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DART Transit Trips Rose Faster Than Driving in 2012
The light rail system in Dallas saw a 20.8 percent increase over 2011, just one of many factors in a year of rising transit ridership nationwide. Read more at Transit Trips Rose Faster Than Driving in...
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“A big game-changer”? Next week, Dallas’ plan commission to get first glimpse...
This much we do know: Whatever happens on that enormous patch of land at LBJ and the Dallas North Tollway is way down the road … as in, far beyond the completion of the LBJ Express in 2015(ish). And it...
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Station locations may determine high-speed rail’s future in North Texas |...
The fate of a proposal to build a high-speed rail line connecting Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston may rest on whether North Texas leaders can agree on where to put a station. The Regional Transportation...
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#DowntownDallas retail space still lagging as residential and office...
Downtown Dallas’ new Mercantile Continental apartment building has 203 tricked-out rental units and a posh ground floor lobby lounge and spa. There’s also 5,000 square feet of store space fronting...
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Texas Cities in America’s Fastest- and Slowest-Growing Cities – Forbes
Growth momentum has shifted decidedly toward Texas. Austin’s population expanded a remarkable 3% last year, tops among the nation’s 52 largest metro areas. Three other Lone Star metropolitan areas —...
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Vision for Midtown Dallas (Valley View / Galleria plan)
Theresa O’Donnell, head of the city’s Sustainable Development department, calls the plan to rezone, redraw and completely redo 430 acres of North Dallas “the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved...
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KPMG picks Dallas Arts District building for its new office | Dallasnews.com...
Real estate brokers say that KPMG has picked developer Craig Hall’s planned Arts District office tower for its new location. The race to build the next office tower in downtown Dallas has gotten a...
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Marquee 2012 Developments Have Downtown Dallas Poised For Growth « CBS Dallas...
Downtown Dallas experienced unprecedented progress in 2012 with the completion of several marquee projects, as well as important under-the-radar residential developments that have the city poised for...
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Dallas & Going Horizontal
From: DRealPoints April 10, 2013 by Bob Voelker What do the following news stories have in common? • Downtown Dallas One-Way Streets Reversing Direction • Updated Master Plan for Downtown Parks Calls...
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Transforming Dallas – Creating the “Lingering Effect”
The transformation of the image of a city by definition must occur in the minds of people, and people relate to a city at ground level. No amount of vertical starchitecture can change a city that has...
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Making Harwood Street the Pedestrian Connection between Klyde Warren Park &...
When Dallas built Klyde Warren Park (aka Woodall Rodgers Deck Park), Harwood became in essence a dead end street, terminating at the Park. Traffic (we automatically insert “cars” — which is sad)...
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Banner Week for #DowntownDallas #urbanism News
Dallas Design District to get at least 4 new restaurants by 2015 Atlanta developer is buying Victory tract in Dallas for new residential high-rise Why a Dallas developer wants to bring lofts, retail to...
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A Tale of 3 Streets (in #DowntownDallas)
Remember the magazine games as kids – “circle what’s different about these two pictures?” For my urbanist friends, below are 6 pictures of Downtown Dallas street scenes (Main, Commerce and Elm —...
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If the Aussies can do it, why not Dallas? Let’s be audacious in planning for...
Saw an infographic earlier today that said Melbourne Australia grew its city population from less than 800 in 1993 to over 100,000 today. Would love to know (time for some Google research) how they...
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Inactive New Street Frontage in West End Dallas
No real need to comment on the poor design – lack of ability to “address the street” of this new hotel in Downtown Dallas. Hard to believe that we would permit this type of development. At Griffin...
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Urbanism, I-345 Teardown and Affordable Housing in Dallas – Beyond Race/Place...
Let’s get this out of the way so you can categorize me: I grew up in suburban Kansas City (Overland Park), had 6 minorities in my high school (graduating class of 670), and went to SMU undergrad and...
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Developer – Meet the Urbanist – One of the Goals of CNU23 in DFW
Ever marvel at the contradictions in your life, and why they appear so dissonant? I spent last week at Urban Land Institute’s Spring meeting in Vancouver, one of the gleaming cities in North America,...
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The Latent Potential of #DowntownDallas
Amazing difference what narrower two way streets, better sidewalks, parallel parked cars, can make. Elm & Commerce treat streets as “roads” (platforms to move cars) — whereas Main Street is a...
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The Inter-Connectedness of All Things in Dallas – Race, Place, Urbanism,...
Our quality of life, both individually and collectively, is intricately the result of where we live. We understand this individually when we spend time stuck in traffic, or are forced to drive for...
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More Audacious Plans for Downtown Dallas
Mayor Rawlings has a 10 point Grow South initiative, that includes a private investment fund for Southern Dallas. What if we went further, and helped out Downtown and the Southern sector, forcing the...
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