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Dallas is known as a very racist city.
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Designer Starck plans Victory condos
Frenchman says he'll bring 'global view' to 150-unit high-rise
12:19 AM CDT on Tuesday, June 28, 2005
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...y.5121dd9e.html
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
"The last time Philippe Starck made a splash in Dallas, he opened a nightclub during the go-go 1980s real estate boom....."
"RICHARD MICHAEL PRUITT/DMN
London developer John Hitchcox (left) and Philippe Starck plan to collaborate with a Boston architecture firm on a 26-story residential building at Victory called the House. So it's only fitting that the French designer is back to play a part in Dallas' current craze
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Would love to see more pictures of what McDougal is doing across University from Texas Tech. I'm out there maybe once a year. Two years ago it looked like a war zone with all the rubble, then last year there were apts popping up like seeds, wondering what it looks like now, and if someone could keep us updated. Also how is the Marsha Sharp Freeway coming?
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2 office towers set for Victory
Galleria builder joins Hillwood to construct first work spaces
10:28 PM CDT on Tuesday, June 21, 2005
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
Link: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...y.31b9b7bb.html
"Houston developer Hines is teaming up with Ross Perot Jr.'s Hillwood development firm to build two office towers at Uptown's Victory project.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The 33-story W Dallas Victory Hotel & Residences with 144 condominiums, 251 hotel rooms and 42,500 square feet of retail space. To open in May....The Terrace, a seven-story, 95-unit condominium building with 24,000 square feet of retail space. To open in May. ...The Vista, a 125-unit apartment building with 25,000 square feet of retail space. To open in May....The buildings will be constructed near Continental Avenue and Stemmons Freeway, at the south end of the 75-acre Victory complex between the West End entertainment district and American Airlines Center....."
"....Hines built the Galleria Dallas mall and office high-rises all over the globe...."We hope it's no more than six months away from a groundbreaking," said Mr. Woods. "The first building will be 18 stories with retail on the ground floor."....."It is seeing firsthand the new development going on down there," Mr. Elliott said. "There are eight additional buildings coming on line in the next few years."..... Dallas architect BOKA Powell is designing the two-phase project. BOKA Powell has worked on other buildings proposed for Victory, including a 45-story office and condo tower to be built across the street from American Airlines Center....Almost $450 million in development is under way at Victory.........Next week, Victory's developers are scheduled to announce plans for yet another residential tower
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Merc developer is enthusiastic
Dallas: Council to vote on brokering deal worth millions in subsidies
Link:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...y.3181553b.html
08:44 PM CDT on Tuesday, June 21, 2005
By DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News
"...It's a project as complicated as it is expensive.
But the man responsible for the redevelopment of Dallas' Mercantile Bank complex and several other vacant downtown office towers gushed with confidence that they'll soon be filled with apartments, condominiums and retail space.
"We're going to do a hell of a good job in Dallas," David Levey, Forest City's executive vice president, said Tuesday. "And our deeds will be as strong as our words.".... The total project may cost upward of a quarter-billion dollars.
Mr. Levey said that despite the project's complexity and a near breakdown in negotiations with city officials last month, "we're confident, and we're moving forward."...."
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7-Eleven project has an artistic inspiration
Architects planning modern look for new headquarters building
Link to story with rendering:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...n.2ce369cf.html
10:45 PM CDT on Monday, June 20, 2005
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
"Developer Billingsley Co. is giving a first look at 7-Eleven Inc.'s new headquarters in downtown Dallas......The One Arts Plaza tower will be built of unembellished concrete, steel and glass. Its 'front door' will be Flora Street. "We are working on construction details right now and plan to break ground in July," said Lucy Billingsley, whose firm is building the $100 million project at Flora and Routh streets...."
"...Along with the convenience store chain's offices, the 24-story One Arts Plaza tower will contain an additional 180,000 square feet of multitenant office space, plus 71 luxury condominiums on top...."
