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Video of the lighting display on Drever Tower

[IMG]New LIghting Drever by g bud, on Flickr[/IMG]

[Austin55]

Rumors of another residential highrise near Panther Island/Downtown Fort Worth.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/lo...186775568.html

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Apartment project kicks off at downtown Dallas' Farmers Market



Project Location

Lynd Development Partners is building the more than 200-unit apartment project at Harwood and Cadiz streets in downtown Dallas.

The new apartment development is just across the street from the Farmers Market. Lynd filed building permits with the city for a $33.5 million development.

Merriman Anderson Architects designed the project.

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Renderings for Downtown's South Asian Museum:

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[Roman_Patrick]

Gorgeous museum, will definitely change the area of the location.
Is the residential tower still on the works? I sure hope so.

[eburress]

Originally Posted by Roman_Patrick

Gorgeous museum, will definitely change the area of the location.
Is the residential tower still on the works? I sure hope so.

I'm sure the residential tower is still in the works, since the museum folks are depending on its proceeds acting as an ongoing endowment for the museum.

[houston19514]

Originally Posted by Roman_Patrick

Gorgeous museum, will definitely change the area of the location.
Is the residential tower still on the works? I sure hope so.

The more important question might be whether the museum is seriously still in the works.

[Sic'EmBears]

Downtown Dallas finally scores the grocery store it has long craved



Project Location - Trammell Crow Center

Project Location - Mercantile Place

Downtown Dallas finally nets the grocery store it has long craved, and it's a humdinger: Austin-based Royal Blue Grocery will open not one but two stores, both inside the Central Business District.

For downtown dwellers, that means a short jaunt to get house-made quinoa oatmeal topped with Texas pecans, dried cranberries, brown sugar, and cinnamon. It means sandwiches, soups, salads, and produce. It means toilet paper in a pinch. It also means coffee by acclaimed Stumptown Coffee from Portland, Oregon.

The two stores will be located at the Mercantile Place building at 1704 Main St., and at the Trammell Crow Center at 2001 Ross Ave., which is currently undergoing a multimillion-dollar makeover.

The chain hopes to do for downtown Dallas what it has done for downtown Austin: add density, vitality, street amenities, and convenience for workers and residents downtown.

In a release, Royal Blue Grocery proprietor Zac Porter says they're excited about Trammell Crow Center, which he calls "an iconic building undergoing a beautiful remodel."

"Our patio overlooking the DMA is going to be really special," he says. "As we expand into downtown Dallas, we think this location will be great for the building and our Ross Avenue, Arts District, and Klyde Warren Park neighbors."

DMN

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Updated plans reveal office quad at Heritage Creekside



Project Location

The plans also clear the way for developers to begin construction on the first office tower.

The developers’ vision for the western portion show an active business park anchored by a quadrangle of office buildings that surround an open square of food trucks, restaurants and green space, reminiscent of Dallas’s Klyde Warren Park.

Construction crews are actively building the mix of residential housing, stores and restaurants that will make up the eastern side of the property.

“There’s a significant improvement to the employment center,” Day said to council members in October, comparing the new layout to the developer’s initial plans. “Before, the employment center was very much closed off and not accessible, and it was intended to be a campus-type environment. This really brings people into the employment center, which I think is a major improvement.”

A day after the city approved the new plans, the developers announced construction on the western employment center will soon begin in earnest as crews begin to erect a 12-story office tower at Heritage Creekside. The building, scheduled for completion by the end of 2019, will include 343,800 square feet of Class A office space, according to a statement from the developers.

Developers have increased the number of planned single-family lots to 252, up from 173 in an earlier plan.

“We made a commitment to the adjacent homeowners that we would have single-family adjacent to the neighborhood immediately to the north,” Flaherty said.

The amount of open space in the plan rose to 10.1 acres, up from 7.6 acres in its previous iteration.

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Dallas downtown to get a new 10-story high-rise with a Tom Thumb



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Developers have filed building permits for a new apartment tower on downtown Dallas' near east side.

The 10-story high-rise is planned to include a grocery store on the ground floor at Live Oak and Texas streets. The mixed-use project is part of Greystar Real Estate Partners City Lights development and has been in the works since last year.

Building permits show the project will be a 370-unit apartment development with almost 850,000 square feet. So far the permits are valued at almost $100 million.

"We have been working hand in hand with them on the development," said Malouf Interests' Steve Gregory. "It will be first quarter 2020 when we opens [sic] the grocery store."

Greystar and Malouf are also working on a third phase.

"We've got three acres on North Central Expressway we will start looking at after we get this one out of the ground."

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High-rise mixed-use project will replace old Sears store at Dallas' Valley View



Project Location

A New York real estate investor is teaming up with Dallas developer KDC to build up to 1 million square feet of office space as part of a mixed-use project in Far North Dallas.

The planned development by Seritage Growth Properties and KDC is part of the 430-acre Dallas Midtown district along the north side of LBJ Freeway.

