New York, LA, Chicago, Dallas. That's the official numbers released over the weekend. From 2017 to 2018, Dallas added 131,000 new residents;since 2010 the area added more than one million new residents.
Today, since it was Easter, the lake would be a nightmare just getting around so I decided to point the car toward Deep Ellum and take the south Dallas route over to Lamar and come in the back door to Reunion Tower, downtown and made it over to Trinity Groves to Sylvan. The flood gate off the bridge was closed so made it down to Irving Blvd. and the Design District circuit and outbound again to Mockingbird; made the southern loop around Love Field, out Marsh to Forest and back roaded it into the drive way. For the first time in a long time, every spoke of the wagon wheel circuit had something going on in major changes. Every single spoke. I've been doing this for 10 years and have never seen all the spokes having something major happening in all the spokes. So, today was a good day pretty much for building the storytelling of this blog.
While making the tour, there are some things that deserve mention but for one reason or another, an image can not be published. Almost twenty years ago, now, I worked the Deep Ellum area and called on the sales department for the Dallas Mavericks. The project came through channels from the CEO of a Fortune One Hundred. As a result, a grant was secured from the Fortune One Hundred for the Deep Ellum Foundation.
While I go to Deep Ellum on a regular basis with one of the spokes, I don't usually go by the Mavs building there as it is a bit off the Elm Main Commerce Streets that flow from Deep Ellum into Downtown and through the tunnels at Dealey Plaza. But, today, I discovered that Dirk has officially made a wall in Deep Ellum. It was is considered street art officially, but the mural was signed and while people do use the image, my editors will not take murals like that any longer, even as editorial and by rights, it is an editorial image with Dirk.It's kind of like a catch-22 situation.
A big crane is out side First Baptist, multi-block campus downtown. They just finished about $130 Million expansion and the crane is a sure sign that another project is at hand for the mega church.
One of the near by 10-story open-.parking garage is getting new louvers in an architectural cover to reduce the 'eye sore' of an open 10-story garage with all the construction going on. Dallas Museum of Art had a massive tent on the Ross Avenue side. The Belo Building had the second architectural awning not only on the ground floor around the building but also on the roof as well. There is a new mid rise building north of Fountain Plaza ( that's the building that has a pointed design), Union Station's been renamed for Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson.
For the first time, I got to see the new "small" houses that the city built to some of the homeless. Actually, I wouldn't mind having one of them, myself!! There is a company in Garland that builds them on trailers. I've been looking at them and actully think that I would even like one of those.
Today, since it was Easter, the lake would be a nightmare just getting around so I decided to point the car toward Deep Ellum and take the south Dallas route over to Lamar and come in the back door to Reunion Tower, downtown and made it over to Trinity Groves to Sylvan. The flood gate off the bridge was closed so made it down to Irving Blvd. and the Design District circuit and outbound again to Mockingbird; made the southern loop around Love Field, out Marsh to Forest and back roaded it into the drive way. For the first time in a long time, every spoke of the wagon wheel circuit had something going on in major changes. Every single spoke. I've been doing this for 10 years and have never seen all the spokes having something major happening in all the spokes. So, today was a good day pretty much for building the storytelling of this blog.
While making the tour, there are some things that deserve mention but for one reason or another, an image can not be published. Almost twenty years ago, now, I worked the Deep Ellum area and called on the sales department for the Dallas Mavericks. The project came through channels from the CEO of a Fortune One Hundred. As a result, a grant was secured from the Fortune One Hundred for the Deep Ellum Foundation.
While I go to Deep Ellum on a regular basis with one of the spokes, I don't usually go by the Mavs building there as it is a bit off the Elm Main Commerce Streets that flow from Deep Ellum into Downtown and through the tunnels at Dealey Plaza. But, today, I discovered that Dirk has officially made a wall in Deep Ellum. It was is considered street art officially, but the mural was signed and while people do use the image, my editors will not take murals like that any longer, even as editorial and by rights, it is an editorial image with Dirk.It's kind of like a catch-22 situation.
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| I-30 "the canyon" on the south side of downtown before it hits the I-35E horseshoe |
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| The renaming was done in good taste (pardon the punk WP)Wolfgang operates the restaurant in Reunion Tower, just across the tracks, but you can use the tunnel here to get there.. |
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| This was built as the Belo Corportation HQ, the operators of WFAA-TV and Dallas Morning News. The Belo Mansion is cross town on Ross Avenue. It was also a funeral home and Clyde Barrows of famed Bonnie and Clyde lay in state there. It's now home to the Bar Association as in Lawyers. |
A big crane is out side First Baptist, multi-block campus downtown. They just finished about $130 Million expansion and the crane is a sure sign that another project is at hand for the mega church.
One of the near by 10-story open-.parking garage is getting new louvers in an architectural cover to reduce the 'eye sore' of an open 10-story garage with all the construction going on. Dallas Museum of Art had a massive tent on the Ross Avenue side. The Belo Building had the second architectural awning not only on the ground floor around the building but also on the roof as well. There is a new mid rise building north of Fountain Plaza ( that's the building that has a pointed design), Union Station's been renamed for Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson.
For the first time, I got to see the new "small" houses that the city built to some of the homeless. Actually, I wouldn't mind having one of them, myself!! There is a company in Garland that builds them on trailers. I've been looking at them and actully think that I would even like one of those.