"....."We are surrounded by these buildings done by world-class architects on essentially unlimited budgets," he said.....Instead of expensive stone or elaborate metal panels, the One Arts Plaza exteriors will be constructed of unembellished concrete, steel and glass......The building's upper levels are accented by a large section of glass wall and balconies for the condominiums.....On the ground floor, two glass and steel wings facing a plaza will have retail space and help mask the parking garage......"
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A city ordiance and zoning are two things that are different with a few similarities. Zoning is a way of preparing for development in the future. Looking at Dallas (only because I live here and work as an architect here) there are rules that have been set up by neighborhoods in cooperation with city government to regulate how things are developed. It is not a bad thing at all, if anything it promotes quality developments that build on context so that we do not have an industrail building producing lots of waste, truck noises etc. right next to a residential building. What we are experiencing here is a reniassance of sorts within the City of Dallas and some the inner suburbs. Meaning a lot of cities are revisiting those zoning laws, height restrictions, so forth to ensure that the city can continue to grow and now has become directed more towards urban development. And with areas zoned differently we are seeing more concentrated develoments as land for certain permitted issues gets swallowed up. The suburbs and cities know they are having to compete with one another here, while cities like Frisco are just in their infancy. In Dallas they are calling it the "New Comprehensive Plan." What they are doing is looking at the history of all the neighborhoods, what economic impacts could be, what areas need to remain single family housing, consulting with the Urban Land Institure and an internationally renowned urban planner out of Portland, visiting with neighborhood associations...etc. to what zoning needs to be put in place for the future. Now in Houston may be this done by city oridances. Which can be rather confussing especially after working on projects all around the country. Because in my vocabulary a city ordanice is something like "no smoking in restuarants" or "no fireworks on the forth of July" or "trash pick up on tuesday and Friday" etc. But each place is different in how they like to use words. What we are finding here is a lot of positives coming out of the zoning (of course there are some negatives), but it is something that can easily be changed or have variances put in placed by the applicant. There is separate planning and zoning commision in just about every city depending on its size.
Some of what we are seeing is zoning puts into to place a stability of a neighborhood for what it is and what it will be in the future. With all the residential towers going up in Dallas (as of Uptown, Downtown, Turtle Creek, and Victory) developers are keeping within the limits of what is allowed by the zoning of that area. Land prices tend to go up when the land zoned for that particular area becomes limited, and the newer projects that come online seem to be more and more creative because the developer is looking for ways to ensure its profitability and sustainability in that neighborhood. This can be attained through other measures, possibility by city ordiances, but I am little puzzled. Puzzled because zoning typically concentrates on the area while a city ordiance pertains to the whole city. Zoning also tells developers/builders what is allowed in particular area in so that court costs are limited. Court costs would come from going for a variance or the neighborhood gettin in a tif because the new project is not what has been traditionally built in that neighborhood causing people to want to stop it. With the proper zoning the varanices are very limited if the building type is allowed the case would never go for a variance or to court (ideally, I've had personal experience with this one in uptown).
Case in point. The Arts District here. Just a month or so ago the city of Dallas after months of talks just passed new zoning for the arts district. They have struck up a deal that limits surface parking to basically none allowed for new building. The parking garages must match the fascade of the building as far as materials and language, certain amount of setbacks as the building rises, the amount of landscaping required etc. etc. Unless you get into some over controlling cities like Santa Fe or one in CA zoning is not going to go as far as "you have to have arches, or your building has to be this color, or you have to use brick" that is typically left up to a developer's planned development or a controlling neighborhood association. I'm not saying it does not happen but it is far removed from being the norm. What has happened over the past year (and this was just written up in the Dallas Morning News) is that land prices have jumped from 40/sq ft to almost 100/sq ft in the surrounding areas of the Arts District because Uptown is almost completely built out and the demand is increasing more and more for urban residential. The place that is the most flexible is across the freeway in the CBD. I can kind of see how an ordiance could address this. But again oridances typically deal with city issues while zoning deals with development issues.
