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[AP]

It seems pretty apparent by that map that not many people care about south Dallas.

[Geographer]

It seems pretty apparent by that map that not many people care about south Dallas.

There's quite a bit of development throughout the whole metro that is missing from the map...but there's really too much for 1 or 2 people to keep up with in putting those on the map. There are a few that I am aware of in bishop arts/oak cliff that are not on the map currently.

[adaniel]

It seems pretty apparent by that map that not many people care about south Dallas.

LOL, you just touched the third rail of Dallas city politics.

There is quite a bit of small scale redevelopment down that way. With all due respect to whomever made this map, most of this stuff posted is just the big corporate projects, some of them not even progressing anymore. So don't take it as the gold standard.

As geographer pointed out, lots of things going on in and around the Bishops Arts District, as well as Trinity Groves. In fact, the city just opened a new streetcar line connecting it to DT. And there is quite a bit of gentrification in and around Kessler Park and the Cedars. Of course, it will always be a struggle to develop that part of town because the reaction most people have even now is South Dallas=OMG scary minorities! But it is definitely changing.

[Geographer]

Agreed. I love to frequent Trinity Groves and the Oak Cliff neighborhoods. My favorite ramen place is over in Sylvan30

Some of the best connected street grid neighborhoods in DFW are found in South Dallas in the Oak Cliff neighborhoods. The area is truly a gem.

[Geographer]

For those in DFW...here's an update of what's going on in downtown Arlington:

Downtown Arlington is alive and bustling with activity! Many projects are in the works if not already in progress. Local business owners and developers are acting on the great potential our amazing city has.

Kool Keg - The famous provider to many kegs and equipment rentals will now be a bar. They are close to completing a remodel of their current building. They will be a craft beer bar and have a growler refilling system as well. With outdoor seating and possible food options the future is bright for the well established Arlington brand and business. Re-Opening Soon!

404 Border - Downtown Arlington's first market rate residential project. 135 1 and 2 bedroom units with high end amenities such as resort style pool with cabanas and rooftop skybox lounge. With an urban design and walkable location this project is close to completion and is starting to lease units the first of 2016.

Division Brewery - Arlington's first locally owned and operated brewery! They are set to open any day now and located in the newly remodeled and refinished Lone Star Comics warehouse.

101 Center - This 22 month project broke ground earlier this morning and is located on the site of the old Central Library. 221 High End market rate apartments will be located in a 6 story building with offices, retail, restaurants, and a 1500 sq ft fitness center on the first floor with apartments above. The parking garage will be in the middle with the buildings wrapping around. This garage will also serve as parking for city hall across the street to the west. Several units will be designed for business start ups, meaning there will be one rent but you get a business front on the first floor and your apartment above. This will encourage and promote economic development through new startups.

Central Library - $29 million 3 story 80,000 sqft new library will be located just north of the current city hall and will take out the parking lots currently there. This will replace the previously torn down central library. With rooftop gardens, quiet reading areas, cafe/vending are, tech labs, local history area are just some of the featured areas this new state of the art building with offer future generations to come.

City Council Chambers - Current council chambers will be torn down and rebuilt to get building up to ADA requirements and allow a green space/plaza between city hall and the new library

The Arlie Apartments - Greystar's latest student housing will supply the needs of UTA students as it tops 40,000 students! Luxury student housing 1 to 4 bedroom units equaling 500 beds. Resort style pool, fitness gym, fully furnished apartments add to the growing campus within walking distance. Located on west Abram replacing the old Catalina apartments makes this development walking distance to a new thriving downtown. Leasing is underway now and construction should be complete within a couple months.

Proctor Place - These townhomes are the latest addition to Downtown Arlington's downtown housing options. 10 3 bedroom 3 bath units walking distance to UTA, with each unit will be 3 stories with balconies. This will put more residents at the end of the growing downtown primed for activity on into the night.

Woody's Backyard - Is one of the latest dining options to be coming to Downtown Arlington, Woody's backyard is a bar, grill, and outdoor dining. 4000 sqft indoor dining space with 3000sqft patio. The empty lot has large mature trees and the structure with be designed with like material used in the Levitt and Block 300 development that is home to Twisted Root, Flying Fish, and Hooligans.

Trinity Tavern Bar - This will be the lastest addition to the Arlington Music Hall development. New owners plan to start construction on this 2400sqft bar with 2000sqft patio in February. This will be located next to Babe's Chicken on the southwest corner of Division and Center street.

Urban Union - This project is already in progress and started in 2014. It is located on the former site of Luke Honda dealership. 7 acre infill site with 8 buildings offering over 70,000 sqft of space to lease. Already one company headquarters has relocated to this site. Modern open concepts break from your traditional office space found in Arlington, this development will bring restaurants and offices. Located on the border of Division st./ East st/ Front st. This will be the home to Legal Draft Brewery that plans on opening in Spring 2016 and offering tours, tasting room, beer garden, and patio with live music. Former Joe's Radiator shop will be home to a new restaurant with an Ice House type feeling. Full service kitchen, patio, live music, full service bar will serve the new residents starting in Spring 2016.

