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Perhaps the most important problem with these rankings is that every city reports crimes differently. Chief Kunckle gave an example saying that in Dallas if a particular crime directly affects, for example, 4 different individuals, Dallas reports 4 crime incidents. Some other cities in the same situation would report only one crime incident. Therefore, these inter-city comparisons are probably invalid on many levels. The bottom line is all big cities have too much crime, and we should be focused on how to eliminate it rather than crowing about who may be a few percentage points higher or lower.

Some like who? One fruitcake school administrator floated that in front of the Council. It was immediately shot down and everybody keeps bringing it up as if it had a snowflake's chance in hell of being approved. And I see the firings are a PLUS not a minus. It means the new Police Chief is determined to clean this department up.

Geez, that quote from AcePlace dates back to November 2003. Shouldn't there be a time limit on digging up outlandish statements to complain about? AcePlace's whereabouts are long since unknown. -- so he can't even defend his remarks.

UPDATES... Ritz-Carlton Tower I and The Azure Ritz-Carlton Tower I Hunt Tower

Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Construction has begun on a new multi-venue performing arts center for music, opera, theater and dance that will include the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House and Annette Strauss Artist Square, both designed by Foster and Partners, the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, co-designed by Pritzker Award-winning architect Rem Koolhaas (OMA) and Joshua Prince-Ramus (REX), and City Performance Hall, designed by Skidmore Owings Merrill. The four venues will be woven together by a new Performance Park covering more than ten acres, which will unify the buildings and create a dynamic cultural destination in downtown Dallas.

Actually, the AAC did not open until late summer 2001.

It's not in a "bad location". It's exactly where it needs to be to serve all the new residential projects that are coming on line in the next couple of years.

UT-Arlington isn't in Dallas proper, but it's only a short 10 mile drive from my house. So I take classes there and claim it as a "Dallas" instutution.

Come on, I know Houston is gigantic. But who would consider a city with 342 square miles of area "pretty small geographically"? A trip from the George Bush Turnpike in Far North Dallas to South of I-20 in Mountain Creek can easily span nearly 40 miles. Small geographically? Try San Francisco, Miami, or Atlanta -- but Dallas? Hardly.

OK, you win! Office vacancy in downtown Dallas is high (A, B, C, or Z). From what I can tell it's been that way for a very, very long time. Despite all this, some people (with access to large sums of money) think it's time to build more of it. I say, more power to them. Some see uptown as just an extension of downtown. As the excitment and buzz around uptown spreads across Woodall-Rogers, then maybe the downtown vacancy rate finally improves. Sounds like a plan, anyway.

That's 211 N. Ervay and it is vacant. Rumors have circulated that it either be redeveloped as apartments or possibly demolished for a park. Right now, don't know which is true, but I hope it's saved. This thread at Dallas Metropolis discusses the building: http://forum.dallasmetropolis.com/showthre...53&page=1&pp=40

You can toss out "doom and gloom" office vacancy rates inside Dallas' traditional downtown loop as much as you'd like, the truth is there hasn't been this much exciting activity in the core in decades. Huge residential retail, and office projects are popping up all over downtown. Just the projects currently underway include the massive Mercantile redevelopment, Fidelity Union Towers (Mosaic), Joule' Urban Resort, The Metropolitan, Republic Tower I, One Arts Plaza, Third Rail Lofts: [Gulf States Tower, 1414 Elm, 1407 Main], Hunt Tower, Corgan HQ Bldg and The Dallas Roof Gardens, Employers Insurance Bldg Addition (no doubt I missed some). Approved and soon to begin are the Winspear Opera House and Wyly Theatre for the Performing Arts. A plethora of additional projects are in various stages of planning. At least some of those will ultimately be completed. I wouldn't seriously regard any area with that much current and future activity as being "hollowed out".

Complex May Be Uptown's Missing Link Big McKinney Avenue project envisioned as connection to downtown 12:00 AM CDT on Friday, June 23, 2006 By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News A vacant block that developers hope will provide a link between Uptown and downtown Dallas will soon be sprouting a mixed-use complex. Developers plan to build an office tower, retail space and condominiums on the 2.9 acres overlooking Woodall Rodgers Freeway and McKinney Avenue. Lincoln Property Co. is about four months away from a groundbreaking for the complex it will construct in partnership with Dallas' Corrigan Properties. The modern tower at 2000 McKinney Ave. will house the headquarters of Texas Capital Bank, which is already located in Uptown. "We were looking for a significant building," said Jody Grant, chairman and CEO of Texas Capital Bank. The bank will take about 100,000 square feet of the 445,000-square-foot building. The 20-story tower will be the biggest office building constructed in Uptown in more than a decade. Lincoln Property will also move its home office from downtown to the new building when it opens in 2008. Corrigan Properties will also locate in the building. It's the first center city office tower Lincoln has built since 1984. "We've been working on this site for the better part of two years," said David Pettle, executive vice president of Lincoln Property. In the meantime, construction has boomed in Uptown. And plans have progressed to construct a park that would bridge Woodall Rodgers Freeway between Lincoln's building site and downtown. "We wanted this project to have a presence on McKinney Avenue and the south end fronting the park toward downtown," said Lincoln's senior vice president Elliott Prieur. "The project will look like it will have two front doors." About 20,000 square feet of retail space

Urban Market just needs to hang on until all the residential projects currently under construction downtown are open. Those thousands of new neighborhood customers are all it really needs to survive and thrive. The City is currently putting together a package of incentives for the investors to make sure they stay the course until that happens.

Nope, I can't afford it and probably never will. But it's hard for me to see any downside.

Putting on the Ritz Ritz-Carlton Village

Taken Saturday at the Dallas City Arts Fest in the fast-growing Dallas Arts District.

Another rendering of the 650' Victory Tower

Victory Plaza from Chase Tower Sky Lobby

Buses share highways with automobile traffic. Accidents will cause delays for buses while rail passengers are unaffected by traffic tie ups. IMO one of the primary advantages of rail over buses. I take the Red Line from far Southwest Dallas to work downtown everyday and I never have to concern myself with morning traffic reports. And I get to work at EXACTLY the same time every day. Trains run like clockwork.

... As warmth and blue skies return to Downtown Dallas.

... As warmth and blue skies return to Downtown Dallas.

The Woodall-Rogers Expressway (Soon to be covered and bridged) The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Playground equipment for the larger kids in Big D. Give Me Some of the Old Time Religion (The JPMorgan Chase Tower and the Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe) The Dallas Museum of Art The Nasher Sculpture Center and The Myerson Symphony Hall Complementary JP Morgan Chase and San Jacinto Towers Mother and Child Reunion And through it all, we're still DALLAS!

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