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Brain Performance Institute Takes New Shape
October 14, 2015

The Brain Performance Institute is getting its own home — a new 62,000-square-foot facility that will bring together the latest research and training techniques designed to improve cognitive skills and health.

On Wednesday, UT Dallas’ Center for BrainHealth will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the institute’s building, which is expected to open in spring 2017 in Dallas. The new facility will be built in the empty parking lot adjacent to the Center for BrainHealth near Mockingbird Lane and Harry Hines Boulevard in Dallas.

“The Brain Performance Institute will be the first facility of its kind — not an acute treatment center, but a place where healthy people as well as people who have sustained a brain injury or disease have the opportunity to help their brain become healthier, more efficient and less stressed,” said Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth, and Dee Wyly Distinguished University Chair in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Page Southerland Page, a leading international architecture and engineering firm based in Dallas, drew inspiration for the building’s design from the anatomy of the human brain, specifically the frontal lobes. Brain training rooms, event spaces and other clinical offerings will be in an elliptical, three-story glass structure connected to a rectangular building filled with administrative offices.

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A giant sneak peek at the makeover planned for 107-year-old Dallas High School downtown
Robert Wilonsky
November 20, 2015

Per the presentation, which you can spend plenty of time with below, Matthews Southwest will remake the high school into a “sustainability designed speculative office with a potential restaurant or retail component on Level 1.”

The patio-covered renderings, of course, show far more than just a potential restaurant, and Matthews says “there will be a unique food component” — though at this point he’s not yet prepared to say how he’ll fill the first floor, aside from a mention of “restaurants and bars.”

At today’s panel review, there was more talk about Phase 2 — three planned offices, a hotel and a parking structure — than what Matthews has planned for the high school. The panel hopes it becomes a true transit-oriented development, a gathering space connecting DART’s Pearl/Arts District Station, the Arts District and the coming Carpenter Park. That, says Matthews, is the plan.

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How you can watch when they implode the old St. Paul University Hospital Sunday morning
Robert Wilonsky
November 20, 2015

Once the site’s cleared, says Russell Rian, UT Southwestern’s assistant director of public relations, it will eventually become home to UT Southwestern’s west campus, which will include a new thermal energy plant and more than 5,200 new parking spaces and two 1.1 million square feet worth of New and Exciting.

“The first building, scheduled for completion in April 2018, will be a nine-story, 302,500-square-foot building with a mix of educational, clinical, and academic office space and a parking garage with connections to the neighboring Professional Office Buildings,” he says via email. “Two levels are dedicated to simulation labs for trainees, and six levels are dedicated to clinic and faculty academic offices. Clinics will include urology, cardiology, CVT surgery, vascular surgery, otolaryngology, endocrinology, rheumatology, allergy, infectious diseases, and genetics.”

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Dallas real estate socialite Candy Evans has more information on Ltd. Edition 2505:

“The lobby experience has been expanded and made more lush,” architect Siamak Hariri told me, “We are expanding the full court of the front landscaping.”

He mentioned a beautiful, cobblestoned drive from Turtle Creek, four motorcourts beautifully tailored with lush landscaping. What he wants to achieve in the lobby is a distinct sense of arrival into a room — a huge “ah ha!” defined by a European edge, with glimpses from every view of the vast expansive gardens that will distinguish this project from just about any in Dallas. (Even the bar will have garden views.) The architecture will expand into the garden, in fact —

“The whole lobby expands right through and to the gardens,” says Siamak. “As it does in any luxurious, gorgeous estate.”

Restraint is difficult to achieve, said Siamak. He assured me his design will not be shouting at us.

The new pricing per square foot is an average of $799 for floors 2 through 13, floors 14 and up will be at about $1000 per square foot.

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Ross Perot Jr.'s Hillwood Communities to build $500M master-planned community in Celina
Candace Carlisle
November 24, 2015

Hillwood Communities — a Ross Perot Jr. company — has acquired 400 acres from the Wells family in Celina with plans to develop a $500 million, 1,250-home master-planned community.

The 1,250 homes are expected to be priced from $300,000 to $500,000 a residence, with an expected build-out cost of $500 million.

The master-planned community will also include resort-style amenities, multiple community parks, miles of trails and retail and restaurant space.

Hillwood plans to break ground on the development in January, with the initial phase of homes delivered in early 2017.

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Developer Alliance Residential starting West Dallas apartment project
Steve Brown
November 24, 2015

Alliance has filed permits with the City of Dallas to build 308 apartments plus a parking garage on the vacant tract at 449 W. Commerce.

The project is valued at more than $48 million on the building permit.

Demarest Architecture designed the four-story buildings, which have retail fronting on Commerce.