It is absoulutely possible that because something is zoned commericial a strip mall can be built. Zoning can, and in the Arts District, does say "no" to that type of development. We have project here in uptown across the street from the Crescent and diagonally from the new Ritz where the developer is building a surban type strip center. But to get the parking and meet the landscaping requirments they have had to build an underground parking garage. Also the developer is now scurring around trying to find a co-developer to build low-midrise condos on the remaining land probably to offset the taxes on that land since prices of land have more then doubled in the past few years in Uptown. Also, where as, a strip center can go up in 6-8 months this one is taking well over a year to build because they have had to look at a much more sustainable design. Where as most of the strip centers can and do have a life span tacked on before its demolished.
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Yep, the building was originally a Holiday Inn, and the street was originally Calhoun. My favorite was its last name, the Heaven on Earth Inn. It was owned by some Maharishi.
Well you never know. The old Hilton Hotel here in Dallas near SMU and across the street from Mockingbird Station (Central and Mockingbird) was ownedby some Maharishi until last year. The hotel was bought by a developer and is now being converted in Palomar Hotel and residents by a new developer. Prices starting at something like 350,000 up to a couple million for the condos. This is all being built on the idea of the transit mall at Mockingbird Station. So you never know.
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Dallas Power & Light Grand Opening Sizzles
http://www.downtowndallas.com/current.htm#tif
"Over 1,000 people came out to celebrate the explosive grand opening of the Dallas Power and Light Building on Thursday, June 9, including DP&L Flats, 158 luxury residential rental units, and Fuse, a texasian restaurant, bar and lounge. The evening included a sampling of the FUSE menu, cocktails on the 12,000 square foot roof deck and tours of the DP&L luxury flats. Then, right at dusk, fireworks exploded over the crowd, adding to the awe of the evening.....
The entire DP&L complex is made up of three buildings at 1512 and 1506 Commerce. 1512 Commerce was originally constructed in 1903 as a five-story warehouse, and has since undergone periodic remodels and an addition of 9 stories. The 2-story art deco building adjacent to the high-rises will house additional restaurant and/or retail space. 1506 Commerce has stood 19 stories high in downtown Dallas since 1931, originally constructed for the Dallas Power & Light Company.....
Coming soon to the Dallas Power & Light Building will be Crimson in the City, a women's boutique, and additional restaurants, retail and a fitness center...."
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Downtown Connection TIF and Downtown Dallas Development Authority
UNANIMOUSLY approved by Dallas City Council
http://www.downtowndallas.com/current.htm#tif
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ummm...guys does it really matter. Taking a lesson from my church <grin>. Just a reference to Mr. X. But we will just keep doing our thing here in Dallas and there in Houston. We know we've got the goods in both cities, and both places are excelling. I watch as people come here by relocation, business travel or a visit. Its only those closed minded individuals with a little too much pride that think there is no meat in that sandwich. Keeping them from really getting outside their hotels and confereneces to see the wonderful things we have to offer. I always here it that these people "had no idea" what our cities have to offer. People on the East and West coast honestly put there places above all else. Coming from me living in NYC before. Fine by me, if you ask me. Because we do not pay extrodary taxes, rent, general cost of living as they do. The character, well, umm ya.... I rather have a good quality of life then be crammed in a place with hundreds of other people paying 300,000 for a 600 sq ft place because the town has more quote "character."
Here in Texas we are bringing it to the table, with new designs by top world architects, and building on the mistakes and prosperous solutions that other older cities have already embarked on in the East and West coasts. So if they want to slam Houston and Dallas then so be it. It's all good.... I just will take my cheaper rent in downtonw Dallas ($1.25/sq ft) with a 5 min commute to work and watch as my city transform and be proud I am a part of it. There are wonderful things both these cities have to offer whether they are similar or not.
