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Old 07-28-2015, 09:04 AM
 
Location: Prosper
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Between 121 and 380, it's just amazing how many projects are in the works now.
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Old 07-28-2015, 10:15 PM
 
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Even KISS is getting in on the action... lol :

Food and Drink: Restaurant fronted by KISS band members to open in Dallas suburb | GuideLive
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Old 07-28-2015, 10:22 PM
 
Location: plano
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Awesome so much for the folks who claim everything hot is in Dallas not the leach suburbs as some mistakenly label us.
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Old 07-29-2015, 08:36 AM
 
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Great news for the whole Dallas area.
Why is The Colony suddenly a mecca for all things cool ? Good for us, but still...what are they doing right ?
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Old 07-29-2015, 08:43 AM
 
Location: North Texas
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Great news for the whole Dallas area.
Why is The Colony suddenly a mecca for all things cool ? Good for us, but still...what are they doing right ?
Cheap land.
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Old 07-29-2015, 09:07 AM
 
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Cheap land.
True, but not for long, the land they are developing on was bought soooooooo long.

Try buying now, just kidding they won't/can't
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Old 07-29-2015, 09:35 AM
 
Location: plano
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Great news for the whole Dallas area.
Why is The Colony suddenly a mecca for all things cool ? Good for us, but still...what are they doing right ?
Nebraska furniture mart selected the colony because they could get 400 acres with a 2 miles frontage on 121, near the future.

Toyota landed its North American HQ less than a mile away which is driving some of the new development in the area too. Toyota said they came to this location because of 100 acre track available in an area with good schools and burbs for employees. They intentionally did not select Dallas which is not the Mecca some on CD would try to tell you it is.

We will see how the burbs support the restaurants and higher end shopping coming to legacy worst and these entertainment venues. The jury is definitely still out.
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Old 07-29-2015, 10:13 AM
 
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Great news for the whole Dallas area.
Why is The Colony suddenly a mecca for all things cool ? Good for us, but still...what are they doing right ?
It's somewhat of a natural expansion down 121 into available land. That whole area is hopping with new housing, Nebraska Furniture Mart, Grandscape, etc.
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Old 07-29-2015, 10:52 AM
 
Location: North Texas
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True, but not for long, the land they are developing on was bought soooooooo long.

Try buying now, just kidding they won't/can't

Cheap relative to, say, Dallas itself. It also hits a demographic sweet spot as it's close to a lot of suburbs popular with people relocating to the area who are going to need giant furniture to fill their giant houses. And they'll also need places to eat, buy clothes, and pay too much for coffee.

It's next to impossible to get tracts of land that big to develop a Nebraska Furniture Mart-sized store (or even an Ikea-sized store) in older suburbs because there are a lot of different owners of adjacent plots and they won't always play nice. It took quite a while and a lot of horse-trading to even get a Quik Trip built on Belt Line in Richardson due to that. Ikea???? Fuggedaboudit!

To build the upcoming Richardson Restaurant Park on Central (between Spring Valley and Belt Line), the city itself had to buy an old motel and demolish it...then other adjacent plots had to be purchased because that site still wasn't big enough to build four restaurant pad sites. It has taken years and they haven't even poured the first foundation.

I use Richardson as an example only because I'm familiar with these projects, but I'd assume the same is true all over built-out areas of DFW. The Colony doesn't (or at least didn't 5-7 years ago) have this problem. You had huge open tracts of land that could be purchased from one, maybe two owners. You had nearby residents hungry for new retail development and a city hungry for tax revenue (as most always are). It's not all that surprising. I bet The Colony is probably more flexible on zoning changes than some other city councils are, not least because they probably have fewer pissed-off residents bellowing in their ears about how they don't WANT a 90,000 sq ft Wal-Mart.
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Old 08-05-2015, 10:38 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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That's cool! Also, The Colony is giving huge tax breaks for businesses that come into the area...appealing to NFM esp :-) lol
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