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Either that West Dallas complex is one that was announced months ago or it looks like one that was announced months ago. Of course, creativity doesn't seem to be a strong suit when it comes to "wraps".

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Ventana plans to open in 2018. Here's the video.

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Ventana is going to be a nice project in a convenient location. I think taking some of that surface parking and putting in an outdoor space like a garden would be nice, but oh well.

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Trammell Crow Residential ready to go with East Dallas apartments
Steve Brown
November 30, 2015

The developer will build 321 apartments on three blocks at Fitzhugh Avenue and Monarch Street between Ross Avenue and Belmont.

Crow Residential’s project will replace old apartments and some homes.

“We expect to have first units in June of 2017,” said Matt Enzler, Crow Residential managing director. “We have already started abatement on part of the existing buildings and hope to be demo’d and fully underway by the end of the year.”

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Not a development, per se, but an entity which directly affects D/FW's economy, thus influencing development:

Japan Airlines resumes flights from D/FW today
Sheryl Jean
November 30, 2015

Japan Airlines resumes flying Monday from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Tokyo’s Narita International Airport for the first time in more than 14 years.

The Japanese carrier initially will operate four flights a week but has said it might expand to daily service in the spring. It will fly a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner jet.

D/FW, the nation’s fourth-busiest airport, sees more than 63 million travelers a year and offers flights to more than 200 destinations, including 57 international cities. Nearly a third of the international destinations were added in the last five years.

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Verizon plans huge Irving development with office, residential and retail
Steve Brown
November 30, 2015

The mixed-use complex – with 3.5 million of square feet of offices, housing, 85,000-square-feet of retail and a 150-room hotel – would be one of the largest such projects ever built in Irving.

Plans for the 157-acre campus also include a new commuter rail station that would connect with Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and downtown Dallas.

“I envision a tidal wave of development sweeping down that corridor from D-FW Airport through the urban center,” Danish said.

The development is also laid out with 1,750 urban residential units – located in both high-rise buildings, apartment blocks and townhomes.

Construction on the first office buildings would start in the second half of 2016, according to the development application. The first office buildings would be ready by the end of 2018.

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Construction starting on new Victory Park retail and restaurants
Steve Brown
December 1, 2015

The construction will add 22,030 square feet of retail and restaurant space and will open next summer.

“The completion will be pretty fast,” Fair said. “The building is mostly there – we are just finishing it out.”

Architect RTKL designed the project which has been in the works since last year.

The new building will include a second-floor covered patio connected to a planned restaurant at the northeast corner facing the arena.

Construction is set to begin next year on the vacant block next to the garage, adding a movie theater, apartment tower and more retail.

Construction is now under way on three apartment towers and a low-rise rental community that will add more than 1,500 residential units to Victory Park

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New apartments coming at stalled Lake Highlands Town Center
Steve Brown
December 3, 2015

Argyle Residential wants to construct the 4-story, 257-unit apartment building on the west side of White Rock Creek near Skillman Street and Walnut Hill Lane.

Good Fulton & Farrell designed the project.

The new rental community would be across the street from a 200-unit apartment block which opened last year.

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Developer gets dirt flying on Oak Lawn rental community
Steve Brown
December 7, 2015

The 207-unit building started construction this weekend on Cedar Springs Road a block south of Oak Lawn Avenue.

“We closed on the site on Friday and have started,” said Mill Creek’s Rick Perdue. “It doesn’t get any faster than that.”

The building – called Modera Turtle Creek – will open in late 2017.

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Cypress Waters headquarters move could bring almost 1,000 workers
Steve Brown
December 7, 2015

OneSource Virtual would bring 900 workers to a building under construction at 9001 Cypress Waters Blvd., according to documents filed with the City of Dallas’ economic development committee.

The company would locate in the 4-story, 215,000 square-foot office project that is set to open next year.

And by 2019, OneSource Virtual is projected to have at least 1,300 workers at Cypress Waters, according to the city.

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Trammell Crow Co. affiliate begins construction on new 20-story tower in Uptown
Candace Carlisle
December 7, 2015

"After more than two years of pre-development work, including working with the non-profit McKinney Avenue Transit Authority to provide additional space for the expansion of their trolley service in Uptown, we are thrilled to be under construction on M-Line Tower," said Joel Behrens, principal of Trammell Crow Co.'s Dallas-Fort Worth business unit and a board member of the transit authority.

Upon completion, the tower will include a 5,548-square-foot Cafe Express restaurant and 1,730 square feet of space for the new McKinney Avenue Transit Authority trolley barn and executive office.

Construction is slated to be complete in 2017.

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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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New apartments in the works near Garland’s Firewheel Town Center

partment builder ArchCo Residential has purchased 30 acres in Garland for a new rental community.

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

Irving-based Realty Capital Management sold the property to Georgia-based ArchCo Residential.

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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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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