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Here is some "eye candy" for what is currently being built at Victory Dallas. The W is already substantially on its way, while a huge pit for the foundations for the lower buildings has already been excavted with the bases of the sky cranes but in place. This film clip shows the "phase II" of the construction of Victory. Just click on the link below. Click on projects. Then click on Victory Development on the left-hand menu. Then click on video in the lower right hand screen and sit back/watch. Its about a 3 min clip showing all the building being built. They include the W, the terrace apts (7 stories), the icon diagonally across from the W, the new building flanking the American Airlines center, and a new 45 story office/residential tower next to the W.
Enjoy:
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...Dallas gets the Ritz because Dallas is the Texas city that most fits the "image" that the Ritz associates itself with. Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio are all hot, growing Texas/Sunbelt cities, .....
Basically, it boils down to public image. Places like The Ritz only build in cities that fit their corporate image. If another Texas city were to get a Ritz it would more than likely be Houston.
I believe Willy1 has a good point. Houston has a beautiful skyline, one that makes many of us Dallasites envious, and looking forward to the day we get new more modern skyscrapers. I think another big part to this is Cresent is huge power house nation wide for developing, has been working on this deal for several years. The location of this building it is currently being built on was not the first location. A few years back they looked at putting it in the high end area of Turtle Creek, but that fell through. Over the past few years, the uptown area has really been taking on its own unique character. One that is hard to find anywhere else in Texas, kinda like the Riverwalk in San Antonio. Where a few years ago uptown was really in its infancy. It was a success, but people still had strong reservations about it. Now rents are easily reaching 1.50 and some parts 2.00 per sq ft. When I first moved here 2 and half years ago there were some art galleries clustered with Antique shops. Now there is a whole private art gallery distrit that is emerging. I.E. George Micheal's long time partner just open a gallery called "Goss" off of Cedar Springs and Fairmont. This being among several well known artists who have been collaborating or setting up lone shops/galleries. Then you have the Arts District which is seeking to complete its master plan here by 2009, with its full funding of 275 million wrapping up to build three new perfomance halls. These include the Winspear Opera House, Wyly multi-purpose performoning center, and Dallas Perfomnace hall. Trammel Crow is also building a new office building flanked with an urban village at the end of Flora street creating a terminous for the Arts District, where 7-11 is moving its new headquarters.
The site sitting right in front of the Cresent Complex has now become a very high profile piece of property. It was rumored that the Cresent would never build there to protect its view of downtown, but that is one prime piece of real estate. With almost no more land left to build on in uptown, it sits as a transition point. When coming down Pearl from downtown passing by Cathedral de Santiago, Nasher Sculpture Garden, and Meyerson Symphony Center into uptown you are looking straight at the Cresent and soon the new Ritz-Carlton. The people residing in the Ritz well have amazing views looking over the new park that will cover Woodall Rogers, views of the Arts District, adjacent to the Federal Reserve with its own galleries, and all be in walking distance of the private art galleries, and fine dining.
In Houston's case, I read an article in the Houston Business Journal regarding high end hotels coming to Houston. Now this is only one source and third hand at that. There is a developer/developers looking at possibly building the second Texas "W" in Houston and/or toying with the Ritz. the Ritz would not comment because they don't talk about "rumors" but only done deals. The "W" mentioned something to the fact that Houston is city that meets its market niche when looking for cities to expand into. The developer also mentioned that if the Ritz where to come to Houston it would probably be another five years before the deal is complete and building can start because that is how long it takes to finalize such a deal. The "W" would not take as long. There were also some other hotels mentioned in that article.
