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Airline launches its first DFW Airport to Florida route, prices start at $39
Sun Country Airlines is launching two Florida flights from Dallas Fort Worth Airport this week. It will mark the first time the airline has operated a scheduled flight to Florida that originated at DFW Airport.
The airline's new DFW-to-Fort Myers route begins Wednesday, and a DFW-to-Tampa flight will start Friday. Sun Country said flights to Fort Myers and Tampa are available for as little as $39 and $49, respectively.It also flies to Cancun out of DFW and will start a DFW-to-Punta Cana, Dominican Republic route in November.
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Dallas area lands two more huge Amazon shipping hubs
Amazon is expanding its warehousing operations with two huge fulfillment centers — one in West Dallas and another on Interstate 45 in southern Dallas County.
This week the Dallas City Council voted to give the Seattle-based Internet retailer about $2 million in economic incentives to build a more than $100 million distribution center in West Dallas that is expected to create 1,500 new jobs.The 100-acre ecommerce facility will be located at 1301 Chalk Hill Road near Davis Street south of Interstate 30. Developer Hillwood Properties is building the huge shipping hub which will have 855,000 square feet.
Amazon already has nine major distribution and sorting centers in the D-FW area.
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Not a fan of the surface parking, but this is what Dallas needs more of - developments that fit the context of their neighborhood.
Look: Here’s what’s planned for the old Gloria’s
Gloria’s restaurant moved to Fire Station No. 15 on Bishop at Davis in 2011, and the local chain’s original building, at the southeast corner of Davis and Llewellyn, was demolished in 2013.
The lot sat vacant for years until recently. A new restaurant building is under construction on the site now.A listing from the Woodmont Co. says the building will comprise 2,546 square feet and have a 900-square-foot patio.
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Developers are betting smaller is better with new East Dallas rental project
The 70-unit Fitzhugh Flats development will have 1-bedroom and studio apartments averaging just 615 square feet.
The project is being built east of downtown Dallas between Ross Avenue and Live Oak Street.The project will include garages and covered parking spaces, storage units, a lounge and dog park for residents.
"Our goal is to provide a project that will appeal to the majority of renters in the market based on the price point" said Reid Beucler, principal of Slate Properties LLC.
"With projected rents starting around $1,200 per month, we feel like we are positioned well to compete with the other communities in the neighborhood." -
Air France plans nonstop DFW-to-Paris flights starting in March
Air France is saying bonjour to North Texas for the first time in more than a decade, with planned nonstop service between DFW International Airport and Paris set to launch in March of next year.
The new service will be operated aboard an Airbus A330 with 224 seats beginning March 31 and running through the 2019 summer season. The French carrier said it will operate three weekly flights from March 31 through June 30; and from Sept. 4 to Oct. 25.
In July and August, that will increase to five weekly flights, with departures on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
It will be the 16th international carrier serving DFW Airport.North Texas is home to offices or other facilities of 120 French-owned companies, with France ranking as the 13th largest trade partner for the region, according to Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Rawlings, along with Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price, visited France in June along with a delegation of airport and other local officials in a trade mission that included a meeting with Air France executives.
"Our recent mission trip to France was intended to spark even more corporate activity between our regions," Rawlings said in a statement. "These new flights will strengthen our business ties with France and western Europe and expand our capacity to travel between DFW and Paris." -
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Dallas' midcentury Casa View Village shopping center gets a major makeover
Developers and city officials say the commuter consternation will be worth it early next year when a $10 million-plus makeover of the retail crossroads is done.
Casa View Village was once hailed as "a modern shopping center for one of the fastest growing areas of Dallas." But 60 years on from the grand opening, the retail district in northeast
Dallas was well past its prime when neighborhood leaders and city planners began crafting a redo.
Now construction is underway on upgrades for the shopping village that's at the heart of one Dallas' 1950s neighborhoods.