The 23-acre development will include two office towers, retail, a cinema and more on the site of the closed Sears store at the old Valley View mall.

"This project will stand out as an iconic landmark while still blending into the surrounding community, creating strong connectivity and pedestrian access in a sustainable environment."

KDC is North Texas' busiest office developer, building projects including Toyota's new North American headquarters in Plano and the huge State Farm Insurance regional campus in Richardson.

The commercial property company has been working for several months on a plan for site of the old Sears store, which shut down earlier this year.

Early plans call for a complex of shops, restaurants, apartments and a hotel as part of the high-rise development.

A park sits in the middle of the complex, which was designed by Omniplan and 505 Design.

"The Preston Road frontage begs for some retail," Guthrey said. "We are looking at two- to three-story urban retail, and there is multifamily planned to the west and midrise apartments or condos.

"It is a very mixed-use plan."

"Seritage's plans are going to be a transformational project that converts the Sears site into a highly productive office and first-class retail, dining and entertainment destination," James Bry, Seritage executive vice president of development and construction, said in a statement.

Developer Hillwood Urban and EF Properties LC are working on plans for office buildings and mixed-use construction on the site of the old Macy's department store at Valley View.

And Beck Ventures is planning additional development on the rest of the mall site.

Other developers are building apartments, hotels and retail space on surrounding properties east of the Galleria.

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Old strip buildings in Deep Ellum will give way to high-rise with apartments and shopping



Project Location

Construction will start in the next few weeks on an urban style mixed-use development in Dallas' popular Deep Ellum district.

The 7-story development will bring apartments and streetfront retail to an area that's seeing widespread new development.

"I think there is an opportunity to bring some basic neighborhood services there," Blackwell said.

Designed by Baltimore architect Hord Coplan Macht, the building mimics early 20th century industrial and commercial properties. Blackwell said the project — called Novel Deep Ellum — "borrowed from Deep Ellum's Continental Gin buildings and Henry Ford's Model T plant a block away.

"It's appropriately gritty for Deep Ellum."

The new complex will include 230 apartments and 10,000 square feet of retail space. Access to the interior of the development would be through an open area in the middle of the block, providing easy access to the rest of the shops.

Architect's project w/ similar façade:


AIA Baltimore

[R1070]

Good to see more residential going in!

[Thymant]

This should be a nice addition for Deep Ellum!

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Lakeside Professional Office, a Class-A office building in Flower Mound, breaks ground in December



Project Location

A Class-A office building, the Lakeside Professional Office, will break ground in Lakeside DFW this month at the southeast corner of FM 2499 and Lakeside Parkway in Flower Mound.

The two-story, 21,750-square foot building is expected to be complete in the summer, according to Jimmy Archie, managing partner of Realty Capital Management, developer of the project.

Archie said the office building’s proximity to DFW Airport and major thoroughfares, such as FM 2499, state highways 121 and 114, and Interstate 635 will help draw people in.

“The location will give Flower Mound executives a way to cut their commutes while offering their employees a centralized DFW location,” Archie said.

[Roman_Patrick]

Happy Friday!
Last night the AT&T tower in downtown Dallas celebrated the new renovations with its new light display! The new lights are amazing. I am a fan!
I took these photos last night.
Enjoy!

[IMG]IMG_0695 by Roman Reyna, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]IMG_0697 by Roman Reyna, on Flickr[/IMG]

[eburress]

Thanks for posting...I also like the look of the new lighting!

[Sic'EmBears]

^ Glad the white light was added. Balances out the colored LED displays.

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More information on Frisco's "green" neighborhood:

High-end green home community planned for Frisco would cover roofs with native plants



Project Location

An international builder is working on plans for a 55-acre modern home community where the houses would have roofs covered in native plants. The new neighborhood on Independence Parkway near Rolater Road would also include heavily landscaped public areas and a bridge across a wooded creek.

"The proposed development offers a unique housing product that is the first of its kind in the city of Frisco and the region," Frisco city planners said in their review of the development.

"The developer has been building these homes overseas for years, and they have been very successful," said Jim Knight, a senior principal with design and engineering firm Stantec. "A number of people already want to buy them."

The houses would be built with small front and rear yards and curved roofs that extend near ground level.

"We are working with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and they have come up with a planting, maintenance and monitoring plan for this entire project," Knight told the Frisco planning commission. "We know that the seasonal plants will rotate through as we go from spring to summer to winter to fall.

"We believe we have a very unique, sustainable, pedestrian-friendly community."

The development will have about 122 houses ranging in size from more than 4,000 to 5,000 square feet. "Your are looking at prices of $900,000 and up," Knight said.

Almost 20 percent of the land would be open space, with areas set aside for walking trails and a water feature and plaza area.

"The property is absolutely gorgeous," Knight said. "Rowlett Creek runs through it, and there are three ponds.

"Only 23 of the 55 acres will be built upon."

[EastSideHBG]

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Very cool!