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M-Line Tower progress, via Andres Construction:

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Construction is kicking off for the 2-tower Union project in Uptown
Steve Brown
March 24, 2016

Construction crews have started preparing for development for the 2-tower Union project north of downtown.

The $200 million office, residential and retail development on Cedar Springs Road is one of the largest new projects in the works for Uptown.

Located just a block north of Woodall Rodgers Freeway, the Union will include a 22-story office tower, apartment high-rise and retail and restaurant space.

Tom Thumb will have a 60,000-square-foot grocery store in the project when it opens late next year.

While sitework for the development has begun, a formal groundbreaking is expected within the next couple of weeks.

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Alamo Manhattan to start $57M project after getting $11.25M in TIF funds
Candace Carlisle
March 24, 2016

Our design has been moving along for awhile and we have already made great progress," Wade Johns, vice president at Alamo Manhattan, told the Dallas Business Journal."This is a major milestone for sure and we plan to get underway as early as September."

We have done development in different parts of Texas and the West Coast and we have never seen a community engaged or care so much as this project," he told at the time. "They love north Oak Cliff and are interested in it doing well and making sure this property fits into the neighborhood."

Bishop Arts Station includes plans for 209 apartments and 25,200 square feet of restaurant and retail space at the northwest and southeast corners of Zang Boulevard and W. Davis Street in the Bishop Arts neighborhood.

The project will also be funded with private equity (a little more than $20 million) and a construction loan (more than $37.1 million). If the deal is approved by the council, the developer could begin the project in September and expect completion by May 2018.

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West Love Update:

New real estate projects are taking off around Dallas’ busy Love Field
Steve Brown
March 24, 2016

“This whole area is undergoing a renaissance,” said developer Jorge Ramirez, who is turning two blocks of old industrial and commercial properties into a new mixed-use development.

His 35-acre, $200 million West Love development is the biggest new project in the Love Field area.

With passenger traffic up more that 50 percent at Love Field and expansions at the nearby medical centers, the area south and west of the airport is attracting new development.

Apartment builder Fairfield Properties just cleared six acres south of Love Field at Denton Drive and Inwood Road where it is building a 347-unit complex.

“Our first phase of apartments is 368 units,” Ramirez said. “And we have 10 townhouses, too. We plan to be under construction in about 90 days.”

The apartments and townhouses will join two new hotels, an office building and shopping center at the site at Mockingbird and Maple Avenue.

“The retail will be low profile, up against street — very pedestrian-oriented,” Ramirez said. “There have been a ton of new apartments going up in this area but no new gathering places, no restaurants.

“We have listened to the neighborhood and what it needs.”

KDC’s office building will be at least 150,000 square feet.

“We can do up to 200,000 if someone comes along and needs more square footage,” Guthrey said.

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Update:

University of North Texas is continuing renovation of the historic Dallas Municiple Building, which opened in 1914.

After renovation, the building will become home to UNT's College of Law.


106 Harwood, Dallas, TX by Conley Group


106 Harwood, Dallas, TX by Conley Group


106 Harwood, Dallas, TX by Conley Group

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Cake Boss (Carlos) Food Network opens the newest bakery in Dallas!!



Watch: Cake Boss? new Dallas bakery lines up customers layer upon layer in Preston Center | | Dallas Morning News

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Nice to see more density in Preston Center.

Work starting on new North Dallas senior housing community
Steve Brown
March 29, 2016

Silverstone Healthcare Co. will break ground tomorrow on its new North Dallas senior housing community.

HarborChase of the Park Cities is on the east side of the Dallas North Tollway at Sherry Lane in Preston Center. The eight-story building will house 134 assisted-living and memory-care residential units.

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Houston contractor expanding to North Texas with major project near I-20
Steve Brown
March 29, 2016

A Houston general contractor that’s expanding operations in North Texas has broken ground on a Lancaster industrial project.