"We are 30 days into what we believe will be a 6- to 8-month renovation of the buildings at the northwest corner," said Daniel Fuller with Dallas' Shop Cos., which is redeveloping the landmark retail center.Originally called Casa View Hills, the retail strips served growing post-World War II neighborhoods where you could buy a new house for less than $8,000. Built with antique brick and decorative wrought iron, the Casa View buildings that Shop Cos. is now rebuilding were described as "New Orleans-style."
The new owners plan to restore the buildings and bring in new retail and restaurant tenants.
"There are probably three or four tenants that have been there since 1954," Fuller said. "There is an art and science to merchandising a property that has the history Casa View has.
"We want to keep some of the tenants that have been there for a long time."Award-winning Dallas architect Omniplan — the same firm that designed Liberty Mutual Insurance's huge new Plano regional offices and NorthPark Center shopping mall in Dallas — worked with Casa View's owners, residents and the city on a renovation plan.
"The neighborhood, you could tell, was once something really fantastic," said Omniplan's Amanda Buckley. "This project is about getting back to what it was.
"There is a lot of opportunity there," she said. "It's not like a standard suburban shopping center with no character.""It's a wonderful eccentric property, and our goal is to do a sensitive restoration," Fuller said. "We want to preserve the original brick with the wonderful patina."
The storefront canopies will be restored, lights and signage upgraded and the central plaza reworked with new paving and landscaping.
"We are planting 60 new ornamental and shade trees at Casa View," Fuller said. "I think by year-end it will be quite a lot different."
Neighbors like what they are hearing and wish it could move even faster. -
Cityplace high-rise on the drawing board for original skyscraper site
Cityplace has asked the city for approval to build a project that is larger than the current zoning allows.
"It's one of the last two sites we have left," said Cityplace president Neal Sleeper.
"We are trying to pump up the density a little bit. We've got all the height we need."
Sleeper said the planned high-rise for the site would be mostly office space.
"We are hoping to do a significant office building and a hotel," he said. "That's where the second tower was originally going to be, so we want to have something of prominence." -
Baylor Scott & White plans massive office center on edge of Deep Ellum in Dallas
A new office project coming on the edge of Deep Ellum in Dallas will relocate hundreds of jobs to the area.
Baylor Scott & White Health plans to build a large office administration complex with more than 600,000 square feet of construction in the 3700 block of Elm Street.
The planned office center is just south of Baylor's huge Dallas campus. Building permits value the project at more than $70 million.
The project will include 300,000 square feet of office space and a parking garage.
Officials with the Dallas-based hospital and health care firm confirmed they are working on a major development.Construction is expected to be completed by late 2020.
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Developer Trammell Crow builds immigration services center at DFW Airport
The General Services Administration will lease the almost 260,000-square-foot building for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' Texas Service Center.
The center will have both office and support space and will be ready in early 2020."By consolidating several locations, the USCIS will be able to more efficiently deliver on their important mission," Crow's Scott Krikorian said in a statement.
Gensler is the architect and Manhattan Construction Company will is the general contractor for the project. JPMorgan Chase Bank provided construction financing.
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Dallas' Paul Quinn College grows with new multipurpose building
Dallas' Paul Quinn College has broken ground on its first new building in 40 years.
The historic southern Dallas University is constructing the 40,000 square-foot educational and residential building with the help of $7 million in contributions.
The multipurpose building will be named after one of the university's biggest benefactors, Dallas businessman and environmentalist Trammell S. Crow.RBA Architects designed the new building and Crimson Building Co. and Burchfield & Partners are developers of the project.
"The Crow Living and Learning Center will be the first of many new structures built on this campus," Paul Quinn College president Michael Sorrell said in a statement.
The school is the oldest historically African American college west of the Mississippi River.
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New apartment and retail project on the way across from Galleria in Far North Dallas
Developers have broken ground in Far North Dallas near the Galleria on a new apartment and retail center.
The project by PegasusAblon includes 289 luxury rental units plus the redo of an existing shopping center with an amphitheater and stage, fountains, dining and additional retail. Called Ablon at Galleria Muse, the mixed-use project will be at the northwest corner of Alpha and Noel roads across the street from the Galleria shopping mall.
