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[NThomas]

UT Co-op opening store in Dallas
May 12, 2009
Dallas Business Journal
Full Article

University Co-op, the official retailer of University of Texas apparel and merchandise, is opening its third store outside of Austin, this time in Dallas.

The Co-op has signed a lease for 6,000 square feet at The Lincoln Park Shopping Center on the southwest corner of Northwest Highway and Central Expressway in Dallas, just across from Northpark Mall. The store is slated to open in August.

Officials with the Co-op say the Dallas store was a natural progression after the opening of the first two stores outside of Austin in San Antonio and Houston. The response to those two locations has been overwhelming, they say.

The Dallas store will carry mens', womens' and childrens' Longhorn clothing and souvenirs, including many items exclusive to the Co-op.

“This is a great location for us to present our product to the fans of the Longhorns," said George Mitchell, president and CEO of the University Co-op. “The Co-op has a mission to service the needs of the students, staff, faculty and alumni of the university. This Dallas area store will allow us to continue to meet the needs for all Texas Exes and the many fans of the Longhorns in the North Texas area.”

[DFW LUV]

Texas House OKs UNT law school in Dallas

12:31 PM CDT on Wednesday, May 13, 2009
By EMILY RAMSHAW / The Dallas Morning News
eramshaw@dallasnews.com

AUSTIN – Dallas will be home to the state's next public law school under a bill that won tentative House approval today.

Budget woes mean funding for the law school remains uncertain, at least for the next two years. At that point, officials could come back to the Legislature again for funding, or seek tuition revenue bonds instead. But for now, the budget the Legislature is poised to approve does not include the $40 million needed to establish the school.

Still, North Texas lawmakers said simply getting approval for the University of North Texas Law School – which already passed the Senate – is a great achievement. This is the third legislative session in which they've pushed for it.

“We’ve got it to the two-yard line now,” said Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas. “It’s a good example for the state and for the region, that if you want to add a new institution of higher education, it’s good to have strong community input.”

Full article:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....20a3434e.html

[maconahey]

New stainless steel sculptures called "The Traveling Man" to be installed in Deep Ellum. Should be finished by the end of August.







more: http://deepellumgateway.com/


Dallas Museum of Nature and Science - scheduled to start later this year in Victory Park.

Barnett Shale Gallery


Paleontology Hall


Science of Sports


Engineering Innovations Lab


Being Alive, Being Human


http://www.natureandscience.org/expansion/default.asp

[TexasStar]

Dallas Cowboys Stadium [May 27, 2009]

[TexasStar]

UPDATES: 07-18-2009

1717 McKinney Avenue







Saint Ann Court

[Thymant]

How tall is 1717 Mckinney supposed to be?

[DFW]

Originally Posted by Thymant

How tall is 1717 Mckinney supposed to be?

The office tower is 19-stories and topped out and the apartment tower is 26-stories and from this pic it looks like it has about 4 more floors to go.

[DFW]

Texas Alps in Grapevine

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Indoor ski slope planned for Grapevine

08:14 AM CDT on Wednesday, July 22, 2009

WFAA-TV Staff


GRAPEVINE — How would like to go snow skiing in North Texas in the middle of the summer?

Snow/Sport Entertainment Ltd. planned to announce Wednesday a new project called Texas Alps in Grapevine.

Texas Alps is described as a 590-foot indoor ski slope, part of a 250,000 square foot facility proposed near the Grapevine Mills shopping mall north of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. In addition to the ski slope, Texas Alps would also have an indoor ice climbing wall and luge track.

The $70 million project will take about two years to complete and is said to be the first phase of World Villages of Grapevine, billed as a "one-of-a-kind entertainment venue."

There are indoor ski facilities in a number of foreign countries, including France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. Wikipedia reports that at least three are currently under construction in the U.S. in Las Vegas, New Jersey and in North Carolina.

This isn't the first time a North Texas indoor ski facility has been announced. Two years ago, the Bearfire Resort revealed plans for a year-round ski park in Fort Worth with a planned opening in 2009. The status of that project is unknown.

[Thymant]

Any new updates?

