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Music project in the works for Frisco's $5 billion mile



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The project, called Music City, would include a more than 1,000-seat indoor theater, a 390-seat outdoor stage and a restaurant.

"The applicant proposes that the facility will host concerts, movie and wine festivals, and theater," Frisco planners say in city filings.

Dallas design firm Hodges Architecture has done preliminary plans for the entertainment project.

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New industrial project on the way in Grand Prairie



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Stream Realty Partners is teaming up with LaSalle Investment Management to build the Parkway Logistics Center, a 271,794-square-foot development at 2911 S. Great Southwest Parkway.

Dallas-Fort Worth already is one of the busiest warehouse building markets in the country.

The project will be ready later this year.

"We are confident that demand will continue to remain robust in this submarket, and in Dallas-Fort Worth overall," Stream Realty's Cannon Green said in a statement.

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Allen mixed-use project breaks ground this week with a dozen-plus buildings lined up



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Dallas' Provident Realty and Glaser Retail are breaking ground on the 73-acre Stacy Green project on the last vacant corner at U.S. Highway 75 and Stacy Road.

The first phase of Stacy Green includes more than a dozen retail and restaurant buildings lining up along U.S. 75 and Stacy Road.

Further phases of the development will include an office building and apartments. A hotel and movie theater are also planned.

And the developers will build a 13-acre greenbelt and park along Cottonwood Creek running through the site.

The first buildings are scheduled to be ready for tenants in 2019.

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Work underway to redo Dallas' landmark Cabana Hotel



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Work is moving ahead to turn save a landmark Dallas hotel.

The 56-year-old former Cabana Motor Hotel on Stemmons Freeway on the edge of downtown Dallas is being restored by Centurion American Development Group.

Centurion American CEO Mehrdad Moayedi said demo work at the 10-story Cabana is wrapping up.

"We are doing the environmental clean up - all the asbestos is out," Moayedi said. "In another week we will be done."

"We are demoing stuff that is not historic," Moayedi said.

Moayedi plans to convert the old hotel to 262 new rooms plus restaurants.

"It will be a combination of suites and 2-story cabana rooms," he said. "We are trying to get our historic plan approved in Austin."

Centurion American also intends to build a 140,000-square-foot apartment tower on top of the old hotel garage.

It was constructed by Las Vegas developer Jay Sarno, who also built Caesar's Palace and Circus Circus.

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Luxury hotel on the way in Dallas' Uptown area near Crescent



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One of the Uptown area's oldest and largest real estate developments plans to add a hotel.

The 20-story hotel tower would be built on a vacant half block at the corner of McKinnon and Moody streets, just west of the Crescent and Tower Residences Ritz-Carlton condo building.

The hotel site is directly across the street from the original Rolex Building - Harwood International's first project in the neighborhood, which opened in 1984.

A Harwood International spokesman said the real estate firm would soon provide details of the timing of its hotel project.

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High-rise apartment construction starts at Dallas Cowboys' Star in Frisco



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The 17-story Star House apartments are being built at Gaylord Parkway and Cowboys Way, across the street from the Ford Center and the Baylor Scott & White Sports Therapy & Research.

The 160-unit luxury apartment tower has been in the works since last year and is being developed by Columbus Realty Partners and Cowboys' owners the Jones family.

Designed by O'Brien Architects the residential high-rise will be built of limestone, metal and glass.

The Star House will be slightly taller than the 16-story Omni Hotel, which is located next door and is currently the tallest building in Frisco.

Atlanta developer Novare Group is building a 25-story apartment tower just north of the Star on the west side of the tollway. Novare's SkyHouse Frisco Station will have 332 rental units.

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$40 million seniors living project coming to McKinney



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The developer has purchased a building site north of the Sam Rayburn Tollway off Stacy at Ridge Road for the project which will have 200 residential units.

Called Hidden Springs, the development will have 132 independent living rental units, 40 assisted living and 28 memory care residential units when it opens in July 2019.

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New Denton County community aims at buyers who want smaller, more affordable new homes



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Called Harvest Townside, the new Denton County neighborhood built by developer Hillwood Communities will feature patio homes starting near 1,500 square feet and priced beginning in the $260,000s.

Hillwood started the 1,200-acre Harvest community in Argyle in 2012.

The project near Interstate 35W is planned for more than 3,000 homes.

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PPG headed to Flower Mound with new distribution center



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The 449,200-square-foot industrial space will be used for be the company's PPG architectural coatings division which operates in the U.S. and Canada.

Construction will start on Tuesday on the 450,000-square-foot building at 1001 Lakeside Parkway in Flower Mound. A remaining 185,000 square feet not rented to PPG will be up for lease.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area has one of the country's fastest growing warehouse and distribution markets, with almost 20 million square feet under construction.

