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The old Statler has a new owner who plans to renovate and redevelop the structure. Hopefully this time it will actually happen (the owners are redeveloping another tower downtown).
http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/03/statler-hilton-sold-to-develop.html
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The building was re-planned as a hotel on a few occasions, but never as condos as far as I'm aware. The lower ceilings were in the hotel section on the upper floors. The lower floors were offices and had higher ceilings.
Interesting. I didn't know about the different ceiling heights, but now looking at the photo the difference is clear. Low ceiling heights are one issue with converting the Dallas Statler-Hilton into apartments/condos.But not everyone wants/needs a very high ceiling.
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Was this building ever considered for residential conversion? It seems the narrow floorplates and operable windows would have made it a good apartment/condo tower (especially if there was attached parking).
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Qantas is starting DFW-Sydney service in May:
Qantas said today it would begin direct flights to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) on May 16, after ending flights to San Francisco on May 14.The Dallas/Fort Worth service would provide Qantas with access to American Airlines regional network, meaning it could offer codeshare services to another 13 destinations in the US and three in Mexico.
Qantas said it would operate four times a week direct from Sydney to Dallas/Fort Worth starting May 16, using a three-class Boeing 747.
The return leg will fly through Brisbane.
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Green Line service (and Lake Highlands Station on the Blue Line) began today!
New Green Line 'starts to complete' DART vision
09:08 AM CST on Sunday, December 5, 2010
By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER / The Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/120510dnmetgreenmain.1bf8a3c.html
After nearly 30 years – and $7.4 billion in sales taxes collected – Texas' most ambitious experiment with public transit enters a new era Monday, when Dallas Area Rapid Transit trains begin running full-time on the new Green Line from southern Dallas all the way north to Carrollton.
The new line makes DART the largest light-rail system in the United States, an accomplishment that comes just a generation after the agency's creation. With larger trains, a longer route and stops at two of Dallas' largest medical centers, the $1.8 billion Green Line is more than just big: It begins to deliver on three decades of promises to make rail relevant throughout its service area.
"The Green Line really starts to complete the rail service" as envisioned in the 1980s, said DART president Gary Thomas, who has overseen the agency for nearly a decade. By connecting southeast Dallas, the Parkland hospital district, Love Field and beyond, "it really starts to complete the system."
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INTERACTIVE MAP: http://www.dallasnews.com/database/2010/greenline.html
DART INFORMATION: http://www.dart.org/news/news.asp?id=942
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We've had these in downtown Dallas for a few years, and they have been effective in controlling crime. There are currently 115 police cameras throughout the city.
http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Downtown-Dallas-cameras-capture-crimes-accidents-107710798.html
"Dallas' cameras led to more than 1,142 arrests in 2008. Last year, the figure rose to 1,536 arrests. During the first ten months of 2010, the cameras have helped capture 2,290 people breaking the law."
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Here is some information on the Green Line Station Art & Design Program:
http://www.dart.org/about/publicart/publicartgreenline.asp
The Green Line opens this weekend! http://www.dart.org/about/expansion/greenlinesupersaturday2010.asp
or VIEW THE PDF BROCHURE: http://www.dart.org/about/publicart/GreenLineArt2010.pdf
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November 23:
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Nice idea - but I'd question an open air vehicle in Houston.
During rain and during winter, the sides are covered in plastic much like a golf cart would be. It's more approachable than a dark van/shuttle bus (it doesn't scare the suburbanites), it's relatively inexpensive (LINK), and there's no emissions or noise. It's not a solution for anything longer than a few blocks (Dallas had to make some changes for it to be street legal) but it has been an interesting experiment. You see similar -- but not as stylish -- electric shuttles at amusement parks or fairs.
