What is Dallas' next "place to be" neighborhood?

[skys the limit2]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

Yep those two cranes you see on Stemmons are for a 21-story apartment building in the Design District just across from Victory Park.

Just as a clarification, the new 1400 Hi Line apartment tower is actually 23 stories tall. Not a big difference from what you wrote but it is 23 stories.

[skys the limit2]

Originally Posted by dollaztx

North Oak Cliff, Design District, Bishop Arts District, the southern part of the SW Medical District. That whole area around the Trinity is ripe for development and they have the master plans for it to happen. The Design District and B.A.D. is already seeing alot of the land being developed.

^^^^^^^ I agree with all of the Districts you mention.

There are so many areas of close-in Dallas that are either already booming with enormous activity or are on the verge of doing so. The close-in neighborhoods are going to become the wave of new population growth for Dallas in this next decade, to hell with the 2010 census!

But two areas not yet mentioned that I think will be huge "hot spots", and one already is, would be Knox-Henderson which is just exploding and West Dallas.

West Dallas is where the really big money and big development will be focused over the next decade+.

If the Trinity River project gets back on track, ALL NEIGHBORHOODS fronting it will absolutely boom and become ultra-hot desirable areas to live.

And West Dallas will be unbelievable in what it can ultimately become since it is already zoned for dense urban highrise and skyscraper development to create a true walkable big city neighborhood and feel. The West Dallas Urban Plan that has been approved by the City calls for over 30,000,000 square feet of new skyscraper and highrise development to occur with over 24,000 in new population living there.

Downtown Dallas has already jumped over Woodall Rodgers Expressway and now includes Uptown, Victory and Lower Oak Lawn.

With the new 23 story apartment tower under construction in the Design District, it has now jumped over Stemmons Freeway - and more towers will assuredly be on the way there.

When Downtown leaps over the Trinity River to West Dallas, over the next decade the City will begin to take on the look of a Chicago with skyscrapers looming in all directions surrounding the Trinity River Lakes and having jumped over all major freeways in the Downtown core.

Here is an image from the UT School of Architecture from Fall of 2010 that is a model of how West Dallas could look with the Trinity River project. West Dallas is in the foreground of the image and would become a dense extension of Downtown. New skyscrapers are also shown fronting the Trinity on the Downtown side of the Calatrava Bridge, which makes sense. You can faintly see the existing Downtown in the background of the image.




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[Exult.Q36]

Originally Posted by skys the limit2

^^^^^^^ I agree with all of the Districts you mention.

There are so many areas of close-in Dallas that are either already booming with enormous activity or are on the verge of doing so. The close-in neighborhoods are going to become the wave of new population growth for Dallas in this next decade, to hell with the 2010 census!

But two areas not yet mentioned that I think will be huge "hot spots", and one already is, would be Knox-Henderson which is just exploding and West Dallas.

West Dallas is where the really big money and big development will be focused over the next decade+.

If the Trinity River project gets back on track, ALL NEIGHBORHOODS fronting it will absolutely boom and become ultra-hot desirable areas to live.

And West Dallas will be unbelievable in what it can ultimately become since it is zoned for dense urban highrises and skyscrapers to create a true walkable big city neighborhood and feel.

Downtown Dallas has already jumped over Woodall Rodgers Expressway and now includes Uptown, Victory and Lower Oak Lawn.

With the new 23 story apartment tower under construction in the Design District, it has now jumped over Stemmons Freeway - and more towers will assuredly be on the way there.

When Downtown leaps over the Trinity River to West Dallas, over the next decade the City will begin to take on the look of a Chicago with skyscrapers looming in all directions surrounding the Trinity River Lakes and having jumped over all major freeways in the Downtown core.

Here is an image from the UT School of Architecture from Fall of 2010 that is a model of how West Dallas could look with the Trinity River project. West Dallas is in the foreground of the image and would become a dense extension of Downtown. New skyscrapers are shown fronting the Trinity on the Downtown side of the Calatrava Bridge, which makes sense. You can faintly see the existing Downtown in the background of the image.




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They need to go ahead and build that lake. I am just not feeling a bridge with no water under it. Not very pleasing to my eyes. I would like to see downtown Dallas extended on the southside.