[TexasPlaya]

I believe Houston had one of these indoor ski slopes announced too but the economy happened and haven't a word about it. Good luck to Grapevine.

[MarkyPants2023]

Plans for the new Thom Mayne-designed Perot Museum of Nature & Science






http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...m.432f49b.html

[Mikle]

I like the design. Thanks for posting!

[MarkyPants2023]

Wow, DFWUF is completely stealing ALL of the Dallas attention from this site.

Anyway, the $384M AT&T Performing Arts Center opened this week with all kinds of performances and shows. Its really quite impressive.

http://www.attpac.org/

[JoninATX]

Ah... the AT&T Performing Art Center is truly a master peice and will serve Dallas in the long run for having such an ambitious project.

[MarkyPants2023]

Some Articles

http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?...de=3150975&c=0

http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/n...09537.article#

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/ar...llas.html?_r=1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesi...ra-house-opens

There are waaaay too many to post here. If you want to read more, google news the at&t PAC. Time, Newsweek, obviously the DMN, and just about every other regional paper has covered it thoroughly.


And the one piece still under construction...



A few pics too...
chandelier of the winspear

inside winspear

Seriously there are waaaay too many to put on here.

http://forum.dallasmetropolis.com/sh...455#post351455

That link has a million articles and photos

[JoninATX]

Dallas Museum of Nature & Science to break ground on Victory Park site today
09:39 PM CST on Tuesday, November 17, 2009
By AVI SELK / The Dallas Morning News
aselk@dallasnews.com
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...re.3a2507f.html

The bird diorama doubles as a minerals gallery – the eagles curtained off, meteorites hauled out in their place.

The collections manager shares office space in the basement with a coyote skeleton, three gigantic crystals and a closet full of jarred snakes.

But the Dallas Museum of Nature & Science's cramped quarters in Fair Park will soon be history.

The museum breaks ground today on its spacious new facility, the Perot Museum of Nature & Science at Victory Park, and CEO Nicole Small, for one, can't wait.

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That should change in early 2013, when the new building is expected to open. With 180,000 square feet, 30-foot ceilings and a 300-seat theater, it will bring the museum's hidden treasures into the light, Small says.

Even before the foundation is dug in Victory Park, the museum's scientists are scurrying to complete one long-awaited project.

Several ottoman-sized vertebrae from a 65 million-year-old alamosaurus have spent the last eight years in storage, ever since they were dug out of Big Bend National Park.

"We didn't put it together because there was no point," said Small.

Reconstructing an alamosaurus skeleton, up to 80 feet long, was simply a no-go in a building where some dinosaurs already stoop for lack of space.

Now the old chunks of bone are being unwrapped from their plaster jackets. When the new site opens, Small said, the behemoth that once grazed the lush forests of Texas will stand in all its glory on the museum's fourth floor.

[eburress]

As AeroD on Dallas Metropolis said, "Ah, development porn."

NThomas posted this on Dallas Metropolis and since the Dallas thread is usually pretty sleepy, I thought I would post it here as well.

Spire
A 11.3 acre master plan development with 128,000 SF of retail, 1,664,700 SF of office and 337 residential units in Downtown Dallas.






2400 San Jacinto
21 story building with two levels of below grade parking and seven levels of above grade parking. 360,570 square feet of office space, 21,320 square feet of retail space at street level. 36 residential flats and two story loft units at 1,300 square feet each.













2500 Ross Ave
19 levels, two below grade parking, six above grade parking. 590,000 square feet of office space, 18,000 square feet of retail space at street level. 6 story atrium connects all levels of parking with the buildings main elevators.

[JoninATX]

This is wonderful news , that area of Dallas needs a development plan like this.

[KevinFromTexas]

http://www.wdgdallas.com/

^They're working on several of those projects.

[TexasPlaya]

Wow, good news for Dallas if it proves true. I can't see them starting on this project anytime soon. Both Houston and DFW's condo market has really taken a hit from the recession and oversupply (especially Dallas). Can't imagine there being a market for this with VP turning out the way it did. But kudos for the vision, especially VP getting the museum because it might give the place much needed help.