Arlington is alive and well and Big Things are to come! With Arlington Commons to break ground in the next 30 days in North Arlington, redevelopment and reinvestment in a great city is sure to spread city wide and not just downtown. Offering different options in housing and entertainment along with work. Talks have continued as UTA looks into starting their own Med School and opportunities only await as UTA grows as well as interest in Arlington. Cant wait to see whats next!!!

(thanks to another poster from another forum for this detailed update)

In addition, the planned reconstruction for Abram Street into a more pedestrian friendly downtown street is still on schedule.

[Sic'EmBears]

Developer Craig Hall pushing ahead with Arts District condo and hotel tower
Steve Brown
November 11, 2015

Designed by Dallas architect HKS, the high-rise will be a modern building clad in a metal and glass skin. The hotel rooms will be on the Ross Avenue side of the building, with luxury residences units facing Flora.

The plan is for a 218-room boutique hotel.

“It will be similar in quality to the Ritz,” Hall said. “There’s room in Dallas for another small luxury hotel.”

The planned condo tower will contain about 44 super-luxury residential units.

“It’s a very thin building with only about 7,500 square feet of space per floor,” Hall said. “The units are going to be large — on average 3,600 square feet.

“There will be a private underground garage for the condominiums.”

A rooftop garden and swimming pool will overlook the Arts District.

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[Sic'EmBears]

Westcott-owned firm to start construction of Dallas luxury apartments
Candace Carlisle
November 12, 2015

A development firm affiliated with Westcott-owned private equity firm Commodore Partners — Commodore Development LLC — plans to get underway Thursday with a new luxury apartment community on North Central Expressway.

The four-story apartment community, called The Mark at Midtown Park, will bring high-end living to 10550 N. Central Expressway between Royal and Walnut Hill lanes in North Dallas.

The North Texas region has hit all-time record high rental growth as jobs and companies continue to flock to the area.

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[Sic'EmBears]

Architects have been selected to redo downtown Dallas’ landmark Trammell Crow Center
Steve Brown
November 12, 2015

After interviewing a selection of prominent architects, J. P. Morgan selected HOK, real estate brokers say.

Plans call for a revamp of the lobby areas and reworking the entrances to the office tower, real estate brokers say.

As part of the Trammell Crow Center redo, J.P. Morgan also plans to build a large parking garage, retail space, apartments and a hotel on a vacant block the investor last year purchased across the street on Ross Avenue.

That project – designed by Dallas’ HKS – is expected to start next year.

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[Sic'EmBears]

Stephan Pyles' new namesake restaurant within Hall Arts to soon get underway
Candace Carlisle
November 17, 2015

Celebrity chef Stephan Pyles is readying for construction on his new flagship restaurant — a yet-to-be named concept within Hall Arts — in the Dallas Arts District.

"We are in progress right now with our plans to open the restaurant," said Pyles, who recently returned from Cuba. "We have bids out for construction and we're looking to open in mid-March with construction scheduled to start in the next few weeks."

Wilson Associates is the architect on the restaurant, which will sit in one of two restaurant spaces within a detached, one-story building on Flora Street within Hall Arts from the Meyerson Symphony Center.

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[Sic'EmBears]

Hillwood has new development plans for fabled Circle T Ranch
Steve Brown
November 17, 2015

The developer wants to turn 128 acres at the entrance of the northeast Tarrant County property into a mixed-use development with offices, apartments and retail space.

Hillwood is asking for approvals to build a corporate office campus with more than 1 million square feet of space in several buildings, 750 apartments, a 200-room hotel and 80,000 square feet of retail and entertainment space.

Development designs by architect Gensler show a complex of high-rise and low-rise buildings constructed around small lakes and open space.

The first phase would include a 286,000-square-foot office project, the hotel and retail space plus 250 residential units.

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[Sic'EmBears]

Construction set to start soon on Cityplace apartment and hotel tower
Steve Brown
November 3, 2015

Developer Forest City Enterprises plans to build the 23-story high-rise just west of North Central Expressway on Blackburn Street.

The building will contain 389 luxury apartments, 150 hotel rooms and retail space on the ground floor. The project is between Noble and Oak Grove avenues.

The high-rise is one of more than a dozen new residential towers in the works for the Dallas area.

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[Sic'EmBears]

Marriott hotel to break ground at The Canyon in Oak Cliff
Rachel Stone
November 16, 2015

Construction could begin soon on the first piece of a 200-acre development at Interstate 30 and Westmoreland.
A four-story Residence Inn by Marriott Hotels & Resorts is planned for The Canyon in Oak Cliff, a massive residential/office/retail development adjacent to Pinnacle Park.

The project’s developers plan as many as 7,500 apartments, 1,000 hotel rooms, 1.2 million square feet of office space and 800,000 square feet of shops and restaurants.

