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5GStudio has designed a 320-unit apartment building for North Dallas.

The development is to be built on two empty lots, just east of City View.

Both the Muse and Modera Galleria are within two blocks walking distance.

Alpha Road Apartments is a 320 unit multi-family residential project located in Dallas, TX. This community is 352,778sf consisting of two expansive pool decks with generous outdoor space, a fitness room, and party room which opens to the pool deck through a wall of glass bi-folding doors. The layout and locations of the outdoor amenity spaces are at the heart of the complex with apartments rising around them.

The materiality of the design respects the context through the use of brick and stucco and bringing interest to the design through the composition of these materials. To define the project an aluminum louver system stands at the entry of the development providing a memorable icon and gateway into the complex. Alpha Road Apartments is a master planned community providing a home for its residents within an urban environment.

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‘It’s showtime’: The Cedars is about to debut the Alamo Drafthouse it’s been awaiting for years
Robert Wilonsky
January 30, 2016

The Alamo Drafthouse, a seven-screen multiplex, bar and restaurant, is nearly finished on South Lamar Street in the shadow of downtown Dallas.

Crews are finishing out the 700-seat, seven-auditorium theater for its Feb. 12 “soft” opening, attaching small tables to leather seats, building outdoor patio structures, installing the elevator, polishing the 3,000-square-foot kitchen, decorating karaoke rooms that look like space ships and the insides of a pinball machine.

“The reason Jack approached the Alamo was he wanted a theater as a neighborhood anchor,” DiGaetano said. “He wanted a place where people could gather.”

The Alamo, which will have a restaurant and bar (the Vetted Well) on the second floor and some 400 parking spots next to and behind the theater, is intended to change that. This is all-hours traffic coming directly to The Cedars’ front door.

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Large datacenter planned for Richardson one of several in the works for North Texas
Steve Brown
February 1, 2016

The more than 470,000-square-foot 3-story datacenter would be built on more than 20 acres at the northwest corner of Security Row and International Parkway.

North Texas was the second fastest growing datacenter market in the country in 2015, behind only suburban Washington, D.C., according to a new report by commercial property firm JLL.

“We are continuing to have record absorption here,” said JLL’s Bo Bond. “Those numbers do not include corporate build-to-suit projects like Facebook and State Farm.”

Bond said the next generation of projects will be bigger and will include more ground-up construction, rather than converting old commercial buildings.

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Farmers market will be centerpiece of new Frisco development
Steve Brown
February 1, 2016

Called Frisco Fresh Market, the Main Street project will also include office buildings, apartments and a hotel on 32 acres just east of the Dallas North Tollway.

“Our project is a specialty lifestyle retail project with primary focus on fresh food and farm fresh produce as well as a variety of small vendors selling artisan products,” said developer Paul Cheng who heads USA Infrastructure Investments. “It will be about 70,000 square feet of indoor facilities and 10,000 square feet of outdoor facilities.

The project is planned to include two office buildings, five retail and restaurant buildings and 597 apartments. The development will be next door to the Toyota Stadium.

Cheng said work will start on the development this fall.

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This is what they are trying to put together at Chisholm Creek in OKC.

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Will be interesting to see how they compare.

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This is what they are trying to put together at Chisholm Creek in OKC.

I think choosing that location is a very poor for a place like this.

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I think choosing that location is a very poor for a place like this.

I'm not so sure...

Lots more people with disposable income live in that area than anywhere else in the City.

I think we'll see some similar things downtown, just on a smaller scale.

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Hopefully they can create placemaking similar to places like Pike Place, Reading Terminal Market, Eastern Market in DC, Milwaukee Public Market and others. We'll see...

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LEDs will wrap around each floor plate of One Uptown.

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Frisco's The Gate development costs to exceed $1B.

Here's the article, along with new renderings.

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J.P. Morgan Chase's new $300M regional headquarters in Plano aquires land for future expansion.

Read about it here.

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Investors from China, Germany, Korea, Peru and UAE are interested in investing in Frisco's $5.4B mile.

Read about it here.

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Now how can that be with all of those horrible highways and six lane roads prohibiting development? I thought walkability was key to making cities thrive lol...

Great projects going on though. I love it. Frisco is a beautiful community and I can't wait to see what is in store for their future.

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While not a physical development, Dallas' film industry continues to grow:

Reese Witherspoon-produced pilot will be filmed in Dallas, highlighting the city's urban vibrancy.

Read about it here.

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D/FW followed only NY and LA in job creation last year:

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Read about it here.

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Verizon's $1.5B+ mixed-use development to go before Irving city council in March.

Plans call for 3.5M square feet of office, 85K square feet of retail, a 150-room hotel and community green. The development is to be built adjacent to one of DART's Orange Line stations.

Read about it here.

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D/FW placed third in total value of commercial projects for 2015:



Here's the article.

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Arlington Commons, a 353-unit apartment complex, begins construction tomorrow.

The project's master plan includes a total of 1,300+ units.

Here's the article.

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Taken today:

Park District



McKinney & Olive

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10-story glass office tower planned for Preston Hollow Village.



Read about it here.

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Appreciate the updates.

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Saw there is a new package that will include the resurrection of the full project Pegasus in Dallas which is extremely welcoming.

TxDOT Unveils Initial $1.3 Billion to Address Congestion

I absolutely love TxDOT and wish ODOT would follow in their footsteps. Love the highways in Dallas. Such a breeze almost overtime I go there and though I do encounter traffic back ups, for the most part, I really don't feel like I'm in a city of 7 million.

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Texas Health to build $37M drug and alcohol North Texas treatment facility
Bill Hethcock
February 9, 2016

Texas Health Resources plans to construct a $37 million, 80-bed treatment center for drug and alcohol addiction in Mansfield — the first facility of its type for the health system.

Health system leaders will break ground at 9 a.m. Wednesday on Texas Health Residential Treatment Center at 240 North Miller Road in Mansfield.

The facility is slated to open in May 2017.

The 100,000-square-foot center will have four residence halls, divided by age groups: adolescents from 12-17 years old; young adults from 18-25; women; and general population of 25 and older.

Beck will complete the architecture and the construction for the project.

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Sunoco L.P. has decided to move headquarters to Dallas.

Employees from Philadelphia, Corpus Christi and Houston have been asked to relocate.

Read about it here.