i like that dallas is finally getting some more new big buildings after a few decades, but i hope the city also focuses more on improving their existing roads and making the city more walkable at the same time. we need more sidewalk construction and upgraded traffic lights and roads!
most of those new “skyscrapers” that have been built recently are just apartment buildings that look almost exactly the same and just as any other apartment building in the country. the AMLI fountain place and these two new buildings are the real skyscrapers/additions to the skyline
Don't love developer tax breaks, but we need more housing of all kinds and density to support public transit, both of which these developments will provide. Overall good news for Dallas.
You have to incentivize growth. Say Dallas says no tax break so Goldman goes to Houston instead because they still offered tax break. So you lost the construction jobs, then the permanent staff of the building‘s jobs, then you lose the tax revenue from the business in the building property, taxes aswell and you still have and empty parking abandoned in eastern downtown. Where do you get that logic? This country is a free economy and Goldman has the right to go where ever they want to. A city cant force a company to build if they dont offer a good deal.
Fix the homeless problem before we end up like San Francisco or Los Angeles. Invest in the broken down areas of Dallas. That takes priority over those new buildings. Invest in proper education of our youth to fill in Trade jobs in our metropolitan. This will set them up for successful careers. Especially in the lower income areas. We need to make sure we DO NOT end up like Chicago, San Francisco, or Los Angeles. Leadership has consequences.
The City of Dallas doesn’t control schools. School districts in Texas are completely independent from the municipal government. That’s why they’re called “Independent School District”. They run themselves and they only answer to the state. That’s also why school districts don’t follow city boundaries. I think they’re 5 or 6 school districts that cover Dallas. Also the surrounding suburban cities are dumping their homeless in the City of Dallas. Dallas cannot afford to take care of the homeless of The Metroplex. They’re now trying to get suburban cities to help pay for it. Many suburban cities don’t even have shelters. The city said the majority of the homeless aren’t actually from Dallas.
@@wageslave387 it's beautiful that we have homeless people? Have you lived in San Francisco? Have you studied the consequences of homeless ruling the cities? How about Seattle? Portland? Philadelphia? Immediately when homeless increase the values of property decrease. Crime will increase. Murder will increase. Theft will increase. Heroin will increase. Overdoses will increase. Shootings will increase. Gang violence will increase. RAPE will increase. There is nothing beautiful about allowing homeless people take over a city.
that's government jobs, not private companies. How can you expect them to give their money away like charity? It sounds like Communism, and even modern communism as China and Vietnam have don't ask private firms to do that as well. We have richest government system in the world, and every year they spend thousands of billions of dollars already, but nothing is solved. Homeless crisis is still a major problem, and gun control is still like a mess, only weapon companies are richer due to tax money.
Let’s keep adding to the skyline! On track to become the 3rd biggest metro, quickly approaching 10 million people in the area. Love a dense walkable city.
@@jorge9238 Thanks to Houston and San Antonio’s continuous annexation of land. Houston is 640 sq mi of land. San Antonio is 500 sq mi of land. Dallas is 340 sq mi of land.
@@jorge9238 I knew somebody would comment before they read. Metro is different than city. Dallas has 100 suburbs connected to one another making up up the current 7.8 million. Houston metro has 7.2 million. San Antonio is right under 2.9 million in their metro.Dallas can only grow upwards due to cities butted up next to it in all directions.
The best way to make the dumb tax payer even dumber is to errect a tall empty edifice for them to slobber over. Just go ahead and save a step by converting the new office space into residential.
Boring looking skyscrapers that will increase cost of living while not providing anything in terms of business Worth walking to. Just another American city leaning more into car culture. Maybe they prove me wrong but doubt it
@@justanothertrucker7856 The development in Uptown will be immediately next to Museum Way Station, providing close access to DART once the D2 subway is completed. Uptown is also already among the most pedestrian friendly districts in DFW, so this will probably one of the least car dependent developments in all of Texas if completed as shown.
Glad one of these buildings will at least be partly residential and a small part of that will be "affordable," but do we really need to pay some rich assholes to build themselves a fancy new office building when the downtown occupancy rate is 46%?
Downtown’s office buildings aren’t modern and that’s why they have a low occupancy. Developers are in the process of converting some of that obsolete office space into residential. Uptown in comparison is the 3rd most expensive office submarket in Texas. Only Austin is more expensive. That’s why Uptown has a demand for office space. Everything that’s been going up, has been filling up quickly.
The rich can pay for there own buildings, there are more problems in Dallas that we can use that money better elsewhere, affordable living would be much better!!! Get it together Dallas!!!
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I have lived in the DFW area for 63 years , and DENSITY SUCKS ..... Do we want to be like China and India ??? Packed like sardines ???? What idiots .... I remember wide open spaces , no traffic jams , elbow room ..... DENSITY SUCKS and anyone who doesn't get that is an imbecile ..... Overpopulation is a curse
“Bring in more jobs”? What about the case with Walmart? They raised prices to pay their employees a higher wage. Now nobody wants to work. The only lines that are open is self checkout. Where’s the human help when we need it? Lines are backed up now. I politely told an employee there was a spill. She went to talk to 5 more ladies. My mom went and got paper towels and cleaned the mess herself. Nobody came to help. Not even the young men that passed by. Then we had issues with the checkout machine and the woman tried to ignore us so then another woman had to help us. What are they paying you for?
