Scott Beck: What's Happening With the Former Valley View Midtown Development

[@FrankinDallas]

We'll be walking on the surface of Mars before this project is completed.

[@WilliamJones-sf5pt]

@@FrankinDallas This area is unique in how it was once the luxury capital of the universe. There were once four malls competing within a 1.5 square mile area if Sakowitz Village is accounted for. There was once a Bloomingdales at Valley View, a Saks and a Marshall Fields at The Gallery Dallas, a Neiman Marcus and a Lord & Taylor at Preston Wood Town Mall, and a Sakowitz at Sakowitz Village. Add to that the large number of Furniture and Furnishing stores west of the Galleria in Farmers Branch and the 200 restaurants and 3000 hotel rooms in Addison and one had a ridiculous amount of retail. The city of Dallas has never helped this area, but perpetuated the slum it is fast becoming. Plain and simple.

[@SicemBear06]

Yep. Look at the history of “Dallas Midtown” stories. Every year is “we will break ground next year”. Beck, Please sell to a real developer!

[@WilliamJones-sf5pt]

@@SicemBear06 What is going on below the conscience is how in nearby Farmers Branch and Addison other developments are continuing. Really, to make that development work, they need to find a major corporation or two to relocate and allow them to build low-rise "camp asses." If I ever hear the announcement of construction on another tall empty office building in Dallas, I will gag up all my intestines.

[@WilliamJones-sf5pt]

The area is still developing. It is just spreading in from the west and north from the respective cities of Farmers Branch and Addison. The city of Dallas is just impossible to deal with and has been for fifty plus years. Can't get there from here. R.I.P. (TAPS!)

[@pbmagnet4]

Well said Beck

[@clarenceanderson9959]

Yes bring new jobs and restaurants and hotels and retail to this area

[@WilliamJones-sf5pt]

If they want to develop the area, quit trying to build lots of tall empty office buildings. To get corporations to anchor the development, let them build campuses.

[@214dude2]

Who said it will be office buildings? The zoning allows for buildings up to 40 stories. Campuses are the opposite of an urban downtown-like development. Legacy West - a suburban-style office park isn’t what they’re going for.

[@WilliamJones-sf5pt]

@@214dude2 Good luck with making a development work without attracting a corporation or two as anchors. Personally, why is the city of Dallas sticking its nose into it? Those amateur real estate experts are trying to gentrify the whole city across the board which, if you think about it, is just the opposite of gentrification. If no corporations, no development. Might as well just break it up piecemeal and let it develop as unplanned in-fill. Scott Beck needs to leave his legacy in Frisco where he can find friends.

[@WilliamJones-sf5pt]

@@214dude2 And if you desire a New York style urban area, that has never been Dallas. After they did build a lot of skyscrapers in downtown, companies never came to fill them going on forty years now. The beauty of Dallas is it's many horizontally built iconic shopping centers and not a lot of tall empty office buildings.

[@arabiantxn]

An incompetent police department crime and theft.