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Jerry Jones’ Blue Star Land is ready to start 1,800-home community in Prosper
Steve Brown
December 7, 2015

“We are in city hall with plans for an 1,800-home lot development called Star Trail,” Joe Hickman, who heads Blue Star Land, said Monday. “The first phase will be approximately 400 home lots on the northwest corner of Prosper Trail and the Dallas North Tollway

“By 2017 this is going to look very different.”

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Granite Properties breaks ground for Southlake office project
Steve Brown
December 8, 2015

The 161,000-square-foot Granite Place building is under construction starting today in the Southlake Town Square, north of State Highway 114.

T he 7-story office project was designed by Dallas’ Beck Group, which is also the general contractor.

The office project is scheduled to open late next year.

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MetLife and developer Panattoni team up on big Lancaster industrial park
Steve Brown
December 9, 2015

Metropolitan Life Insurance and Panattoni Development Co. are teaming up to build a 250-acre industrial park in Lancaster.

The MidPoint Logistics Center is being built at Interstate 20 and Dallas Avenue and will have almost 4 million square feet of warehouse space.

Four buildings in the project will range from 340,200 square feet to 1.6 million square feet.

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New apartments in the works near Garland’s Firewheel Town Center
Steve Brown
December 10, 2015

The project is located near the Firewheel Town Center development at Bush Turnpike and Bunker Hill Road.

The project called The Domain at Firewheel will have about 300 units in the first phase. Construction is to start by the second quarter of 2016.

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Gateway residential community project to transform Forney
Steve Brown
December 10, 2015

The 1,850-home Gateway Parks project on U.S. Highway 80 in Forney is the biggest section yet in a larger development in the works for more than a decade.

The 2,000-acre community will contain everything from apartments and shopping centers to offices and single-family homes.

Homes in the Gateway Parks residential community will start between $200,000 and $300,000.

And a 40-acre shopping center is planned at U.S. 80 and Gateway Boulevard.

“We’ve also teamed up with the city to have a water park on part of the land that will open in the spring of 2017,” Bain said.

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Champions Park Breaks Ground at Northeast Corner of I-30 in Arlington
Ryan Hunt
December 10, 2015

Greenway Investment Company broke ground today to mark the start of construction for Champions Park – Phase I. The project will include 4 retail/restaurant buildings totaling 54,000 square feet of inline space. In addition, there will be four premier restaurant sites nestled into a half-acre festival park area.

Phase I is slated for completion by the fall of 2016. Torchy’s Tacos and Tokyo Joe’s are the first restaurant leases to be signed, and Greenway is working leases with several other high profile restaurants and retailers.

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Arlington mixed-use project ‘a game-changer for downtown’
Robert Cadwallader
September 22, 2015

In a first for Arlington, Catalyst Urban Development of Dallas is set to break ground next month on a 22-month project to build a mixed-use complex designed around a “live-work-play” concept. It will feature 221 high-end apartments over a first floor of retail businesses, including shops; a 1,500-square-foot exercise gym; potentially multiple restaurants; and many other tenants.

Catalyst principal Paris Rutherford said that the garage side of the apartment building will have small office spaces — about 1,000 square feet — for small businesses like certified public accountants and people who work from home. Those tenants could work and sleep in those “live-work units.”

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Arlington considering $200 million proposed development near Rangers ballpark
Claire Z. Cardona
December 12, 2015

The agreement, which would be a public-private partnership between the city and the Rangers, calls for a hotel with at least 300 rooms and 35,000 square feet of meeting and convention space.

The complex would be the southwest corner of Nolan Ryan Expressway and East Randol Mill Road, currently the site of Rangers parking lots.

Construction would begin next year.

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Ah Sic'Em you beat me to it...I was going to post that Arlington article.

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Plano council OKs $2.3 million incentive for 175 more apartments in Downtown
Kristen Taketa
December 15, 2015

The five-story buildings will have 12,800 feet of non-residential space and four stories of apartments on top of that. A three-level garage with 120 public parking spaces – 50 more than the current parking lot on the site – will be nestled underneath. The whole project is supposed to be worth $27 million, at minimum.

Demolition will start in February, construction in the following July, and it’ll be two years and a month before the buildings are expected to be finished in August 2018.

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New renderings for 2850 Harwood.

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JP Morgan to partner on North Dallas apartment community
Steve Brown
December 15, 2015

Called The Laurel, the 4-story project is just across Northwest Highway from the popular Preston Center shopping and office district.

“This luxury product will be comprised of larger homes that cater to the nearby down-scaling and renters-by-choice that want to stay in this prestigious neighborhood with the bonus of the adjacent Preston Center amenities.”

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Lincoln Property is starting work on new Dallas Arts District tower
Steve Brown
December 16, 2015

Less than six months after buying the high-profile corner of Woodall Rodgers Freeway and Pearl Street in the Dallas Arts District, the developer is breaking ground on a 25-story office high-rise.

The 260,000-square-fooot metal and glass tower will go up right next door to the Meyerson Symphony Center.

The building will open in about 18 months.

