Construction started recently on the 42-story, $200-million Museum Tower in the downtown Dallas Arts District. The tower will include 122 condominium homes, with a construction timeline of less than three years. Residence prices start at $1.1 million. A rendering shows the 42-story, $200 million Museum Tower in Dallas’ Downtown Arts District that Austin Commercial will build. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The project is 100%-owned by Dallas Police and Fire Pension System. Dallas-based Gromatzky Dupree and Associates is the executive architect of Museum Tower. The interiors are designed by Dallas-based Bodron+Fruit and Booziotis & Co. Architects. Features include floor-to-ceiling
As part of their review of agency finances, Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials are reviewing funding strategies for capital projects scheduled beyond the current 37-mi light-rail expansion. The projected shortfall in sales tax revenue will result in the indefinite delay in the third section of the Orange Line, from Irving to Terminal A at DFW Airport, the second Downtown Dallas alignment and the Blue Line extension from Ledbetter Station to the UNT Dallas campus. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The completion of the Green Line from Pleasant Grove to Carrollton and the new Lake Highlands Station in December; the
Work continues on the $32-million one-mi project to raise Northwest Highway six to eight ft to reduce flooding issues in the area. Construction began in November 2009 and is slated for an April 2012 completion. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" TxDOT and the city of Dallas partnered to include a special aesthetics package, with funding from the city and Dallas County for additional stonework, railing on a bike trail and allowance for hike and bike trails in TxDOT’s right-of-way. Dallas-based Rebcon is re-constructing the Northwest Highway bridges as part of the project. A roadway at the intersection will be
Officials recently launched a study of Austin’s MoPac (SH Loop 1) to determine if two new express lanes could improve mobility. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The MoPac Improvement Project would add an express lane in each direction between Cesar Chavez and Parmer Lane and construction of sound walls. The construction cost is estimated at $220 million. The study has the backing of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, the Texas Dept. of Transportation, the city of Austin and Capitol Metro. The goal is to provide un-tolled, congestion-free travel to public transit buses and registered vanpools. Individual motorists would
More than 12 months ago, Terex moved production of its minerals processing and asphalt paving lines from its Cedar Rapids, Iowa, plant to Oklahoma City. Photo: Terex Terex recently marked its first year of occupying its new space in its the new Oklahoma City facility. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The Oklahoma City facility, with 675,000 sq ft of manufacturing space, is one of the largest Terex sites in the world. The company made significant investments at the site to implement lean manufacturing principles. The Terex Oklahoma City campus also includes a 30,000-sq-ft, high-tech training facility. The center features
Occupants began moving in at the corner of 2nd and Congress Ave. in Austin at the Austonian in June. The tallest residential building in Austin and west of the Mississippi, the 57-story Austonian was designed by Houston-based Ziegler Cooper. Dallas-based Balfour Beatty Construction was the general contractor. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras"
The mission-critical utilities plant that will serve Dallas’ new $1.2-billion Parkland health care campus, owned by the Parkland Health & Hospital System, will include design work by Dallas-based KAI Texas, which was chosen to design the exterior shell for the plant’s prime project engineer, Dallas-based Burns & McDonnell. The central utilities plant will integrate with the overall campus master plan design by Omaha-based HDR Architecture and Dallas-based Corgan Associates Inc. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" KAI will lead the programming to design the interior space that will be occupied by staff at the central plant. Parkland plans to break
Construction of the first building on the new Texas A&M Health Science Center campus is complete, marking the beginning of the consolidated medical training and research complex in Bryan. Satterfield & Pontikes Construction of Houston completed the Health Professions Education Building, which was designed by Dallas-based FKP Architects. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Construction on the 128,159-sq-ft HPEB facility was completed in about less than 20 months. S&P also completed the 12,565-sq-ft central physical plant; and is building the Medical Research and Education Building, the third building on the HSC campus, with completion slated for later this year. The
The Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority approved nearly $2 million for maintenance dredging of the Authority’s berths at its terminals along the Houston Ship Channel and a $68,000 Texas Transportation Institute study to evaluate the economic impacts of the lack of dredging. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Commissioners authorized a $410,000 contract with Xirrus Inc. of Thousand Oaks, Calif., for wireless network hardware, software, hardware support and software support for Barbours Cut Container Terminal for five years. Commissioners also authorized a $600,000 increase to the capital budget and payment of up to that amount to the
Port San Antonio, the major multimodal transportation facility and economic development entity created in 1996 to redevelop the former Kelly Air Force Base, recently won the Base Redevelopment Community of the Year award. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The Association of Defense Communities, a national organization serving communities impacted by base closures, recognized Port San Antonio’s efforts to transform the 1,880-acre site of the former Kelly Air Force Base into a center of commerce and innovative real estate and business development, and giant economic engine for the entire region. Port San Antonio’s real estate and business development efforts have
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