What Will Demolishing Dallas’ Highway 345 Do For Downtown’s Real Estate Market?
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As you’ve no doubt heard, there’s a movement afoot to tear down Highway 345 — a stretch of elevated asphalt that spans from Deep Ellum and north to Woodall Rogers Freeway. Doing so, proponents claim, will connect the east side of the city center to downtown and create a more walkable environment.
I’m all for more walkable neighborhoods, especially in our urban core, but I do want to know how we can make this work when projections show that the population of Dallas will double in a matter of a few decades, putting strain on our housing inventory and transportation infrastructure. Basically, just tearing down a highway isn’t going to cut it.
We should be thinking about density with a more connected mass transit system, and I think that’s the main selling point for demolishing the highway. Not only will it bring a slower thoroughfare through downtown, but it will also create more real estate that can be developed into mixed-use buildings, as well as offering a hub for bringing back the streetcar to downtown Dallas (and yes, we should definitely bring streetcars back). We’ll need massive reinvestment in transportation and infrastructure to make it work, but where will the money come from?
What do you think of the plan?
Dislike.
Urban planner guy ticked me off when he dismissed East Dallas people who use it "like once a year, to get to Houston". Love it when people make these sweeping statements when the changes will not impact them in any way.
Patrick Kennedy lives downtown, a few blocks from IH-345. The Deep Ellum Community Association has publicly asked TxDOT to consider removing it. Downtown Dallas, Inc. has done the same. There is clearly a lot of support to remove I-345 among people that live the closest to it.
I know. Will be doing a Q&A with Patrick on this… after my live-changing meeting with Andres, and after being in Atlanta, I am more dedicated than ever to making this city what I call WORKABLE. I know Patrick likes WALKABLE. But you cannot walk from downtown to Valley View– excuse me, Midtown– and Glen Eagles. Dallas is a sprawling metroplis but we can make the downtown so attractive and workable people will totally want to be there!
Okay Mike, but you live in Brooklyn. Maybe Patrick has some great ideas, but not getting that from this article. There are a lot of urban planners/developers in Dallas who have made big money on tax funded projects. I live in a very bike/walk friendly part of Dallas, but this is a huge metro area and we just don't have the transit infrastructure to start tearing down major access.
Mike, with all due respect…I am in NYC at LEAST once a year (you know, family and all). Peter Luger's is a favorite, but sort of inconvenient from the Upper West Side. I want to be involved in making this easier for me.
Have my back peeps. with @[1047959135:2048:Kathleen Brant] @[100000181892254:2048:Jeffrey Swan Jones] @[57301362:2048:Elizabeth Swan Green] @[1480057364:2048:Becky Brown] @[100001645174710:2048:Veronica E. Jones]
Dislike.
Urban planner guy ticked me off when he dismissed East Dallas people who use it "like once a year, to get to Houston". Love it when people make these sweeping statements when the changes will not impact them in any way.
Patrick Kennedy lives downtown, a few blocks from IH-345. The Deep Ellum Community Association has publicly asked TxDOT to consider removing it. Downtown Dallas, Inc. has done the same. There is clearly a lot of support to remove I-345 among people that live the closest to it.
I know. Will be doing a Q&A with Patrick on this… after my live-changing meeting with Andres, and after being in Atlanta, I am more dedicated than ever to making this city what I call WORKABLE. I know Patrick likes WALKABLE. But you cannot walk from downtown to Valley View– excuse me, Midtown– and Glen Eagles. Dallas is a sprawling metroplis but we can make the downtown so attractive and workable people will totally want to be there!
Okay Mike, but you live in Brooklyn. Maybe Patrick has some great ideas, but not getting that from this article. There are a lot of urban planners/developers in Dallas who have made big money on tax funded projects. I live in a very bike/walk friendly part of Dallas, but this is a huge metro area and we just don't have the transit infrastructure to start tearing down major access.
Mike, with all due respect…I am in NYC at LEAST once a year (you know, family and all). Peter Luger's is a favorite, but sort of inconvenient from the Upper West Side. I want to be involved in making this easier for me.
Have my back peeps. with @[1047959135:2048:Kathleen Brant] @[100000181892254:2048:Jeffrey Swan Jones] @[57301362:2048:Elizabeth Swan Green] @[1480057364:2048:Becky Brown] @[100001645174710:2048:Veronica E. Jones]
Yeah, you cannot just eliminate traffic. It goes somewhere especially when we have so little mass transit in Dallas.
Counterintuitively, a good bit of traffic does disappear when these highways are torn down. There are numerous reasons including people choosing to be more efficient in the trips they take, ride-sharing, people switching more trips to biking/walking/buses, etc.
Here's more on the phenomenon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_traffic
Yeah, you cannot just eliminate traffic. It goes somewhere especially when we have so little mass transit in Dallas.
Counterintuitively, a good bit of traffic does disappear when these highways are torn down. There are numerous reasons including people choosing to be more efficient in the trips they take, ride-sharing, people switching more trips to biking/walking/buses, etc.
Here's more on the phenomenon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_traffic
Not an easy question to answer especially when it's Dallas 4th shot at "Urbanizing" their downtown. This time it's crucial because the growth is PHENOMENAL. As a Realtor I closed my 2012 book with more foreigners than American clients and every single one was company transfer.
Not an easy question to answer especially when it's Dallas 4th shot at "Urbanizing" their downtown. This time it's crucial because the growth is PHENOMENAL. As a Realtor I closed my 2012 book with more foreigners than American clients and every single one was company transfer.
Since the Trinity River Corridor is stuck in bureaucratic limbo, this would be the next great opportunity to reinvent Dallas. Downtown would gain thousands more residents and the city would greatly increase the tax base.
Since the Trinity River Corridor is stuck in bureaucratic limbo, this would be the next great opportunity to reinvent Dallas. Downtown would gain thousands more residents and the city would greatly increase the tax base.
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