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The Design District will see another 400-unit apartment project.

Alta Strand will be located at 1931 Market Center Blvd. and is designed by Good Fulton & Farrell.



Cowboys owner Jerry Jones kicks off construction on big Prosper shopping center
Steve Brown
November 9, 2015

Almost 20 years after buying the land, Dallas Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones has quietly started construction on his $1 billion Gates of Prosper development.

Construction crews are busy at the northeast corner of Preston Road and State Highway 380 in the town of Prosper.

Jones’ Blue Star Land Co. is teaming up with developer Lincoln Property to build a more than 300,000-square-foot shopping center on the property located just north of Frisco.

The plan to remove, redo and replant the iconic rusted wall serving as downtown Dallas’ ‘Portal’
Robert Wilonsky
November 9, 2015

According to a briefing given to the Dallas City Council’s Quality of Life Committee Monday morning, the 34-year-old Portal — as well as the statute of John Carpenter — will be removed before the design development phase begins in January. The wall and the statue will be stored in a Park and Recreation Department facility, then added back whenever the park reopens as the eight-acre spread long imagined in the Downtown Park Master Plan.

Irwin’s sculpture was “terrific at the time, but given the way pedestrian traffic flow — or, rather doesn’t — it’s become something of a problem,” Kingston said Monday morning. “And we’re lucky he’s agreed to rework the thing.” After all, he noted, when the Carpenter family hired Irwin decades ago he was famous. But now, said Kingston, “he’s a living legend.”

FIRST LOOK: KDC'S DEEP ELLUM JV

Looking for the next big development opportunity, KDC is already working on marquee projects. But, now the iconic developer is working on an infill TOD in Deep Ellum.

Bill tells us he’s always looking for the next corridor of development opportunities. Right now, many signs point to urban infill, he says. KDC is partnering with Westdale Properties to develop The Epic mixed-use project in Deep Ellum.

The Epic (rendered here) TOD is right on the DART line and will include residential, office and a hotel. The Epic will have 250k SF of office and a hotel in a historic 100-year-old brick four-story building. The office will be right on Good Lattimer and Elm Street. Bill says more details are forthcoming, but he can’t release too much info just yet.

Trammell Crow's city block project, 2000 Ross, has renderings.

2000 Ross Avenue is an HKS designed, vertical mixed-use development, which will over 30,000 SF of retail, 351 residential units, and a 227-room hotel. The 26-story project will encompass an entire Downtown Dallas city block with frontage on RossAvenue, Harwood Street, San Jacinto Street and Olive Street. Its close proximity to the highly acclaimed Dallas Arts District and over 13M square feet of office provides for a compelling mix of restaurants and dining options.

Retail is scheduled for delivery in Q3 2017 and the entire project is scheduled for completion in Q3 2018.

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Developer brings food-only project to older Richardson stretch
Karen Robinson-Jacobs
November 18, 2015

The Richardson Restaurant Park, a crop of up to seven restaurants north of Spring Valley Road, is to open next year, supplanting about a dozen businesses, including a past-its-prime motel.

The Rock Wood Fired Kitchen & Spirits, a freestanding casual dining restaurant, will occupy roughly 7,500 square feet on two floors.

VertsKebap, an Austin-based fast-casual chain that serves sandwiches, wraps and salads, will continue its Dallas-Fort Worth growth with a location in the park.

In July, Dog Haus, a gourmet hot dog, sausage and burger chain based in Pasadena, Calif., announced a 20-restaurant franchise deal for North Texas that includes a restaurant park location.

Most of the restaurants will be clustered around a central plaza that will serve as a public square and include a shallow pool fountain with illuminated translucent columns. At least four of the restaurants will surround the plaza.

The portion of the site opposite Central will have a walkway that leads to the adjacent residential neighborhood.

