strickn Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Silicon Valley has half the skyline of Fort Worth, too, and by your "more is better" logic, what sense could that make? -- but most tech firms need to communicate more than hierarchical organizations. Being twenty-five floors apart doesn't lead to collaboration. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasnoDTX Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 More news on AMLI Tower: 46 story, 562ft. Quote Amli's Taylor Bowen said construction on the high-rise will start this summer. The Field Street tower would be the tallest downtown building started since construction began in 2010 on the 42-story Museum Tower condominium building in the Arts District. http://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/03/20/developer-buys-site-new-downtown-dallas-skyscraper 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Construction has begun on The Epic. From my Photobucket: Via UCR: Quote Available Q3 2018 Kimpton Hotel (approx. 165 keys), multifamily (approx. 300 units), and 250,000 SF office space above retail 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Dallas' Old Parkland campus is getting another building DFW Real Estate Quote Crow Holdings wants to add a final office building at the far north end of the project. The 96,000-square-foot office development will be between Maple Avenue and Dallas North Tollway, just south of Knight Street, according to plans filed with the city. The project will include six floors on top of a parking garage. "We are planning to begin excavation next month and we should be ready for the first tenants in the first quarter of 2019," said Crow Holdings' Cathy Golden. "We are 100 percent occupied — a good place to be when you are starting a new building." 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasnoDTX Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 And now some more info on the other "40 story" tower. The Flora Street Lofts. This new literature is now stating the tower could be 41 stories. According to the article it should begin this fall. Awaiting Tax credit approval this summer. Yes this will have Section 8 housing for starving artists. One wonders how you prove youre an "artist" to receive this tax credit. Haha. Whatever. She's gonna look good. Quote Today, City Council will move the project up to the goal line when it approves resolutions in favor of tax-exempt bond financing of $15 million and a state 4 percent tax credit of about $7.58 million. The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs must approve the tax credit, which will likely occur this summer. The idea of bringing truly affordable housing to the tony Dallas Arts District was always going to be challenging. It may never have happened had it not been for a commercial developer’s willingness to literally dovetail one tower into another. In the fall of 2015, the Urban Design Peer Review Panel revisited a project it had first seen March 26, 2013: “The project scope has been revised to include a residential tower component.” http://dallas.towers.net/2017/03/22/creative-housing-for-creatives-flora-street-lofts/ 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 1 hour ago, JasnoDTX said: And now some more info on the other "40 story" tower. Proforma states construction schedule is to be from July 1, 2017 to March 1, 2019. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 PwC Tower @ Park District: Facebook 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Pacific Plaza Park is approved. Construction should commence early 2018. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Redo ramping up on downtown Dallas' landmark Adolphus Tower Quote "We've put in all new mechanical systems in the building," Hoque said. Quote He said the exterior of the 27-story 62-year-old office tower will be "all lit up." Quote On the third floor, Hoque is building a new conference center. And below street level in the basement, construction is starting on a 7,500-square-foot shared office environment that will be geared toward start up companies and incubator business space. Quote Hoque - whose DRG Concepts restaurant company owns the Fish Market and Chop House Burger restaurants across the street - plans to turn a former bank branch space in the bottom of the Adolphus Tower into another eatery or retail space. There will also be retail along Akard. Quote When the $7.5 million project opened in 1955 it was touted as "the most modern office building in the Southwest." Project Location 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Love Field-area project would replace '60s apartments that copied Olde England Quote Apartment builder Trinsic Residential Group has plans to build a large rental community on West Northwest Highway just north of the airport. The apartments at 3932 W. Northwest Highway would occupy about 10 acres, the site of a rental project that's more than a half-century old. Trinsic has submitted filings with the city to redevelop the Gates of Bluffview apartments just east of Lemmon Avenue. Project Location 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 What a way to finish this week! Round skyscraper by famed architect would remake Dallas' skyline Quote Developer H. Ross Perot Jr.'s Hillwood real estate firm has hired London-based Foster + Partners to create concept plans for an almost 70-story tower on the north edge of downtown. The soaring glass and steel high-rise would sit just across Woodall Rodgers Freeway from the Perot Museum. Artist's renderings of the building on display in the Perot family's new Dallas headquarters show a round building with three atrium areas and a lighted top. Quote "We have a million square foot tower planned," said Perot. "We have the rough renderings and this is what we want to build." "With Sir Norman Foster as the architect, it's fabulous." Project Location 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Simply elegant. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasnoDTX Posted March 25, 2017 Author Share Posted March 25, 2017 (edited) Finally Perot sounds excited like he's got some fire now!! Its about time. Truthfully I was very dissappointed in the first render. That render looked boring as heck, almost generic. After looking at bold skyscrapers around the globe (especially my favorites in Moscow) I wondered why we couldn't have another bold design to continue the theme started in the 80s. This design is gorgeous and has a London/Moscow/international type of feel. Nothing looks like it in Dallas. This should easily hit 900ft+. Even if its just 1,000,000sqft. Just look at 432 Park Ave in NYC. That sucker is like over 1300ft yet skinny(412ksqft). We can finally get our deserved supertall with a smaller footprint. Since the spot has no height limit we need to go hard or go home. Glad Perot wanted something more aggressive. No wonder he has been so quiet over the last 3+ years. I hope its taller than LAs US Bank Tower (1018ft). 1025ft would be a perfect height IMO but if they can go taller.....wow! (There's not an emoticon on site that can express my thoughts right now)!!! Edited March 25, 2017 by JasnoDTX 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 It is ugly like he went China to get the design. Looks like the Museum Tower. Dallas deserve better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 This photo shows the slow enclosure of Klyde Warren Park. Park District can be seen on right with 1900 Pearl far right. Flora Street Lofts will occupy the surface lot with construction commencing July 1. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 (edited) Park District: Urban Dallas Urban Dallas Edited March 27, 2017 by Sic'EmBears 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 On 3/24/2017 at 3:46 PM, Sic'EmBears said: What a way to finish this week! Round skyscraper by famed architect would remake Dallas' skyline Project Location 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 China coming to Dallas very nice. Is there a tenant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strickn Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Funny you should ask! I think I heard yo' mama was.* * ( so fat she preleased a super-tall) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasnoDTX Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 1 hour ago, nativehoustonion said: China coming to Dallas very nice. Is there a tenant? Just Jackie Chan. All 69 floors. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 How nice! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 The Union: The Union 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sic'EmBears Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) Per the previous article, I was worried the new building was to sit atop an above-ground garage. What a relief. First look: Next phase of Old Parkland campus will add an office building Quote The 90,000-square-foot classical "Jeffersonian style" building was designed by Dallas' Beck Group and United Kingdom architect Craig Hamilton. The six-story office project at Maple Avenue, Dallas North Tollway and Knight Street will have three levels of underground parking. Plans also call for "a thematic sculpture in the front plaza" of the new building, according to Crow Holdings. Quote "We already have commitments for approximately 40 percent of our new office space and are delighted the market continues to support our development." Project Location Edited March 29, 2017 by Sic'EmBears 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shasta Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 On 3/27/2017 at 9:11 AM, H-Town Man said: A bit harsh! It's better than 1000 Main or Calpine Center, which are squattier, more budget-minded towers with a lower degree of finish and detail. I would compare it more with some of the early Houston Center towers, 1100 Louisiana, or Tenneco. Tenneco might be the best comparison since it was also designed by a respected national firm in the business of making crisp, understated towers that stand the test of time. Looks like Dallas might be getting a Norman Foster Skyscraper... http://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/03/24/round-skyscraper-famed-architect-remake-dallas-skyline 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtNsf Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 4 hours ago, shasta said: Looks like Dallas might be getting a Norman Foster Skyscraper... http://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/03/24/round-skyscraper-famed-architect-remake-dallas-skyline sorry, not a bit impressed with the architect. designs seem so outdated and downright ugly compared to even the worst eyesores in Houston thus far. I think the skyscrapers we have that have been around since a few decades ago and more recently blow anything away in the dallas "skyline". IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I like it... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I love that thing. If it was built here we'd all be going bonkers. Imma gonna call it the E-Cig. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablog Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I tried hard to hate it, but I can't. Good job Dallas 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtNsf Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 yuk and more yuk (puke sounds...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reporter Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 reminds me of that ugly giant tacky cigarette in l.a. on smoked ice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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