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Well any of you that may be watching some of the events unfold in Dallas may have just heard about the Mercantile Building redo negotiations come to end with a negative result. Huge disappointment. HOWEVER, the day after that announcement we got another announcement of a new project near city hall. Essentially, a condo conversion with 30,000 sq ft of retail just a couple of blocks from the Merc. It can be very exciting and very fustrating hearing of development news in Dallas. Sad about the Merc (4th try to redevelop it so far), but exciting to hear of the new project.
link to the story in the Dallas Business Journal
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/...23/daily44.html
Downtown building in line for makeover
Sandra Zaragoza
" A developer who is planning a $150 million makeover for a vacant building across from Dallas City Hall is preparing to apply for $27 million in city funding, according to a source close to deal.....
....request city tax incentives comes on the heels of the Mercantile deal that fell apart on Wednesday. Cleveland-based Forest City Enterprises called off negotiations with city officials in a dispute over city funding. The company was seeking upwards of $60 million in tax incentives for a project that would have converted the Mercantile National Bank on Main Street into a retail and residential complex.....
Now, a Canada-based developer has plans to transform a vacant building, 500 S. Ervay St., into a 350-unit condominium project with 30,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. A hotel component could also be part of the complex....."
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I'm assuming that Uptown's zoned for both residential and commercial highrises but is it zoned in a way where the commercial highrises are noticeably seperated from the residential towers?
Thanks in advance.
Not too sure what you are asking here. If you are asking if there is a setback requirement between an office building and a residential tower, I would not think so. But only restrictions on the buildings themselves. If this where a neighborhood of homes, then this would be different.
I do not know what the restrictions are in this part of uptown, it really depends on where you are building. There are at least 3 planned districts within uptown. You have the St. Thomas PD, Oak Lawn which covers a large amount of Uptown (PD 193), and where the Ritz and the new office building are going, it is probably yet another. I know some of the building codes inparticular are being revisted for by the city council for the Arts District which is just on the other side of the Freeway where these buildings are going. There they have a set back requirement of for the building it reaches a certain height. (I belive 60ft or about 5 stories) Then the building is required to set back an additional amount from the property line and can go on for ever. Most of this has to do with daylight allowances.
Now in many building codes there are compatible building types allowed. So to answer your question, an office building is allowed to go adjacent to a residential tower and vice versa, but do not know of anything that will cause them to be seperated other then when you get into the heights.
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Well this is another project set for uptown. The retail/residential tower I posted was intended for this thread but got moved. This is another project announced today that will add to "uptown density." A 20 story office tower in uptown. It will be a couple blocks from the Cresent, one block from the new Ritz Carlton (under construction), across the street from 1999 Mckinney Ave (20 story residential tower and next to Sambuca. McKinney Ave is becoming another "main street" district for Dallas, but this time with tenants unlike downtown's main street.
Link to Dallas Morning News Story:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...n.d9ab8648.html
In Uptown, it's back to the office
Lincoln seeks tenants for area's biggest tower since 1999
10:50 PM CDT on Monday, May 23, 2005
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
"So far, the Uptown building boom has focused on residential and retail.
But that may soon change.
Developer Lincoln Property Co. is seeking tenants for the biggest office tower to be built in the area in more than a decade. Lincoln's building will have 400,000 square feet of space in 20 stories......"
"......"Supply presently is tight," said Jon Altschuler, managing director of Stream Realty Partners. "While demand currently is not exceptionally deep, there are several tenants floating around of size that could certainly serve as the impetus to jump-start a new development." ...."
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Any pictures of the building for those of us that don't live in Houston.
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From the May 20, 2005 print edition
California company to build in Uptown
Residential/retail tower planned
Sandra Zaragoza
Staff Writer
Another infill project for Uptown-Dallas. This time this project is on a very small piece of land behind the new Walmart Neighborhood Market. Slowly the new developments are pushing East of Central with very little left in Uptown. Here's a brief clip of the story.
link: http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/.../23/story2.html
"One of the last undeveloped sites in Uptown's popular State-Thomas neighborhood may soon sprout an 11-story residential/retail building....
"...."With the scarce amount of land left in the Uptown area, along with the revitalization of the downtown area, our firm was motivated to develop in the area and offer residents something different," said Jonathan Shokrian, regional director of Califco L.L.C.