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The Art Cart works well in Dallas. It's basically a 14-passenger golf cart. It travels around the Arts District taking people between restaurants at One Arts Plaza and the art facilities (and even to the DART station). People hop on for a drink before the opera or for an express ride down Flora Street. What makes it successful is that it is free and easy to hop on and off. There are talks of adding more of these small shuttles around downtown.
http://artsplazaevents.blogspot.com/2009/11/art-cart.html
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The new DART rail map and schedules have been released. The remainder of the Green Line, Lake Highlands Station (infill Blue Line) and limited Orange Line service open December 6!
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Here's the webcam. Crane is up now.
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First Baptist Dallas implodes buildings to make way for renovation
by CASSIE CLARK
Dallas Morning News
Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:06 AM
With a series of ear-piercing pops, nearly 200 pounds of dynamite brought down a portion of First Baptist Dallas in downtown this morning.
Cheers and whistles could be heard from a viewing area on the 14th floor of the Hartford Building where a small crowd including Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, First Baptist Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress and a bevy of photographers watched as four buildings were imploded.
A cloud of dust and debris filled the air, but thanks to the chilly and dense air, it was nearly clear within 15 minutes of the demolition, which is making way for a $115 million facility that will include a new sanctuary, an education building, a fountain plaza and 1 acre of public green space.
"There's no sadness," Jeffress said. "Just great memories."
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H&M opening first Texas store at Dallas' NorthPark Center
07:04 PM CDT on Tuesday, October 26, 2010
By MARIA HALKIAS mhalkias@dallasnews.com
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/102710dnbushm.154fc0d.html
It's finally official. NorthPark Center is getting Texas' first H&M store.
The Swedish fast-fashion retailer plans to open a 24,000-square-foot store at NorthPark in the second half of 2011.
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It's likely that NorthPark won't be the only store H&M opens in Dallas over the next few years. It has about 200 stores in the U.S., including 10 in both Manhattan and Chicago, five in Atlanta and three in St. Louis.
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In Dallas, it could be moving into the space vacated in January by upscale furniture retailer Robb & Stucky. That two-level furniture store opened in 2006 as part of NorthPark's $225 million expansion.
Known for its low prices, H&M isn't exactly the upscale coup that NorthPark brags about scoring, as it does with its recent Gucci opening. But it battles with Galleria Dallas and a plethora of regional malls and shopping centers in the market to secure the first-in-the market stores, especially if the concept has the cool factor associated with H&M.
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This article mentions that Houston may be participating soon...
Billy Joel Rocks a Better Block, or: How an Oak Cliff Experiment Is Turning Into a National Movement (and a Website and a Book!)
By Robert Wilonsky, Wed., Oct. 20 2010 @ 2:49PM
Categories: Development, Transportation
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/10/billy_joel_rocks_a_better_bloc.php
This afternoon I stumbled across this website: The Better Block: A Planning Tool for Urban Retrofit . Which, of course, refers to Jason Roberts's twice-executed Oak Cliff experiment in which the peoples, armed with cafe seating and greenery and chalk-marked bike lanes, take back the streets and sidewalks. Roberts is behind the site, but he tells Unfair Park this afternoon that he has collaborators: Patrick "Car-Free" Kennedy and urban planner Andrew Howard.
Says Roberts, the need for the site, which launched yesterday, arose when several other cities began calling and asking how to replicate the Oak Cliff Better Block Project. Rather than explain it over and over again, they launched the site -- which includes a brief how-to, which for now will serve as a prelude to a book the threesome are in the process of writing.
"I get calls from all over the place," Roberts says. "Memphis called us yesterday. Houston called, Fort Worth just did theirs, Maryland's doing one, Deep Ellum has theirs coming up, Greenville Avenue and Farmers Branch are doing one. So we thought, 'Let's aggregate so everyone can have access to this information. We should try to learn from each other so we can apply the best practices.' That's kind of the thought."
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Back in March a little urban experiment in Dallas (Oak Cliff) temporarily transformed a pedestrian-hostile environment into a walkable, vibrant public space by implementing "complete street" ideals.
Since then, this project has been adapted and repeated across the country. There is now a website and guide available for other interested communities.