Dallas' PegasusAblon and partner Lionstone Investments plan to have the project done by early 2020, said developer Michael Ablon."We wanted to create an urban project that is a complimentary experience to the Galleria mall," Ablon said. "This is going to be the heart of that whole area."
"We are building on what used to be the parking lot," Ablon said.
The six-story apartment block will include a parking garage and additional ground floor retail space."Our plan is to re-engage visitors at the street level, creating a destination environment for the community," Ablon said.
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Renovation plan would turn 93-year-old West End building into hotel in downtown Dallas
A plan in the works would convert a historic building in downtown Dallas' West End district into a new hotel.
The Sanger Brothers garage at 711 Elm St. was built in 1925 as one of the city's first "high-rise" parking garages. The five-story brick building sits across the street from where the Sanger Brothers department store was — now El Centro College.
Irving-based hotel firm Icon Lodging bought the Elm Street building in April and has been working with Dallas' Merriman Anderson Architects to come up with a plan to redevelop the garage.Merriman Anderson recently made a preliminary presentation to the Dallas Landmark Commission, which asked them to go back to the drawing board and rework the hotel proposal. The initial plan would have added six levels of hotel rooms on top of the old parking structure. But commission members and staff weren't fully on board with that plan.
"Our client wants to find a way to make this happen," Anderson said. "It's a unique and special building.
"We are working hard with the Landmark Commission, and they have been responsive and understanding." -
Dallas' landmark Cityplace Tower has a new owner with big plans for the high-rise
The high-profile building on the edge of Dallas' Uptown district was acquired by Dallas' Highland Capital Management in one of the largest building sales in Dallas so far in 2018.
The 42-story Cityplace Tower on North Central Expressway is the tallest building outside of downtown Dallas. Built in 1987, the 1.4 million-square-foot high-rise has been owned since 2013 by Florida-based investor Parmenter Realty Partners and Angelo, Gordon & Co."We hope to transform the surrounding area with our strategic renovations and improvements," adds Dondero. "Cityplace was designed to anchor an ambitious urban development, and we believe our plans will revitalize that vision."
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For the first time, DFW Airport will have nonstop service to Ireland
DFW International Airport will offer new nonstop seasonal flights to Dublin and Munich starting next summer. It's the first time the airport has offered a route to Ireland and will mark the airport's third flight to Germany.
The flights, operated by American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL), will start June 6, 2019, and occur daily until the fall.
"These new flights will advance DFW Airport's mission to bring more international passenger and cargo service to the Dallas-Fort Worth region," said Sean Donohue, CEO at DFW Airport, in a prepared statement.When service for these routes launches next summer, it'll make 235 destinations — 59 of which are international — that DFW Airport services. The airport has added 21 international destinations this decade.
This isn't the first European splash the airport has made this year. In May, the airport added routes to Reykjavík, Iceland, through three airlines, including American. -
Dallas hotel building boom is second only to New York City
Dallas' hotel building boom shows no sign of a let up.
Dallas has a total of 156 hotel projects with 18,908 rooms in the construction pipeline or planned in the second quarter, according to a new report by Lodging Econometrics, which tracks hotel construction.
New York City was first in the country with 169 hotel projects."If all of the projects in the pipeline eventually come to fruition, this will increase the city's guest room supply by 21.3 percent," Lodging Economics said in the new report.
"Dallas should continue its fast-paced growth.
"In the first half of the year, it led all markets for the most new hotel projects announced into the pipeline, with 27 projects and 3,195 rooms."
Most of the current construction in the Dallas area is located in Denton, Lewisville, McKinney, Plano and Frisco, according to the report."Historically, according to our hotel real estate intelligence, the New York City market has led the construction pipeline by projects since third quarter 2011," said J.P. Ford, Lodging Econometrics' senior vice president. "This has been followed by Houston.
"However, in Q1 2018, Dallas surpassed Houston to take the second spot in regards to hotel construction," Ford said. -
D-FW is the nation's undisputed king of home construction in the latest ranking
With 36,264 home starts in the 12 months ending with the second quarter, D-FW far surpassed other big American housing markets for total production, according to a new report by housing analyst Metrostudy Inc.