Blaise McGinley of Dallas-based Orange Studio Inc., which has been tapped to design the building, says preliminary plans call for a tower with 13,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and 25 to 30 residential units. Parking may be sandwiched between the retail and the residences or may be underground. "
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I think its so funny when I ask people where they're from & they say "Dallas", then I ask where in Dallas & they reply with some place that isn't even in Dallas County like Plano or Arlington.
Ummmm...Does it matter? Go anywhere else say ummmm...Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, LA, Detroit, Miami, wherever else its the same story as in Dallas because those metros are made up of so many suburbs/surrounding towns and those people say they are from Chicago not Rosedale. Or for example one of our accounts we handle is a national restuarant chain working arround the country, our "Miami" project is in West Miami which is a suburb, and we have another in Boston but its in this suburb called bentree or deadtree or something. So I guess Metro Matt you are thinking its so funny about every other city in this country as well. So do you know where Wheaton, Poughkeepsie or Dunwoody is? One is a suburb of Chicago my family use to live in, one is a suburb of NYC where I have some friends, and another is suburb of Atlanta that I was born in. Even my parents to this day say I was born in Atlanta and we use to live in Chicago never the actual towns unless someone asks "which part?". People living outside New York city even in NJ (exception people in Newark----lots of civic pride there) say they are from New York City. Like one of my best friends who lives in West New York which is a city on the edge of the Hudson in NJ overlooking Manhattan.
Its a small detail and one that has been traveled down many of times before in this forum. But please don't disrupt a good friendly exchange of words about a show in order to take a swing at Dallas and resort back to kindergarten bickering.
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If you think the site itself is bad, wait until you see the site plan itself.
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These are old renderings of what the stadium would have looked like if it had been built in Downtown Dallas and included the "Town Square" development as planned.
As it stands now, the stadium will be built in Arlington next to Ameriquest Field and will NOT include the "Town Square" development.
A huge loss for Dallas here in not getting this porject built downtown with the development.
On a similar note, I wonder how some Dallasites feel about this. Everytime a local team has announced stadium plans, it includes lavish retail and entertainment developments to help make it attractive to voters. But when the project is built, the development does not happen. Ameriquest Field was supposed to have a "San Antoino-style" Riverwalk....didnt happen. American Airlines is supposed to have Victory by now....its very slow to happen adn due to problems with Hillwood Corp, it might not happen. And now this Cowboys debacle.
How do the voters that were promised this stuff feel now?
There seems to be this notion that a new stadium is like the magic "fat loss" pill for economic development. But it all comes back to the root of diet and exercise. Or in economic development, mixed development of residential, business, art venues, public transportation, and commercial. Stadiums or only an added notiarity, like being able to wear Versace or Hugo Boss while looking good.
Actually as a Dallas resident this is a rather bitter sweet hearing of the issues that are starting to rise around Arlington's plan. First off several Arlington council members resigned right after the voters voted for the stadium. (red flag one) Second big red flag is that now more of planning is getting under way they are changing the scope of the work. Result instead of adding to the context of Arlington, Jerry Jones in cooperation with the City of Arlington are now asking to buy out people's homes/property for PARKING LOTS. Wow...thats a win for the city of Arlington. Taking away taxable property making it into public parking lots that will be financed by the city making the property NON-TAXABLE producing no revenue. In the Cowboys agreement, the Cowboys get the profit it will charge from the parking for a football game and the city gets a small percentage of the concessions (another loss for Arlington).
