"Urban Living Laboratory", a 1.1 million sf, $128 million dollar mixed use, LEED certified,
green and sustainable "live, work, play" urban development to be built in North Dallas
11-18-11
This is an incredibly exciting and very unique mixed use project getting ready to break ground in Dallas in January 2012.
This urban development project, like no other, is being underwritten by more than 20 Fortune 500 corporations who will directly participate in and benefit from the leading edge research in sustainable living that will be the hallmark and legacy of this unique development as there is "nothing like it in the world" today.
Texas A&M University System is spearheading the cutting edge research in concert with participation by other leading universities from around the world along with the cadre of Fortune 500's. A Dallas-area development company, Realty Appreciation Ltd., is the developer for the project with the first of five phases breaking ground in January 2012.
Here are several articles from various sources that detail this unique mixed use development for Dallas:
http://dallas.tamu.edu/news/plans-fo...las-announced/
http://www.archinnovations.com/news/...ng-laboratory/
http://www.constructiondigital.com/s...y-dallas-texas
http://urbanlivinglaboratory.com/images/reuters1.pdf
http://www.urbanlivinglaboratory.com/
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Dallas mixed-use ‘Laboratory’ advances ...
Phase One Rendering: 310-unit, 10-building apartment complex and club house.
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Later project phase: office building rendering.
URBAN LIVING LABORATORY: Plans include more than 700 apartments, 150,00 square feet of office space, 105,000 square feet of retail space, and two hotels with 250 rooms total.
Candace Carlisle, Dallas Business Journal, Staff Writer
Date: Friday, November 18, 2011
Realty Appreciation, the developer of the $128 million, 1.1-million-square-foot Urban Living Laboratory, plans to submit building documents to the City of Dallas on Friday for the development’s first phase.
The $28 million initial phase of the five-phase Urban Living Laboratory includes a 310-unit, 10-building apartment complex and club house.
If approved, subcontractors could see requests-for-proposals such as for earthwork, site utilities, concrete, masonry, framing, roofing, plumbing, electrical, heating and air conditioning, dry wall and painting projects.
Bidding could begin mid-December, after permits are issued from the City of Dallas.
Construction could start as early as January. It is scheduled to ...
Full article:
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/pr...mixed-use.html
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