Dallas

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Here are some pictures to showcase the best of Dallas: one of my favorite cities. These will include the downtown area as well as the metro from various sources such a as Google, Bing, and Skyscraper City. I will include details and captions for some and will post current pictures and proposed/future projects.

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Here are some random projects:

Museum Tower- 42 story 562 ft. tall... has already been completed but here are some when it was under construction








Parkland Hospital




Hall Arts Tower

The winner of the extremely exciting Re:Vision Dallas competition to create a completely sustainable community on a run-down city block in downtown Dallas was just announced yesterday – and it’s incredible! “Fowarding Dallas,” submitted by Portuguese-based architectural firms Atelier Data and Moov took the grand prize with their hillside-inspired design that consists of a series of peaks and valleys, runs completely on renewable energy, is covered in vegetation, and can even grow its own food. The coolest part? This mixed-use eco-community won’t just a concept – it will actually be constructed in Dallas in 2011!

Billingsley Project

Frisco Square mixed-square project.... $60m project

Viridian Town Center... massive 2 billion dollar new urbanism development that creates a 1.5 billion dollar tax base and I will give it's own post here shortly

Victory Park project---23 story office tower


That didn't even scratch the surface though. Quite a bit of those have already been completed and will post personal and internet found pics of them!

To keep more organized, I will post each project in its own post and post a collage of pictures in each post.

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From jonathaninATX on Skyscraper City

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Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

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Another picture of the Parkland Hospital back in 2012



and a newer updated(isn) ones from this last summer

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A few Uptown Renderings







and DFW Dart Expansion Renderings



BTW, I'm not spending too much time describing these as they are over a year old. I just want to give the feel for how massive and large scale some of these projects are and how much new urbanism and mass transit is beginning to show up in Dallas. Here is a link to most of these projects I've listed so far: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...1457409&page=5

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Massive State Farm complex in Richardson which will grow into 8,000 workers!

Rendering


Photo from this past summer:


More about it: http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/20...-workers.html/

''State Farm Insurance’s new regional office campus in Richardson will allow the Illinois-based company to boost its Dallas-area employment to 8,000 workers.

The buildings open in early 2015.

The mammoth commercial real estate development – already under construction at State Highway 190 and Plano Road – will contain three office towers plus parking garages.

The tallest of the buildings in the 1.5 million square-foot office project will be 21 stories tall.

The insurance company development tops all other such corporate projects in North Texas.

“It’s the largest project that has been built in square footage ever as it relates to a corporate facility,” Steve Van Amburgh, CEO of project developer KDC, said at the formal groundbreaking on Thursday morning. “The mission given by the team at State Farm was to create a really great workplace.

“They want us to develop a very world class facility.”

With an estimated price take of more than a half billion dollars, the project was too large for one lender to fund.

“We’ve got six banks that are participating to finance this great project,” Van Amburgh said.

JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, Bank of Texas, Capital One Bank and Regions Bank joined forces to provide construction loans for the development.

State Farm Insurance officials started working with KDC and the City of Richardson in June 2012 to lay the groundwork for the big development.

Construction of the project actually started in April.

As State Farm senior vice president Mary Crego talked, construction equipment rumbled just yards behind her.

“It’s a sign of the aggressive scheduled that we have that I don’t even mind,” Crego said. “This new facility will help us better serve the insurance and finance services needs of our customers across North America.”

The State Farm buildings are just part of an even larger, 186-acre development KDC is building''

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New 20 Story Building in McKinney

Construction set to begin in early 2014




http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/20...n-dallas.html/

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3 Billion Dollar Midtown Redevelopment

Posted back during March of 2013

Beck Ventures has released specific details on its plans for Dallas Midtown, its massive $3 billion redevelopment of the Valley View Mall area. The complete reinvention will ultimately entail millions of square feet of office, retail, hotel, and residential space. Plans also call for gondolas that will connect various sectors of the project, a trolley system, and a glass-roofed, open-air retail center; Bellagio-style fountains, parks, and a hike-and-bike trail that connects to White Rock Lake. (See videos and renderings below.)