For Dallas this is a win-win situation. The Dallas Cowboys get a new stadium that Dallas tax payers do not have to subsidize (keeping the Cowboys in DFW and not relocating to Shreveport as JJ hinted a year or two ago), and meanwhile Uptown/downtown Dallas gain from most the tourist as well as downtown Ft. Worth ( you just can not break decades of tradition with hopes of new development) If you looked at the Cowboys and how they tried to sell the stadium to Dallas voters, they were trying to market a way to get the voters to buy into the plan. First, JJ presented only the stadium on the banks of the Trinty River with no development (I'm referencing a friend who worked on the project first hand back then), then the Cowboys decided to add "Cowboy Park" or whatever it was called. They deemed the park the "new urban or downtown Dallas, (hmmmm sounded vagely familar to Victory's current plans). Then as the Cowboys began talking more and more they started seeing that having the tax payers foot the bill for a billion dollar development was not feasible they then looked at the Cotton Bowl site. A historic site with a multitude of issues. This would have been ideal, but not at the expensive of selling Dallas's soul to JJ. He wanted TOO much. He wanted the taxpayers to pay for more then half of the cost of the stadium that would have payed for all of the Redskins new stadium and infrastructure. So that failed when Dallas County, Dallas City Council, consultants for changing of state legislation weighed in, and other numerous people weighed in saying this was not a good deal and needed to negogiate further. The fact is no one wins when it comes to JJ other then JJ.
It is proven that museums and art galleries bring in more revenue and vistors to a city then a half billion dollar stadium. Why because they are open year round, and change the scene with rotating exhibits and so forth. Football stadiums do not, they bare mostly a tax burden or others deem a "white elephant" unless built in an urban context. They have a set some 13 games a year. People drive in and drive out after the games. Building fields of parking lot around a stadium and taking away taxable property for a public financed building that can not be taxed does not add up to dollar signs but hoping "they will come." And don't think that if the Cowboys landed the tax payers approval for the Cotton Bowl that they would not be using the same current tactics for land acquition for their parking, only much more would be at stake. Prized historic building (not that they are much currently) surrounding Fair Park.
I for one am very proud of the fact that people on Dallas location fight did not negogiate any longer then they had too before Jerry Jones moved on. They did the right thing not sacarficing tax payers money in an already tight tax base. Keep in mind a few years back JJ actually went to the Dallas taxpayers and started marketing his idea that the tax for Dart be diverted to finance his new stadium. This was bout 5 years ago.
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"Victory Park's $450M Second Phase Rapidly Filling Up
By Connie Gore
Last updated: May 11, 2005 08:17am
For more retail coverage, click GlobeSt.com/RETAIL.
DALLAS-With the vision for "Victory" on a fast-track to reality, Hillwood yesterday debuted the retail dance card for its $450-million second phase and teased to another round of headline news in 90 days for a $450-million third phase........
......The six-building second phase, which delivers in May 2006, consists of 600 residential units, 175,000 sf of retail, 120,000 sf of office space, a one-acre park and the W. The three-building third phase will have another 280 apartments and condos, 135,000 sf of retail and 600,000 sf of office space. Hillwood has amassed a powerful roster of partners, including Gatehouse Capital and Hicks Holdings LLC, the teammates for the W, the catalyst for getting the seven-year plan off the drawing board."
Link to story
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Victory is taking shape. Hillwood just gave a big press release with all the projections under construction. Currently phase II with the W Hotel and Mayfields developments are under construcion. Completion of phase II and phase III is set for 2006. W will open next year. Here is a link to the fly threw:
http://www.wfaa.com/perl/common/video/wmPl...toryanim_am.wmv
Here is a link to channel 8's video clip
http://www.wfaa.com/perl/common/video/wmPl...0victory_am.wmv
and here is a link to the development website
www.victorypark.com
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7-Eleven to move its Headquarters to the Arts District
Here's the link:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw....1f7b4ad0b.html
7-Eleven will move its location from Cityplace to a new mixed use development in the Arts District of Downtown Dallas. The new development will be at the end of Flora street (which serves or will serve as the "spine" of the Arts District). Flora will connect Dallas Musuem of Art with the new development. Expect to see a lot of construction in the Arts District starting late summer up to 2009. Click on the link above to go to the Dallas Morning News Article.
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