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Central Dallas to see big boom in hotel rooms
Karen Robinson-Jacobs
December 16, 2015

Now, more than a dozen hotels – with more than 2,500 rooms – are in the pipeline or already open in a central Dallas area that includes downtown, Uptown, the Cedars, the Design District and the area near Baylor University Medical Center.

Based on a raft of public announcements, Downtown Dallas Inc. estimates there are at least 14 hotels slated to open between fall of 2015 and the end of 2018. That’s the biggest rooms expansion in central Dallas in memory, said John Crawford, who heads the organization that champions downtown development.

Twenty-four major conventions – called citywides – are expected in Dallas in 2016. That’s up from 22 held in 2015, but it’s a 26 percent jump from 2012, the first full year of operation for the Omni. And the city is working with popular travel guide Lonely Planet to boost Dallas’ appeal to tourists.

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Developers starting new apartment community at Dallas’ Midtown Park
Steve Brown
December 17, 2015

The 302-unit, $40 million development is going up at Meadow and Rambler Roads.

Apartments in the new project will range in size from 590 square feet to 1,552 square feet.

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View of Klyde Warren Park from the new Arts District tower.

Park District, the two towers in the center, are visible.

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First Two Businesses Approved for Westlake Entrada
Susan McFarland
December 16, 2015

Mayor Laura Wheat asked representatives from both CVS and Primrose if they had ever seen a development style like this and both smiled and said “No,” acknowledging that the architecture standards are far higher and more complex than found elsewhere.

From the tile roofs to the pave stone streets, Entrada will reflect the feel of a Catalonian village. This upscale live-work-play center will include retail, restaurants, hotels, entertainment, office and medical space, water features, an amphitheater, conference center uses and about 300 single family detached homes, villas, and town homes.

Wheat stressed the importance of successful design and quality construction for these first buildings in the development.

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I went to Dallas last Saturday (first time since October 2014) and was impressed to see US 75 expanded to 8 lanes (4 each way) to north of McKinney.

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I went to Dallas last Saturday (first time since October 2014) and was impressed to see US 75 expanded to 8 lanes (4 each way) to north of McKinney.

Yeah it's an awesome highway. They are fixing to widen it again and do it what they they did to LBJ Freeway which is beautiful.

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A plan to expand Klyde Warren Park to the Perot Museum is in the works
Robert Wilonsky
December 23, 2015

Now, there is a plan in the works to expand the park, adding acres to its 5.2-acre footprint and bringing it closer to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.

Wednesday afternoon, Jody Grant, chairman of the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation and the key fundraiser for the park, confirmed long-swirling rumors that he’s in talks to extend the popular park all the way to North Field Street.

Grant says he’s been “consulting with architects” about a plan, but nothing’s been done other than a conceptual video and a few renderings shown to a select few, including the mayor.

Rawlings said what he’s seen so far shows two elevated walkways — one from the west end of the park to the second floor of the Perot, and another to the Arts District.

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International firm Interceramic will move U.S. headquarters to Carrollton
Steve Brown
January 5, 2016

An international tile and building materials firm is moving its U.S. headquarters from Garland to Carrollton.

Interceramic will build a 330,000-square-foot office building in developer Billingsley Co.’s Austin Ranch.

The company will move about 150 workers to the project it’s finished late this, including top execs.

The new building will be constructed at the southwest corner of Parker Road and Plano Parkway.

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Developers woo office project for West Dallas’ Trinity Groves complex
Steve Brown
December 30, 2015

The owners of the popular Trinity Groves restaurant complex – West Dallas Investments L.P. – are seeking a developer or investors to build a high-rise office building at the western end of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.

The 3.1-acre first class office project would be built next door to the Trinity Groves complex and across the street from where developer Columbus Realty just broke ground on an apartment community.

Construction on the office project would start next year at Singleton Boulevard and Gulden Lane, according to marketing material for the building.

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Los Angeles-based investor plans $100 million makeover for Texas Instruments former Plano campus
Steve Brown
January 5, 2016

Regent Properties plans to convert the 84-acre high-tech center at Legacy Drive and Central Expressway into an office and mixed-use complex.

The new owner plans to renovate four existing buildings while looking at potential construction on 16 acres of undeveloped properties on the campus.

Regent says it will consider developments of restaurants, a hotel, and retail and additional office buildings on the site, which can accommodate up to 3.7 million square feet of construction.

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$260 million home community coming on Lake Lewisville
Steve Brown
January 5, 2016

The $260 million Northlake Estates project will include building lots for 750 homes, walking trails and a community center.

Construction is scheduled to start in the first quarter with the first homes available in 2017.

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Accounting firm PwC to move from downtown to anchor new Uptown tower complex
Steve Brown
January 6, 2016

Construction will start on the $250 million project next week.

The 2-tower development at Pearl Street and Woodall Rodgers will include an office tower and 34-story apartment high-rise. PwC will lease 200,000 square feet of space in the Park District project — the first business to commit to the development.

At Park District, PwC will occupy eight floors of the 20-story tower.

Along with the 500,000 square feet of office space, Park District includes 253 luxury residential units and restaurant and retail space facing the park.

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