The new website: http://betterblock.org/
Oak Cliff Better Block 1 (the one that started it all):
http://betterblock.org/2010/10/19/the-original-better-block/
Oak Cliff Better Block 2:
http://betterblock.org/2010/10/19/oak-cliff-better-block-2-1300-west-davis-street/
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Here are some articles about the move/expansion:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/6841225.html
http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2010/10/06/exxon-mobil-hq-staying-in-irving/
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Here's a video with all of the DART updates:
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Yea but how will people get to the rail? This essentially seems like a Park&Ride rail system.
Outside of the urban districts, DART operates as a Park & Ride system; that's the reason for the large commuter parking lots. Las Colinas Urban Center Station will have a direct connection to the Las Colinas APT.
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I'm impressed by DART's can do attitude, and I mean that dead seriously, but who are the people that are going to be riding this system that seems to be generally in the middle of nowhere based on the pics? You seriously can't hope that TOD's just spring along the rail over time?
The Orange Line connects Irving to downtown Dallas and should see high ridership. Once the line and its extensions are complete in 2014, it will connect DFW Airport to Las Colinas, North Lake College, the University of Dallas, Love Field, Southwestern Medical District and Downtown Dallas. The line will also include same-seat service to Plano during peak times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Line_(Dallas_Area_Rapid_Transit)
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Updated aerial images from Orange Line construction.....
Bachman Station junction
Over Harry Hines Blvd.
Over Stemmons Freeway
Over Trinity River
Adjacent to Carpenter Freeway
University at Dallas Station
Las Colinas Urban Center Station
Irving Convention Center Station
Over Carpenter Freeway
Over MacArthur Blvd.
North Lake College Station
Crossing Bush Turnpike and Beltline Rd. Station (DFW Airport, future terminus, in the distance)
More photos: http://www.dart.org/newsroom/imagelibrary.asp#orange
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Design of Dallas' Perot Museum of Nature & Science melds nature, technology
10:30 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 18, 2010
By SCOTT CANTRELL / The Dallas Morning News
Refinements to the design of the Perot Museum of Nature & Science are being unveiled today at the museum's construction center. The museum, expected to open in early 2013, is launching a "Final Fifty" campaign to raise the last $50 million in the $185 million project.
Even as concrete and rebar have been rising at the northwest corner of Woodall Rodgers Freeway and Field Street, architects and consultants have been reworking initial renderings shown last September.
The cladding, initially undetermined, will be panels of precast concrete, with horizontal striations both convex and concave. In apparently random combinations, lending striking shadows, the striations will give way to smooth surfaces on higher levels of the building.
"It's a very simple building, a cube, which is basically straightforward," says Thom Mayne, the Pritzker Prize laureate who heads Morphosis Architects Inc., based in Los Angeles. "The surface is going to make it very active and lively."
A 150-foot escalator housing jutting out from the south side of the building, partly glazed and partly opaque in the original design, will instead be completely enclosed in glass.
Defying the usual opacity of museum designs, Mayne and his colleagues have made a point of opening up as much of the Perot Museum as possible. A large glazed gash in the southeast corner of the building will give great views of downtown Dallas and will allow outsiders to see well into the museum's multiple levels. Lower-level classrooms will have skylights from a rolling roof covered with native drought-resistant grasses.
"We charged the architects – any place we can have light, we want light," says Nicole G. Small, the museum's CEO.
From those plantings and a small forest of native trees near the entrance to the high-tech look of the 14-story cube, the museum will telegraph its combination of nature and science. Landscape design is by the Dallas firm Talley Associates.
Water runoff from the lower-level roof will be captured in two 25,000-gallons cisterns for the building's nonpotable water needs.
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Here's a video animation of the DFW Airport rail station:
The Sanctuary Lofts At 4411 Dallas St.
in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston
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Interesting building. Here's another story about the demolition:
http://culturemap.com/newsdetail/03-27-11-church-of-redeemer-imperiled-architecture/