Dallas Midtown is a 430-acre district bounded by Interstate 635 to the south, Preston Road to the east, Alpha Road to the north, and the Dallas North Tollway to the west. Last fall, the City of Dallas provided $250,000 to help fund a redevelopment study by Omniplan, in partnership with the North Dallas Chamber. Beck Ventures owns about 104 acres within the district, including Valley View Mall at Interstate 635 and Preston Road. It’s led by Scott Beck, president, and his father Jeff and brother Jarrod, both managing partners. Jeff Beck was the driving force behind the development of Trophy Club; he acquired 1,200 acres there in 1994.

Scott Beck said Dallas Midtown is “significantly bigger” than the Beck family.

“If Trophy Club was a legacy project, this one is a mega, generational legacy project,” he said. “This one is special. We understand it and are personally connected to it. It’s in our back yard.”

Beck and his siblings and parents all live in homes that are within close proximity to the district.

Beck Ventures acquired Valley View Mall last year. It will get under way with the first phase of its redevelopment project during the first quarter of 2014. It involves relocating JCPenney to a new freestanding building, and Sears to a second freestanding facility.

The mall’s third anchor, AMC Theatres, will stay in its existing location, but the rest of the mall will make way for open-air retail capped by a glass roof (similar to the atrium at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine). The movie complex will get a $10 million enhancement with about one-third of the theaters being traditional, one-third being dine-in, and one-third offering the new 4D experience with rumble seats other special effects.

The center of the complex will offer a live-work-play environment, with taller office, hotel, and residential buildings planned for the outer loop. Designs have a 20-acre park, about four times the size of Klyde Warren Park in downtown Dallas, anchoring the center.

The Becks selected architect Michael Twichell to design their master plan. He was lead designer for the Shops at Legacy in Plano and much of Trophy Club.








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Hey, I'm just posting about cool things in Dallas. I think bchris ought to post about Charlotte. We already have Nebraska city forums and SA as well as Cleveland. This is just in response to the recent Dallas bashing lol ;P

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A shot of Uptown

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Elm Place Rendering

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Cityscape Apts at Victory Park

August 13th

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Canada-based developer Great Gulf is holding a debut party tonight for the new condo tower the company plans to build in Dallas’ Turtle Creek neighborhood.

Great Gulf has been working on the project for several years on a vacant tract at Turtle Creek Boulevard and Fairmount Street.

GGH Development LLC – an affiliate of Great Gulf – plans to build the 24-story tower on the 1.4 acre site.

The project will have around 60 high-end residential units.

Great Gulf representatives and Dallas residential sales firm Briggs-Freeman Sotheby’s International are holding an event at the Winspear opera house to show prospective buyers the project.

Briggs-Freeman is the same firm that’s marketing the Museum Tower in downtown Dallas.

Hariri Pontarini Architects of Toronto has been working on the development. Early design schemes show a modern building with large balconies.

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Of course there are ghetto areas around its core, just OKC and virtually every other city in the world... but yeah, downtown Dallas sure is a travesty. Just wait as there are tons of more pictures and project updates coming.

There a some more pictures in here I left out, probably around 10-20... worth checking out! http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1175341

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Fair Park













From TexasStar http://forum.dallasmetropolis.com/sh...llas-Fair-Park

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Skyline Shots

Here is the big image: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2583/...5872df32_o.jpg


Larger image: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3534/...42a18a49_o.jpg


Larger image: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2653/...463863a8_o.jpg


Larger image can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninjatu...n/photostream/

From Justin Terveen ..... Very talented and amazing photographer! http://forum.dallasmetropolis.com/sh...from-Oak-Cliff

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Another Justin Terveen photo . . . I really like photos with no watermarks on them. Makes them a million times more enjoyable.

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This is a cool thread of tree lined streets in Dtown Dallas's tree-lined streets

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Just for the record, here is the link to their OKC Streetcar thread in case anyone wants to see it or post on it: Oklahoma City annouces Streetcar plan

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The Museum Tower or the Victory Place project from your first post are both more in line with what I was hoping to see on the Stage Center lot. Especially the Museum Tower, I think that building is gorgeous.

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The Museum Tower is beautiful during the day, but at night it sucks. They really failed with the lighting.

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Also don't be surprised if a super tall is announced in Dallas in the coming years or perhaps sooner.