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Developer Mehrdad Moayedi lands key tract to build $1B project in Farmers Branch
Candace Carlisle
November 19, 2015

Longtime developer Mehrdad Moayedi — the man behind the build-out of the massive redevelopment of The Statler and the finish-out of the Stoneleigh Residences condo tower — has landed a 370-acre key tract of land in Farmers Branch, with plans to build a $1 billion "true mixed-use" development.

Plans for the development include two hotels, 3,500 apartments, retail shopping, more than 800 single-family home sites for townhomes and residential villas, 180,000 square feet of commercial space and a 48-acre office campus.

Moayedi also planning to build a boardwalk-like restaurant row along the lakefront in the development.

Other amenities include a 5,000-seat outdoor amphitheater and residential amenity center with plans for a kid splash park and pool for residents.

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A prime development site in Plano’s Legacy business park is being pitched for a major office deal
Steve Brown
November 19, 2015

The four acres on the east side of the Dallas North Tollway are one of the last construction sites in the popular Legacy Town Center.

The prime location is one of the sites that mortgage giant Fannie Mae is considering for a new North Texas office location, real estate brokers confirm.

The mortgage giant is also looking at new buildings proposed by developer KDC in the $2 billion Legacy West development.

And Fannie Mae is talking with Granite Properties about a new tower in its Granite Park development at the tollway and State Highway 121.

The Fannie Mae office would take up to 300,000 square feet, brokers who are watching the deal say.

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$300 million Garland development will bring homes, apartments and a restaurant
Steve Brown
November 19, 2015

Called the Woodlands on Spring Creek, the development will contain a variety of homes, apartments and even a small restaurant building.

Single-Family

Most of the development will be used for 382 single-family homes priced from $300,000 to more than $400,000.

The homes will be surrounded on two sides by green areas with walking trails that connect to the nearby Spring Creek Forest Park Preserve.

Senior Living

Carrollton-based Cross Development and Titus Capital will build the 150-unit seniors project.

“We are going to build a four-story project for active adults,” said Chris Willhite of Titus Capital.

Apartments

Irving-based JPI plans to build 321 rental units on the north side of Garland Road.

Floridays Development Co. of Sarasota, Fla., plans to build 320 units on Arapaho.

Dining

“We are looking at doing a restaurant with outdoor seating looking over Spring Creek,” Holigan said. “Where else do you find 140 acres in a location like this?”

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Brain Performance Institute Takes New Shape
October 14, 2015

The Brain Performance Institute is getting its own home — a new 62,000-square-foot facility that will bring together the latest research and training techniques designed to improve cognitive skills and health.

On Wednesday, UT Dallas’ Center for BrainHealth will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the institute’s building, which is expected to open in spring 2017 in Dallas. The new facility will be built in the empty parking lot adjacent to the Center for BrainHealth near Mockingbird Lane and Harry Hines Boulevard in Dallas.

“The Brain Performance Institute will be the first facility of its kind — not an acute treatment center, but a place where healthy people as well as people who have sustained a brain injury or disease have the opportunity to help their brain become healthier, more efficient and less stressed,” said Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth, and Dee Wyly Distinguished University Chair in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Page Southerland Page, a leading international architecture and engineering firm based in Dallas, drew inspiration for the building’s design from the anatomy of the human brain, specifically the frontal lobes. Brain training rooms, event spaces and other clinical offerings will be in an elliptical, three-story glass structure connected to a rectangular building filled with administrative offices.

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A giant sneak peek at the makeover planned for 107-year-old Dallas High School downtown
Robert Wilonsky
November 20, 2015

Per the presentation, which you can spend plenty of time with below, Matthews Southwest will remake the high school into a “sustainability designed speculative office with a potential restaurant or retail component on Level 1.”

The patio-covered renderings, of course, show far more than just a potential restaurant, and Matthews says “there will be a unique food component” — though at this point he’s not yet prepared to say how he’ll fill the first floor, aside from a mention of “restaurants and bars.”

