316.3

Dallas-Fort Worth $315.5

Philadelphia $295.2

San Francisco $268.3

Boston $261.1

Atlanta $242.4

------------------------------------

SOURCE: U.S. Commerce Department

How great is it that Texas has two powerhouse economies? NYC remains in a class by itself.

But, as for the rest, the Texas giants are definitely playing with the big boys.

MUSEUM TOWER

DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT

The Dallas Morning News

But Dallas has no glory days sports-wise as it doesn't have an NFL or MLB team. Get one. Get a Superbowl. Win a Superbowl. Until then, quit pretending you have a team just beacuse Arlington and Irving slapped Dallas's name on their teams. Put them in your city. Reap the tax rewards. Stop pretending you have NFL and MLB status when you don't even have the teams.

And on that brain dead note, I am officially out for good.

But you bayou goobers need to ask yourselves just one little question.

If you have a Dallas/Fort Worth/Metroplex sub-forum and you don't want anyone posting any news about the region, then just what the hell is it for exactly?

Never mind, don't bother answering. The person asking no longer gives a crap.

Exactly. It's so much easier to have your NFL, and MLB teams in the city they are named after. This way you don't have to twist yourself into a pretzel by trying to justify slapping your city's name on a team that doesn't play in your city and doesn't reap the rewards. It's just so....Dallas. Fake and pretentious with low standards...consistently failing to achieve them.

You know what's "just so .. Houston"? Pathetic, jealous, whining about what Dallas has.

Just continue with your wallowing in that inferiority complex. It's darn entertaining to watch.

Every city gets the Super Bowl after they build a new stadium. Houston had it in 2004. It's called bribery/blackmail.

Not entirely true. When exactly was that Superbowl in Charlotte?

So any thing new going up in Victory lately?

Putting the "Park" in Victory Park

The Cirque

The House

House of Blues

I recognize that the Victory development is not complete. I'm just curious, what are the "key elements" that are not yet in place, and when do you imagine they will be in place so that Victory will "be jumping"?

Victory Tower/Mandarin Oriental Hotel (43 stories)

275,000 sq ft office space, 120 Hotel Rooms, 90 condos, 75,000 sq ft retail

The Cirque Apartments (28 stories)

252 apartments, 75,000 sq ft retail

The House Condominiums (28 stories)

150 condos, 30,000 sq ft retail

One Victory Park (20 stories)

450,000 sq ft office, 20,000 sq ft retail

Two Victory Park (20 stories)

450,000 sq ft office, 20,000 sq ft retail

Hopefully, that will add some "jump" to it.

Oh please, just close this thread now before it gets ugly!!!

Or, as president bush calls it, "Liberty Tower".

Holy crap, I'm as out of touch as the President.

The only reason I think LA's skyline is recognizable all over the world is because of that white cylinder shaped building (the city's tallest). That building, (and the rest of L.A's skyline of course) has appeared in countless movies and t.v. shows over the years. Not to mention that the big white building in LA (whatever the hell it's called) was one of the buildings that the aliens in "Independence Day" chose to zap first, along with the Empire State Bld. I remember thinking when I saw that movie that this LA building was being put on the same level as the ESB, (which it isn't of course).

L.A's skyline is one of the lamest in the nation. It's drab and flat. BUT it's only 8 miles from the entertainment capital of the world, so it gets a lot of undeserved attention.

Well, I do know that building in LA is called the Library Tower.

Of course, that certainly doesn't put on the same level with the ESB.

It's like you said, it's in a ton of movies.

At the same time, if I were shown a picture of Houston's tallest, I'm not sure I'd be able to identify it. I might, but I might not.

Kinda embarrassing. A self-professed skyscraper geek like myself should have no trouble identifying the tallest building in Texas.

But, I'm not sure I could.

Sad.

Probably only red,white, and blue on special occasions...