D-FW builders are starting about 40 percent more homes than in the Atlanta and Phoenix metro areas and almost 70 percent more than in Denver.
D-FW home starts rose 12.7 percent annually in the just-released second-quarter housing comparison.
North Texas has been a leading U.S. housing market since the end of the Great Recession.
"We will continue to secure the top position for the next few years," said Metrostudy's regional director Paige Shipp.
"During the past 12 months, we started 6,300 more new homes than Houston [the No. 2 U.S. market], and our growth pace is twice that of Houston. -
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DFW Airport Receives DOT Commitment for $180 Million
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport received a Letter of Intent from the Federal Aviation Administration committing up to $180 million in Airport Improvement Program grant funding for two end-around taxiway systems. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao delivered the Letter of Intent to the Airport in person, underscoring the importance of investing in airport infrastructure.
The next phase of the end-around taxiways is already under construction on DFW’s northeast quadrant, with completion anticipated by 2021. DFW Airport’s southwest quadrant taxiway is expected to be built by 2023. The federal funding included in the Letter of Intent could cover up to half of the overall cost of the next two phases.End-around taxiways enable arriving aircraft to taxi around DFW’s seven active runways rather than wait to cross them. The taxiways enhance safety because they virtually eliminate runway crossings, reducing the risk of possible incursions. End-around taxiways ultimately produce gains in runway efficiency and reduce overall taxi times for arriving aircraft.
The taxiway projects are a key part of DFW’s overall 10-year infrastructure improvement plan, which includes enhancing or rebuilding runways, roadways, bridges and other major infrastructure needs on the Airport grounds.
Separately, Secretary Chao also delivered a $31 million AIP grant for the rehabilitation of Runway 17-C at the Airport. Construction on Runway 17-C is scheduled to be complete in 2019, with minimal disruption to customers. -
New owners of Dallas' landmark Infomart eye construction of addition
Equinix - a global data center company which paid $800 million for the Infomart - says it plans to build a $21.25 million, 61,805 square-foot building on at the Infomart at 1900 N. Stemmons Freeway.
The 1.6 million-square-foot Infomart building was built in the 1980s and is located northwest of downtown Dallas.
Info mart's owners didn't provide details of what would be built or when.The April Infomart sale was one of the priciest property purchases in Dallas history.
The filigreed, 7-story building on Stemmons Freeway was patterned after London's famed 19th century Crystal Palace.
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Humphreys architects shoot for simplicity in Uber skyport design
For Uber to get its “flying taxis” in the air, the ride-sharing company will need launch-and-land pads — called skyports — to support the futuristic service.
At Uber’s second annual Elevate summit in May, six architecture firms presented their designs for what the skyports will look like.
Today, we'll look at the concept from Dallas-based Humphreys & Partners Architects, which is modeled after a beehive because the Uber aircraft around the skyport would replicate a bee’s flight patterns to and from a hive.Prototypes of the Uber aircraft are under development by Fort Worth-based Bell and a handful of other manufacturers nationwide. Dallas developer Hillwood Properties also is working with Uber on the flying taxi program.
UberAIR plans to start demonstrating the technology in 2020 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Dubai, and start operating the flying taxi service in the three test markets in 2023.
From there, San Francisco-based Uber plans to roll out the service in large urban areas worldwide.Humphreys & Partners is one of six design finalists for the project. Other DFW finalists include Dallas-based Corgan, BOKA Powell and Beck, and Duncanville-based Arup.
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Uptown building headed for overhaul by Crescent Real Estate
Developer Crescent Real Estate says it plans a "top-to-bottom redesign" of a 1980s Uptown office tower it purchased earlier this year.
Dallas architect Corgan is redesigning the exterior and inside of the granite and glass tower. A new glass tower at the entrance of the building will dramatically change the project.
At least one restaurant will be built along Maple Avenue with outdoor patio space.
"Our goal is to make 2401 Cedar Springs a part of Uptown, engaging not just the people who work there but those who live, work and play nearby."
Construction is expected to be completed in early 2019.
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