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View Poll Results: Which skyline looks better?
Dallas 218 33.44%
San Francisco 434 66.56%
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Old 03-11-2011, 12:17 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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I love the pics of San Francisco you just posted! Great shots!

Sometimes skyline pictures from a distance are much better because they give a better feel for the actual size and scale.

And I love San Francisco!

I was there last June for one week as part of a two and a half week business/vacation trip that took me to LA (which I also love for its own reasons!), up the coastal highway to San Simeon, Nepenthe, Monterey, Berkeley, Oakland, and ultimately to beautiful San Francisco with side trips to Napa, Muir Woods, Mt. Tamalpais, and Sausalito among others.

I stayed at the Hyatt Regency Union Square - it was so close to everything. If we didn't walk to it we could hop a bus or a train, and we had a car as well. It was a really lovely time in your fair City last summer!

I've been to San Francisco several times over the years and look forward to returning every time I go.
^Glad you liked it here.

I also really enjoy myself whenever I visit the Metroplex, no wonder everyone's moving there. LOL.

 
Old 03-11-2011, 12:34 AM
 
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The Santiago Calatrava designed bridge linking Dallas' Financial District to its new urban frontier of West Dallas. The bridge is not completed in this picture, although it has been topped off. Suspension wires will stretch in both directions and the bridge will be illuminated at night. Photo taken 10-12-10 with Downtown Dallas Financial District in the background:


Downtown Dallas closeup of skyscrapers and the Calatrava Bridge, which has been topped off but is still under construction, 10-12-10. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52949402@N03/5095161629/ - broken link) by skys the limit2 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52949402@N03/ - broken link), on Flickr



View of the Calatrava Bridge illuminated in blue in recognition of the fact that Dallas was the host city for the NFC in Super Bowl XLV. Photo taken on 01-31-11:


Calatrava Bridge with Downtown Dallas 1, 01-31-11 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52949402@N03/5408910231/ - broken link) by skys the limit2 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52949402@N03/ - broken link), on Flickr



Another view of the Santiago Calatrava designed bridge (without suspension wires installed yet) with Downtown Dallas as the backdrop. Photo taken 01-31-11:


Calatrava Bridge with Downtown Dallas 2, 01-31-11 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52949402@N03/5409496670/ - broken link) by skys the limit2 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52949402@N03/ - broken link), on Flickr



And a third shot of the Santiago Calatrava bridge with Downtown Dallas right behind it, taken on 01-31-11:


Calatrava Bridge with Downtown Dallas 3, 01-31-11 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52949402@N03/5409496638/ - broken link) by skys the limit2 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52949402@N03/ - broken link), on Flickr



The 400 foot tall, $165 million dollar Calatrava Bridge, along with the extension of Woodall Rodgers Expressway from Downtown Dallas into West Dallas/Oak Cliff, are still under construction with completion expected in late 2011.

Magnificent suspension wires will stretch in both directions of the arch in a very "Golden Gate Bridge" like manner once completed. The bridge will be permanently illuminated at night.

In retrospect a decade from now, the Calatrava Bridge and its extension of Woodall Rodgers across the Trinity into West Dallas will be viewed as a keystone event that laid the groundwork for the next wave of dense urban development for Downtown Dallas.

Woodall Rodgers is the "golden corridor" for Downtown Dallas and has spawned billions in new development, both in Uptown/Victory Park and the more traditional Financial District. In fact, an argument could be made that Woodall Rodgers is becoming the new 21st century "Main Street" for Downtown Dallas with the explosive growth that has occurred along both the north and south sides of it.

West Dallas is currently essentially a wasteland, much like the land where the American Airlines Center and Victory Park were constructed. With the Woodall extension, West Dallas will become the next Victory Park/Uptown with billions in new dense urban development that will increase both the population and tax base for the City.

While some may like to call it a bridge to nowhere, in fact it is THE bridge to the future.

Plans call for over 30,000,000 square feet of new dense, walkable urban highrise and skyscraper development to be built in a relatively small footprint of West Dallas along with the addition of 24,000 residents in the next 17 years ... pretty incredible growth. It is the Calatrava Bridge and the new frontier it will open up that will help catapult Dallas into its status as the "Chicago of the South" by 2030.

Here is the planned development guideline developed by the City for the new urban frontier of West Dallas:

<a href="http://www.dallascityhall.com/cityde...debook-eng.pdf" a>
 
Old 03-11-2011, 01:22 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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@skys the limit 2, What an interesting bridge-looks like an instant icon already.
 
Old 03-11-2011, 02:27 AM
 
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the dallas skyline is kind of tacky. that ball and the green outlined building... yuck
 
Old 03-11-2011, 09:23 AM
 
Location: America
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165 million dollars of crap. To think what that money could've been used for.
 
Old 03-11-2011, 10:03 AM
JJG
 
Location: Fort Worth
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165 million dollars of crap. To think what that money could've been used for.
.... it's Dallas, so....
 
Old 03-11-2011, 05:16 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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165 million dollars of crap. To think what that money could've been used for.
It's not crap! I think it will help grow the southern sector of Dallas.
 
Old 03-11-2011, 05:31 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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Here's the Reunion Tower under-construction (The Reunion Tower is a part of the Hyatt Dallas Regency Hotel. That's the building next to Reunion Tower)









 
Old 03-11-2011, 06:55 PM
 
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Here's the Reunion Tower under-construction (The Reunion Tower is a part of the Hyatt Dallas Regency Hotel. That's the building next to Reunion Tower)
Thanks for sharing all of the photos you've posted! Seeing them all makes me proud to be from Dallas.

Side note: Look at the first photo at how cheap the hotel room rate is ($2.00 to $2.50)!
 
Old 03-11-2011, 10:07 PM
 
Location: America
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It's not crap! I think it will help grow the southern sector of Dallas.
I just feel that money should've gone to building an actual community, not a pointless, pretentious bridge. Not being a hater, just honest.
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