At today’s panel review, there was more talk about Phase 2 — three planned offices, a hotel and a parking structure — than what Matthews has planned for the high school. The panel hopes it becomes a true transit-oriented development, a gathering space connecting DART’s Pearl/Arts District Station, the Arts District and the coming Carpenter Park. That, says Matthews, is the plan.

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How you can watch when they implode the old St. Paul University Hospital Sunday morning
Robert Wilonsky
November 20, 2015

Once the site’s cleared, says Russell Rian, UT Southwestern’s assistant director of public relations, it will eventually become home to UT Southwestern’s west campus, which will include a new thermal energy plant and more than 5,200 new parking spaces and two 1.1 million square feet worth of New and Exciting.

“The first building, scheduled for completion in April 2018, will be a nine-story, 302,500-square-foot building with a mix of educational, clinical, and academic office space and a parking garage with connections to the neighboring Professional Office Buildings,” he says via email. “Two levels are dedicated to simulation labs for trainees, and six levels are dedicated to clinic and faculty academic offices. Clinics will include urology, cardiology, CVT surgery, vascular surgery, otolaryngology, endocrinology, rheumatology, allergy, infectious diseases, and genetics.”

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A giant sneak peek at the makeover planned for 107-year-old Dallas High School downtown
Robert Wilonsky
November 20, 2015




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Holy crap that's a lot of people standing around doing nothing! Gotta love some of the renderings these people produce.

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Holy crap that's a lot of people standing around doing nothing! Gotta love some of the renderings these people produce.

lol sounds like the front of TCL on Hollywood blvd

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Dallas real estate socialite Candy Evans has more information on Ltd. Edition 2505:

“The lobby experience has been expanded and made more lush,” architect Siamak Hariri told me, “We are expanding the full court of the front landscaping.”

He mentioned a beautiful, cobblestoned drive from Turtle Creek, four motorcourts beautifully tailored with lush landscaping. What he wants to achieve in the lobby is a distinct sense of arrival into a room — a huge “ah ha!” defined by a European edge, with glimpses from every view of the vast expansive gardens that will distinguish this project from just about any in Dallas. (Even the bar will have garden views.) The architecture will expand into the garden, in fact —

“The whole lobby expands right through and to the gardens,” says Siamak. “As it does in any luxurious, gorgeous estate.”

Restraint is difficult to achieve, said Siamak. He assured me his design will not be shouting at us.

The new pricing per square foot is an average of $799 for floors 2 through 13, floors 14 and up will be at about $1000 per square foot.

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A photo I took of the new Céline boutique at Highland Park Village:

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Ross Perot Jr.'s Hillwood Communities to build $500M master-planned community in Celina
Candace Carlisle
November 24, 2015

Hillwood Communities — a Ross Perot Jr. company — has acquired 400 acres from the Wells family in Celina with plans to develop a $500 million, 1,250-home master-planned community.

The 1,250 homes are expected to be priced from $300,000 to $500,000 a residence, with an expected build-out cost of $500 million.

The master-planned community will also include resort-style amenities, multiple community parks, miles of trails and retail and restaurant space.

Hillwood plans to break ground on the development in January, with the initial phase of homes delivered in early 2017.

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Developer Alliance Residential starting West Dallas apartment project
Steve Brown
November 24, 2015

Alliance has filed permits with the City of Dallas to build 308 apartments plus a parking garage on the vacant tract at 449 W. Commerce.

The project is valued at more than $48 million on the building permit.

Demarest Architecture designed the four-story buildings, which have retail fronting on Commerce.

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Ventana plans to open in 2018:

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Interesting article in the NY Times today about Chinese investment money flooding into US and specifically Dallas area real estate development.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/bu...rket.html?_r=0

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Trammell Crow Residential ready to go with East Dallas apartments
Steve Brown
November 30, 2015

The developer will build 321 apartments on three blocks at Fitzhugh Avenue and Monarch Street between Ross Avenue and Belmont.

Crow Residential’s project will replace old apartments and some homes.