The 468,000-square-foot distribution center is the latest project Colorado-based Huntington Industrial Partners is doing in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

“I saw no better location than Dallas,” CEO Michael G. Scheurich said. “There are many common core relationships within the major Texas cities.”

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Cityplace Hotel/residential tower update:

New rendering from a new DMN article:

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West Village is going to look totally different. When I was down there the driving range was still open. The Mondorian was the only thing over 5 or 6 stories in that area. Just in that short time 3 towers will have gone up. The amount of development down in that area is breathtaking.

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West Village is going to look totally different. When I was down there the driving range was still open. The Mondorian was the only thing over 5 or 6 stories in that area. Just in that short time 3 towers will have gone up. The amount of development down in that area is breathtaking.

The added residential space is always welcome, but the hotel component of this project is what we're most looking forward to.

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Via Andres Construction's Facebook:

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Plano’s Granite Park campus will start sixth tower as major employers land next door in Legacy
Steve Brown
March 30, 2016

Granite Properties is about to build even more.

In the next 90 days the developer will break ground for its sixth office tower at Granite Park.

The 10-story, 330,000-square-foot building will house regional offices for mortgage giant Fannie Mae.

And Granite is crafting designs for two more office high-rises — including a 20-story tower fronting on S.H. 121.

“We started out here with one building and now we have a small city,” Fuller said.

The Fannie Mae tower on Granite Parkway will open in October of next year.

Granite Properties has just started construction on a 29,000-square-foot shopping center that fronts on S.H. 121.

“We have 11 restaurants in total planned for Granite Park,” Fuller said. “All the retail we built has been designed around servicing our office tenants — the same for the hotel.

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After a year of digging through limestone to construct the underground parking garage, Bleu Ciel is soon to go vertical.

Harwood's ultra-luxe skyscraper Bleu Ciel ready to rise into the sky
Candace Carlisle
March 30, 2016

It's taken about 16 months for the Dallas-based development firm Harwood International to get ready to head sky high with its 33-story, ultra-luxury residential skyscraper, but that's just what the firm plans to do in the next week or so.

So far, Harwood has put seven homes under contract in the last seven days, Jessica Young, a spokeswoman for Harwood International, told the Dallas Business Journal.
"Our housing team — Harwood Living — is ahead of the game," said Young, who said Bleu Ciel will have approximately 158 homes (depending on finish out) within the skyscraper.

The architect of the project is Jean-Michel Wilmotte of Wilmotte & Associes S.A. in Paris.

Harwood International plans to start vertical construction on Thursday, April 7.

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Construction ready to start on new residential community near South Side on Lamar
Candace Carlisle
March 30, 2016

The new three-story, single-family home community, called Southside Place in Dallas, will have high-end finishes and fixtures with open floor plans and some rooftop deck options built by David Weekley's Central Living brand.

The homes will be priced starting in the mid-$400,000s.

A groundbreaking ceremony is slated for Tuesday, April 12 at 10 a.m. on the development site across Lamar Street from NYLO Dallas South Side hotel.

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Dallas Mavs' Mark Cuban working with HKS, Texas A&M on new practice facility design
Candace Carlisle
March 29, 2016

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been working with Dallas-based HKS Inc. and architecture graduate students from Texas A&M on the design of the NBA team's new practice facility, which real estate sources say the billionaire would like to put in an urban part of the city.

In a news release, Texas A&M said the university's students recently showed Cuban and HKS' director of sports and entertainment Bryan Trubey (former Texas A&M graduate) designs for a new mixed-use development meant to become a destination for Mavericks fans, players and team personnel, with amenities such as a team store, public cafe, museum, outdoor water feature and garden.

"The building will also include office space and conference rooms for startup technology companies, further separating the building from typical NBA practice facilities," according to Texas A&M officials.

Real estate sources say the billionaire has begun looking at options near Victory Park and in Deep Ellum in hopes of landing a new state-of-the-art practice facility that has the capability to aid in player recruitment and generate more buzz from fans.