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[Plutonic Panda]

I really wish they'd get started in the Dallas Midtown Galleria project.

That mall is so beautiful inside but is has huge parking lots nearby that really make the area feel blah

[Eddie1]

I really wish they'd get started in the Dallas Midtown Galleria project.

That mall is so beautiful inside but is has huge parking lots nearby that really make the area feel blah

Sorry, not familiar with the project you are referring to...have any links?

[Sic'EmBears]

Sorry, not familiar with the project you are referring to...have any links?

Here is the website.

Here are two recent articles on Midtown. View them here and here.

[Plutonic Panda]

Sorry, not familiar with the project you are referring to...have any links?

Check out the links Sic'EmBears provided. It will be amazing if they build it as shown.

[Eddie1]

Yeah, I took a look at that site, looks really cool. Dallas is really amazing. Even though I like living here it's fun knowing that such a great city is only 3 hours away.

[Sic'EmBears]

More on the Circle T Ranch property:

Exclusive: Charles Schwab to build corporate campus near Perot's Circle T Ranch development
Candace Carlisle
November 17, 2015

San Francisco-based Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCHW) could open up a massive operations center on a corporate campus planned adjacent to Circle T Ranch, a 2,500-acre mixed-use, master-planned development in Westlake.

The financial services company is expected to buy 74 acres of land adjacent to the Circle T Ranch from Hillwood by the end of the year, according to real estate sources.

"We’re very interested in the Dallas area for future growth and have signed a lease in the Westlake area that can accommodate up to 500 employees," said Sarah Bulgatz, a spokeswoman for Charles Schwab, in an email to the Dallas Business Journal. Bulgatz declined to comment concerning speculation about future real estate deals involving Charles Schwab.

The company has signed a five-year lease for 130,000 square feet of office space at 2050 Roanoke Road in Westlake, which sits adjacent to the development site.

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Aligned Data Centers to unveil new $300M data center complex in Plano
Candace Carlisle
November 18, 2015

After months of development, Aligned Data Centers plans to unveil its new $300 million, 30-megawatt data center complex in Plano that is expected to bring a new pay-for-use concept to Dallas-Fort Worth.

Aligned Data Center executives plan to unveil the initial 100,000-square-foot phase of the new data center complex on Thursday beginning at 4 p.m.

The company has plans to expand the data center by another 200,000 square feet in the future. Balfour Beatty was the site construction manager on the initial phase of the project.

Dallas-Fort Worth has seen of an influx of data centers after Facebook landed its $1 billion data center campus in north Fort Worth. The region is one of the top data center markets in the country.

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[Sic'EmBears]

$850 million residential community coming west of Fort Worth
Steve Brown
November 18, 2015

The $850 million, 700-acre Morningstar development is being built north of Interstate 20 in Aledo.

More than 2,000 houses are planned in the project which is just starting construction.

The development will include a community center with resort-style pools, a lakeside amphitheater, two-and-a-half miles of hike and bike trails and open space.

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Frisco approves plans for residential community, shopping center on part of Brinkmann Ranch
Steve Brown
November 18, 2015

Designs just approved by Frisco’s planning and zoning commission call for construction of about 500 houses and a shopping center at the northwest corner of Main and Independence.

The residential community is planned to contain both single-family and patio style homes.

The housing would wrap around the 31-acre retail center to be constructed on the 171-acre corner, according to plans filed with the City of Frisco.

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An exclusive look inside the $90M redo of Dallas' Butler Brothers Building
Candace Carlisle
November 18, 2015

The nearly $90 million redevelopment of the historic Butler Brothers Building is well underway, with some portions of the building waiting approval from Marriott and development execs.

At completion, the Butler Brothers Building — a longtime vacant, nine-story building at 500 S. Ervay St. next to Dallas City Hall — will evolve into a dual-branded Marriott hotel and a 238-unit apartment building.

"We are on schedule and should be opening the hotel portion of the project by December 2016," Turkish developer Mike Sarimsakci told the Dallas Business Journal.

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[Plutonic Panda]

Sic Em' thanks a million for the updates!!! I browse DFWU from time to time, but I get lost and there is so many updates a lot of basic info gets buried so strict info like this is appreciated.

[Sic'EmBears]

Toronto developer to begin selling luxury living in $225M condo tower
Candace Carlisle
November 18, 2015

Toronto-based builder Great Gulf plans to begin selling luxury condos in its 20-story condo tower at prices ranging upwards of $14 million, with plans to begin construction in fall 2016.

The tower, called Ltd. Edition 2505, will begin selling homes ranging from $1.3 million to $14 million this Saturday.

Great Gulf Residential President Christopher Wein said there's been an overwhelming response from Dallas homebuyers seeking this type of development.

The condo homes will average 3,800 square feet of space with 10-foot ceilings, expansive terraces, double-sided fireplaces and hardwood floors. The tower is designed by renowned architect Siamak Hariri.

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[Plutonic Panda]

I really like that project. I am anxious to see the Dream Hotel get underway as well.