“We expect to have first units in June of 2017,” said Matt Enzler, Crow Residential managing director. “We have already started abatement on part of the existing buildings and hope to be demo’d and fully underway by the end of the year.”

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Not a development, per se, but an entity which directly affects D/FW's economy, thus influencing development:

Japan Airlines resumes flights from D/FW today
Sheryl Jean
November 30, 2015

Japan Airlines resumes flying Monday from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Tokyo’s Narita International Airport for the first time in more than 14 years.

The Japanese carrier initially will operate four flights a week but has said it might expand to daily service in the spring. It will fly a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner jet.

D/FW, the nation’s fourth-busiest airport, sees more than 63 million travelers a year and offers flights to more than 200 destinations, including 57 international cities. Nearly a third of the international destinations were added in the last five years.

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Verizon plans huge Irving development with office, residential and retail
Steve Brown
November 30, 2015

The mixed-use complex – with 3.5 million of square feet of offices, housing, 85,000-square-feet of retail and a 150-room hotel – would be one of the largest such projects ever built in Irving.

Plans for the 157-acre campus also include a new commuter rail station that would connect with Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and downtown Dallas.

“I envision a tidal wave of development sweeping down that corridor from D-FW Airport through the urban center,” Danish said.

The development is also laid out with 1,750 urban residential units – located in both high-rise buildings, apartment blocks and townhomes.

Construction on the first office buildings would start in the second half of 2016, according to the development application. The first office buildings would be ready by the end of 2018.

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Construction starting on new Victory Park retail and restaurants
Steve Brown
December 1, 2015

The construction will add 22,030 square feet of retail and restaurant space and will open next summer.

“The completion will be pretty fast,” Fair said. “The building is mostly there – we are just finishing it out.”

Architect RTKL designed the project which has been in the works since last year.

The new building will include a second-floor covered patio connected to a planned restaurant at the northeast corner facing the arena.

Construction is set to begin next year on the vacant block next to the garage, adding a movie theater, apartment tower and more retail.

Construction is now under way on three apartment towers and a low-rise rental community that will add more than 1,500 residential units to Victory Park

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New apartments coming at stalled Lake Highlands Town Center
Steve Brown
December 3, 2015

Argyle Residential wants to construct the 4-story, 257-unit apartment building on the west side of White Rock Creek near Skillman Street and Walnut Hill Lane.

Good Fulton & Farrell designed the project.

The new rental community would be across the street from a 200-unit apartment block which opened last year.

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Developer gets dirt flying on Oak Lawn rental community
Steve Brown
December 7, 2015

The 207-unit building started construction this weekend on Cedar Springs Road a block south of Oak Lawn Avenue.

“We closed on the site on Friday and have started,” said Mill Creek’s Rick Perdue. “It doesn’t get any faster than that.”

The building – called Modera Turtle Creek – will open in late 2017.

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Cypress Waters headquarters move could bring almost 1,000 workers
Steve Brown
December 7, 2015

OneSource Virtual would bring 900 workers to a building under construction at 9001 Cypress Waters Blvd., according to documents filed with the City of Dallas’ economic development committee.

The company would locate in the 4-story, 215,000 square-foot office project that is set to open next year.

And by 2019, OneSource Virtual is projected to have at least 1,300 workers at Cypress Waters, according to the city.

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Trammell Crow Co. affiliate begins construction on new 20-story tower in Uptown
Candace Carlisle
December 7, 2015

"After more than two years of pre-development work, including working with the non-profit McKinney Avenue Transit Authority to provide additional space for the expansion of their trolley service in Uptown, we are thrilled to be under construction on M-Line Tower," said Joel Behrens, principal of Trammell Crow Co.'s Dallas-Fort Worth business unit and a board member of the transit authority.

Upon completion, the tower will include a 5,548-square-foot Cafe Express restaurant and 1,730 square feet of space for the new McKinney Avenue Transit Authority trolley barn and executive office.

Construction is slated to be complete in 2017.

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