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Originally Posted by R1070
There's still some stuff going on there, but not as hot as other areas of Central Dallas. There's just so much available land around Dallas, that the need to build in one area isn't a necessity. I think we'll start to see more momentum downtown as the area continues to be invested in (new parks, new modern streetcar lines, new convention center, etc.).
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I dunno, there's a lot of clustered development in one tight spot in uptown now. Uptown is becoming the new downtown, in terms of offices. But offices are boring and not what they used to be because of work from home, so whatever. Uptown is pretty blah IMO, it's just luxury offices and towers with underground parking garages full of Audi's. That said Downtown is too much on the other side of the spectrum with bums and meth heads everywhere and it's not a good place to be.
It's disappointing that these things are migrating further from DART, though I wonder how many office workers at Bank of America or Goldman Sachs would ever use transit. And look on the bright side, at least Uptown is directly across the highway from Downtown and still effectively in the city center, rather than a Houston type situation where the CBD, although slightly healthier, is very far from the new regional core which around the Galleria and out I-10. It would be like if Uptown Dallas didn't exist and instead the same amount of development was strewn along 635 instead (along with what's already there).
I think Dallas should prioritize entertainment, tourism, higher education, and governmental office space in the original CBD and let the cards fall. I don't think the macro trend of declining office demand is something that the city of Dallas could ever stop.
Also the homeless services and congregation points need to be relocated out of the CBD. I'm not saying that an individual who may or may not be homeless can't exist in a public space if they are doing nothing illegal, this is a free country after all. But like, shelters and groups that do feeding services, etc, need to be given space somewhere else preferrably on the other side of I-30/345 and there needs to be zero tolerance for laying around on the sidewalk.
Not sure if it's possible but I wonder how hard it would be to get rid of Star Liquor by West End Station.
I know real life isn't SimCity but whole area needs to be redone. Re-align streets, etc to make it possible to redevelop those lots. How much parking does that part of Downtown still need if many of the office workers have left and the homeless turned West End into a ghost town 30 years ago?
Despite all the articles saying its impossible to convert midcentury high rise office towers to residential because their floors are too big or whatever, hasn't Downtown Dallas been almost a leader in that?
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