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Hedge fund provides $105 million for new Frisco hotel



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CLG Hedge Fund LLC said it is providing the $105 million construction loan for the new Hyatt Regency Stonebriar under construction at Stonebriar Centre mall in Frisco.

The 18-story, 303-room hotel is being build by Sam Moon Group, which also developed the new Renaissance Hotel at Plano's Legacy West.

Scheduled for completion in early 2020, the Hyatt Regency Stonebriar will connected to the Stonebriar Centre mall. The project also includes an 800-space parking garage and a new Frisco city library.

Brasfield & Gorrie is the contractor and HKS Inc. is the architect.

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DFW Airport to spend $35 million to add 125-room extended-stay hotel


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The DFW International Airport plans to add another Hyatt brand hotel as part of its efforts to improve customer experience at the nation's fourth-largest airport.

The hotel, Hyatt House, will be located next to the Hyatt Place DFW hotel in the Southgate Plaza. Construction will likely start by early spring 2019, and airport aims to open the hotel in early 2020.

The new hotel will feature 125 rooms on the second to sixth floors with 99,000 square feet of total floor area. It will also feature meeting and board rooms, a pool, a fitness center and a restaurant with a bar.

The projected annual tax revenue for the Hyatt House in 2022 is $280,080 to Dallas and Fort Worth and $140,040 to Euless.

Southgate Plaza is a 32-acre mixed-use development which features the airportÂ’s corporate headquarters, an urgent care emergency room, and a Starbucks. A U.S. Postal Service office is under construction.

The airport plans to expand the plaza to include more retail, office and restaurant sites.

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Razor-Sharp Residential Project Headed to Dallas Arts District



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A new mixed-use residential project by developer Matthews Southwest in the Dallas Arts District is planned under the obvious name of 2400 Bryan Street.

The architecture firm submitted its concept to the city’s Urban Design Peer Review office.

Where it faces Bryan Street, Perkins+Will’s drawings show a seven-story building with retail and tenant amenity space on the ground floor, along with a community deck above the seventh floor. Where it faces the highway frontage, the building rises to 15 stories.

The two elevations jump from a 70-foot height to 160 feet.

The gross areas total 244,774 square feet for the residential tower.

There are 230 apartment units planned, half of them reserved for low-income tenants.

Matthews Southwest submitted an application for the project to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, seeking a 9 percent Housing Tax Credit.

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Automotive giant investing $175 million and hiring hundreds in Grand Prairie



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An automotive parts supplier is spending $175 million to expand an industrial building in Grand Prairie that it bought last year.

Flex-N-Gate, a major supplier to General Motors' Arlington vehicle assembly plant, last summer purchased a new 430,186-square-foot industrial building at 2150 Bardin Road in Grand Prairie.

Flex-N-Gate plans to employ 800 people by early 2020.

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Plans for Garland's Firewheel include a hotel in the town center's middle section


The Fairfield Inn is planned for the green parcel behind Old Navy.

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Simon Property Group, which owns Firewheel, said a Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott is planned, but no date was released.

The Fairfield Inn is expected to be built on a parcel that's now a grassy area behind Old Navy and across from Cost Plus World Market on Prairie Clover Drive.

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$1.5 billion Denton County home community starts construction



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The 1,157-acre Pecan Square community is planned for more than 3,000 new homes.

Developer Hillwood Communities has broken ground in the town of Northlake for the first phase of the community, which will have 630 homes.

Hillwood has lined up eight builders who will construct homes priced from the mid-$200,000s to more than $500,000.

The largest portion of the new development is a long-time equestrian center, Woodhill Farm.

Hillwood plans to repurpose some of the horse farm buildings in its new project.

An existing horse arena will be rebuilt as a location for community gatherings and special events.

Pecan Square is on FM 407 near Interstate 35W.

The first houses will be ready in late 2019.

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Developer Hillwood Properties planning huge industrial park west of downtown Dallas

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The almost 100-acre development is planned on Chalk Hill Road south of Interstate 30 and will include multiple warehouse and distribution buildings.

Hillwood has already filed construction permits with the city for more than 2.3 million square feet of industrial buildings along Chalk Hill Road and West D space in the development pipeline.

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Kimpton Hotels to open 2nd Texas Hotel in Deep Ellum:

Landmark Deep Ellum hotel will fly Kimpton flag



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The new Deep Ellum hotel being built in the historic Knights of Pythias building will be operated by Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants.

The 165-room luxury hotel is part of the Epic mixed-use development being built at Elm Street and Good-Latimer Expressway. The hotel project — which just received $2 million in city tax incentives — is set to open in mid-2020.

"We've been searching for the right opportunity in Dallas," Mike DeFrino, chief executive at Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, said in a statement. "Deep Ellum's vibrant culture, renowned art galleries and incredible concert venues are a perfect match for our unique take on boutique hospitality."