"Overall, the sports industry is taking notice of what [Jerry] Jones has done, which is essentially building a secondary home to generate revenue and build fan support that will ultimately build the brand," said John Alper, vice president of strategic partnerships for Plano-based Chisum Sports & Hospitality, told the Dallas Business Journal.

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Construction ready to start on new residential community near South Side on Lamar
Candace Carlisle
March 30, 2016





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Geez the Mid 400's!? That's incredible pricing in the Lamar corridor.

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Riverfront development site is on Mark Cuban’s radar for new Mavericks mixed-use project
Steve Brown
March 31, 2016


Design concepts for the 505 Riverfront property included mixed-use and high-rise buildings. (CBRE)

One of the properties Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is eyeing as a potential location for his new team training center and headquarters complex just came on the market for sale.

The vacant tract has more than 40 acres and is located northwest of downtown Dallas on the banks of the Trinity River at the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.

A partnership headed by Dallas businessman Dale Foster has owned the property on both sides of the bridge at 505 Riverfront Boulevard for almost four years.

The investors have previously looked at mixed-use development options for the land. It’s zoned for high density development.

“We are taking the property to market,” CBRE senior vice president David Glasscock said. “We have not been approached by the Mavericks organization or Mark Cuban, but the property is for sale and we are open to discussion.”

Another potential Riverfront site for the new Mavericks facility is south of Interstate 30.

Developer Matthews Southwest has 60 acres on Cadiz Street at Riverfront Boulevard.

The large vacant tract is just south of the growing South Side district along Lamar Street.

Cuban owns about 3.5 acres in the same area on Lamar.

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Rendering of Fannie Mae's new office building in Granite Park:

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One Uptown update from CTroyMathis:

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High-rise hotel on the way near Galleria in Dallas’ redeveloping Midtown district
Steve Brown
April 4, 2014

A second major project is in the works in Dallas Midtown redevelopment district along LBJ Freeway.

Developers are preparing plans for a new Marriott Hotel that would be built just east of the Dallas Galleria shopping mall.

The planned high-rise hotel is on part of the former Showcase Chevrolet property at Noel Road and LBJ, according to filings with Dallas’ planning and zoning department.

Carrollton-based Atlantic Hotels Group and Civitas Capital want to build the 256-room hotel on 3.6 acres.

Dallas-based architect 5G Studio Collaborative designed the project which includes a parking garage and large open courtyard.

City planners have taken issue with pedestrian access and the parking requirements for the development.

The proposed hotel tower is in an area surrounded by high-rise construction.

The Midtown district stretching from the Galleria to Valley View Mall has been earmarked for billions of dollars in mixed-use redevelopment.

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One Uptown progress, from today:

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Shaddock development arm buys acreage on Frisco's Brinkmann Ranch for 500-home community
Candace Carlisle
April 4, 2016

"We are developing the last phase of a seven-phase development in Frisco that has been very successful and this will be a continuation of that," he added.

Construction on home lots are slated to get underway this summer, with lots being delivered to builders by fall 2017. The builder's include Village Homes, Shaddock Homes and Darling Homes.

The new single-family homes are expected to range in price from the $400,000s to upwards of $1.2 million.

"We very much like the Independence Parkway market," Shaddock told me. "It's two minutes north of State Highway 121 and there are a number of large, brand-new schools within walking distance of the property.

"There's also a prestige to being part of the Brinkmann Ranch property," he added.

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Allen residential project will add almost 200 homes
Steve Brown
April 5, 2016

Allen’s city council has approved plans for a new residential community west of U.S. Highway 75 that will add almost 200 homes.

The new Montgomery Farm Estates will be more than 85 acres south of Bethany Drive.

There will be about 10 acres of open space.

Homes in the Montgomery Farms neighborhoods are priced at more than $500,000.

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Today:

The Ascent (background) / Skyhouse II (foreground)



McKinney & Olive



1920 McKinney Avenue