The majority of the budget is dedicated to public safety. Throwing money at a problem isn’t gonna solve it. Fixing the underlying issues is what’s truly gonna help crime. The vast majority of the crime is occurring in high poverty areas. High poverty+no jobs=crime.
Goldman wined and dined for the yes votes and the tax payers will see no benefit for this project. If the these clowns were genuine about property value, the smart thing would be invest in the public schools.
People who moves into the city, but hate traffic, noise & expenses are weird. Move to the country if you're going to complain. That's like moving to a tropical island & complain about the ocean problem. Vanilla people are really entitled.
This is not going to end well. Taxes will go up and we the people of Dallas will receive less services for the money we will be putting out. We have a severe homeless crisis and the streets are in horrible condition. This is not a winning situation for the people of Dallas. The only winners here are the corporation and the politicians who'll get richer off this deal, and we are going to have to pay for all this shit, not them!
@@wageslave387 a lot roads are worse in India. Downtown Dallas roads aren’t perfect but to compare them to third world country roads is stupid. I used to live in a third world country and the only city that reminded me of one was certain parts of New Orleans.
I definitely get what your saying, but It’s so important for a city identity to build these type of development for several reasons. It’s just time. Dallas hasn’t built building that will alter the skyline significantly since the 80’s. It’s 2022. Let it happen and stop complaining! If they don’t build it, none of that other stuff will happen either lol!
"Bring in 5,000 high paying jobs", of which 95% will go to people from out of Metroplex and most often out of the state. That's not job creation. That's just relocating a bunch people here to Dallas. Which there isn't anything inherently wrong with that, but it's vastly different than creating 5,000 high playing jobs for Dallas residents.
That’s incorrect. The incentives are not for out of state workers. Goldman Sachs already has a large office presence in Downtown at Trammell Crow Center. They’re gonna be consolidating their offices and hiring more ppl in the city.
@@214dude2 Show me the job posting that says "North Texas residents only". I don't even think that's legal. I've never seen a job posting like that. At most you'll see, "Veterans, Stay at Home Moms, Students, etc. encouraged to apply". How is Goldman Sachs or any company going to only hire people from the city of Dallas?
@@JoshuaFrick3 it’s in the incentive package. I seen it talked about during the city council meeting. The city did that same thing with Uber. It’s Dallas residents not North Texas. Only Dallas is giving incentives.
From Houston but it seems like Dallas suburbs are much larger and most have highrises! Frisco and Plano is the next big Business District in the Dallas area.
The office space in downtown Dallas has been over 25% vacant for the last 35 years. Why are they trying to add even more office space to that? The only thing worse than simply making things worse is spending millions of dollars in tax payer money making things worse.
I visited Dallas for three days almost 3 months ago. It was OK but I didn't like flying back home out of Dallas Love airport. To hear this news, I am now in less of a rush to visit Dallas again. Something gotta be done about Dallas Love airport though!
Try DFW international if Love Field isn’t to your liking. Not a dire issue to compare to other cities. Skyscrapers are nice but with all these Los Angeles, Chicago and NYC folks moving here and driving up the costs of living, we need the city to focus on affordable housing so we don’t end up like the cities these ppl came from.
WTF? You are the only person I’ve ever heard of who didn’t like Dallas Love. Every resident of Dallas is stoked when that’s the airport they have to travel or pickup/drop off people from.
I find it funny Goldman Sachs is building more buildings to get richer and tax breaks but yet , have over 900billion dollars in debt 🤔 please explain this to me
@@xoxxobob61 I'm from Philly and it's definitely not better. San Francisco is nice. Atlanta is a definite no. It's not even that nice. Miami is solid bc it's by the water. Just got back from Chicago and the skyline isn't all that. You have the Sears Tower and that about it. There are just a lot of buildings. Dallas is unique bc of the lighting.
@@blackjesus2510 I guess we will disagree. All of the cities I mentioned have built new Skyscrapers. When was the last time Dallas built a Skyscraper downtown? 1980's?
@@xoxxobob61 Lol just because they built new skyscrapers doesn't mean they're better. Like I said, only NYC and Pittsburgh have a better skyline in my opinion. I'd put Houston over all of the skylines you mentioned and Vegas as well.
@@trevornater the problem with Ft Worth is that it sits literally right next to Dallas. Even though it’s a large city in its own right and definitely not a suburb to Dallas, it still kind of acts like one being that it’s so close. This is especially true of the eastern Ft. Worth.
As a native of Dallas, I do not like it. There are too many buildings and people here, already. I loved it when it was a fun, small city. All the fun has been squeezed out. It's a nightmare, now. Downtown used to be so fun! Now, there are shootings most weekends. Work on nearby bad neighborhoods! Look at the lowline, not the skyline. D's took over and ruined the city council. They even brought in a mayor from Hawaii. ..now I know why. Ridiculous. Bet this won't even post.