The San Francisco-based hotel operator now operates more than 60 hotels and 80 restaurants and bars in the United States, Europe, Caribbean and China.

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More apartments on the way next to Dallas' Galleria near LBJ Freeway



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Builder Mill Creek Residential Trust is constructing a 5-story, 344-unit rental project on Noel Road north of LBJ Freeway.

"We had the first development community in the new Midtown district, which was incredibly well-received by residents, exceeding our expectations," Mill Creek's senior managing director Rick Perdue said in a statement. "We hope to continue that success next door at Modera Dallas Midtown.

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Developer eyes more apartments on West Dallas' Singleton Boulevard



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Now a Stonelake Capital company has filed preliminary plans with the city of Dallas for a third apartment complex to be constructed in the project.

"Our initial planning for Trinity Green 3 is a 5-story building totaling 278-units and will be along Singleton Boulevard," Stonelake managing partner Kenneth E. Aboussie Jr. said in an email. "Trinity Green will have five multi-family phases in total.

"Trinity Green will be an urban residential district with 1,500 units in total."

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Construction kicks off on $175 million North Dallas seniors community



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The Legacy Midtown Park project is being built just east of North Central near Meadow Road.

A project of Legacy Senior Communities, the rental project will include 184 independent living apartments 50 assisted living apartments, 36 memory care residences and 54 short-term rehabilitation or long-term care suites.

The 8-story development at 8182 Manderville Lane will also include multiple dining rooms, a fitness center and aquatic center.

Dallas-based D2 Architecture designed the building

The project is scheduled to begin opening in the Fall of 2019.

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Amazon eyeing another big shipping hub south of Dallas




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The online sales firm is working on a deal to lease more than 1 million square feet of warehouse space on Interstate 45 in Wilmer for a new distribution hub.

The planned fulfillment center would be the third major facility Amazon has in southern Dallas County.

Amazon is eyeing two buildings in Southport Logistics Park, a $500 million industrial project directly across I-45 from Union Pacific Railway's Dallas Intermodal Terminal.

The company is already advertising for workers in Wilmer.

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More apartments on the way near Dallas' Love Field



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Apartment builders have broken ground on the second phase of rental units in a mixed-use project near Dallas' Love Field.

Irving-based developer JPI is building an additional 354 apartments in the $200 million West Love development on Mockingbird Lane.

"There is no doubt that the West Love development is going to be a top attraction in Dallas, and we're extremely grateful to be a part of this exciting venture," Matt Brendel, senior vice president and development partner at JPI, said in a statement.

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Frisco project will include huge fitness center, offices and retail



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A new mixed-use development on the works for Frisco will bring a huge fitness center plus office and retail buildings on the Dallas North Tollway.

The 36-acre property located north of Main Street on the west side of the tollway was originally planned for a data center, said Lee McCormick with owner Patronus Land Development.

Along with a 124,000-square-foot fitness center, the fitness chain is seeking zoning to build three office buildings and two restaurant and retail buildings, according to plans filed with Frisco.

McCormick said Lifetime Fitness would sell the office and retail sites to other builders.

A park area with walking trails would be built on the northwest corner of the property.

The planned fitness facility would be one of the largest in North Texas for the Minnesota-based company which has nine locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

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$1.5 billion Lewisville project will bring office, retail and apartments to S.H. 121



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Construction has started in Lewisville on a $1.5 billion mixed-use development that will be an urban center for the Castle Hills community.

The 324-acre Realm at Castle Hills project on State Highway 121 west of Josey Lane will have offices, retail, restaurants and apartments. Construction on the first phase includes a nine-story office and retail building.

Another building with retail and apartments is in the works.

The buildings will front a planned park.

Bright Realty will move into more than 50,000 square feet of the 235,000-square-foot office building, which will open in mid-2019.

The second phase of the project will include 260 apartments above 35,000 square feet of retail.

Future phases of The Realm include plans for residential condominiums and an amphitheater entertainment district, along with more retail, restaurants and apartments.

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Razor-Sharp Residential Project Headed to Dallas Arts District



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This looks like a great project. DART at the front door, walkable to the farmers market and a future Tom Thumb, tons of job opportunities between the core and Deep Ellum, easy freeway access. This looks like an example of when LIHTC works to its fullest extent, I hope they get the award to move forward.

It is anecdotal, but I just helped someone move out of a large apartment complex this past weekend in the Deep Ellum area and she told me that apparently the complex wasn't raising rents this year b/c of all the new product that is recently opened and currently going up. There are maybe 6 tower cranes on the east side of DT Dallas right now, the phrase "Don't Uptown My Deep Ellum" is popular down there and I hope that ends up staying true. A development like this with a number of affordable units will help to keep that side of the city attainable for people that don't fit Uptown and make Deep Ellum the unique neighborhood it is.