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Xero Project Set To Green the City of Dallas

inhabitat.com — An incredible plan to connect the city of Dallas with greenways while bringing local agriculture, public orchards, community gardens and food stalls into the city is on the way. The project focuses around an energy building that will include a rainwater collection system, solar panels and planted screens that will produce on-site energy and food.

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  • ethanator1088, on 06/10/2009, -1/+14The human mind does not stop to amaze me. Those structures/ideas were awesome!
  • WordsnCollision, on 06/10/2009, -2/+13In related news, Xenu Project Set To Fleece the City of Dallas.
  • mikek814, on 06/10/2009, -0/+10let's hope this type of thing will continue and it's not just hype
  • sjbdallas, on 06/10/2009, -0/+8I live here and am only aware of their plan to spend millions of dollars turning the filthy sinkhole called the Trinity River into some kind of park/greenbelt/highway.
  • keloyd, on 06/10/2009, -0/+8We have already made modest progress in this direction. The architect has already made several buildings here that look quirky and half-finished, but in a good way. The only barrier is some toxic ethnic politics. Outsiders are shaken down for "consulting fees" for city permits by retired councilmen and others with the ear of a morally accomodating member of the city council. A recent developer came out looking *good* when he had the cheek to use the word "shakedown" when some city wiseguys visited their offices. Three councilmen went to the media bleating about racism. Afterwards, everyone sided with the developer and they had to cash in some political capital to avoid jail.
  • Lederhosed, on 06/10/2009, -0/+7I grew up in Dallas, and am waiting to hear how this whole thing will be hijacked and turned into something that makes a few developers rich while totally sucking. What ever happened to that proposal to build a huge park along the Trinity River, one that would have united the totally neglected neighborhoods on the other side of the river with downtown? Last I heard, it had been scrapped in favor of an expressway.
  • eraofk00l, on 06/10/2009, -1/+7D-Town, represent!
  • cannonball, on 06/10/2009, -0/+6Dallas? Green?

    I'll believe it when I see it.
  • frequentFlyer, on 06/10/2009, -0/+4I love me some Dallas.
  • ayeroxor, on 06/10/2009, -1/+4You can tell it's modern, because it's misspelled to increase the awesomeness.
  • d3dm, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2From the immortal words of Hank Hill..

    "Dallas? I don't want you goin' to Dallas at all. That place is crawlin' with crack-heads and debutantes, and half of 'em play for the Cowboys"

  • inactive, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2I doubt it will ever happen, its just another one of those architect fantasies.
    even here in grotty toronto we have had about 10 of them for the waterfront and they end up building about 50 feet of "wavy boardwalk"
  • LiquidIse, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2I wont hold my breath.
  • Trigonometron, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2The neglected neighborhoods are now full of gays, which means in 5-10 years, it will be THE place to live. (If you know anything about real estate, you won't digg me down).
    The Trinity River project is still alive, but it's shenanigans as you have stated. Although it's not scrapped in favor of the tollroad, it's now combined with the tollroad.

    Go to Dallas Observer for some decent multi-year coverage of that thing.
  • DharmaDog, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2Looks cool, and I'd like to see it happen, but I have no hope that it will. Once local government and their politics get involved we'll end up with a small plot of land with a single tree, maybe a trying-too-hard to-be-funky statue, perhaps a commemorative plaque made from recycled material.

    The other problem is that except for some urban transplants from the northeast, Texans like land. And it's plentiful and cheap in Texas. It's hard to convince many of us to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars for a glorified apartment (a.k.a. condo).
  • OutlawSundown, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2It will probably somehow involve indiscriminate destruction of numerous historical buildings and neighborhoods in the process if they even do go through with it. But honestly I expect it all to fall apart anyway seeing as the Dallas City Council couldn't govern their way out of a paper sack. Not to mention a few of them will try fleecing the project.
  • Trigonometron, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2what the hell are you talking about...sources, names, plz.
    /dallas resident
  • frequentFlyer, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1damned if we do, damned if we don't, right?
  • DirtyVicar, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1Well, this ought to be a nice amenity for me when I get $800K and move into a trendy downtown condo -- or if I own those condos.

    Weren't they planning some hip thing like this along the Greenville Ave rail line between Plano and Richardson? Whatever happened to that?
  • Trigonometron, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1They are building the lake highlands thing you speak of, takes time. First step was to demolish about 15000 apartments. Gentrification FTW.
  • inactive, on 06/10/2009, -1/+2True, but they gotta make the solar panels more aesthetically pleasing.
  • pathouston22, on 06/10/2009, -1/+2Your own human mind amazes your own human mind.

    Fascinating.
  • raza7370, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1wow.........it is a beautiful.........
  • CheesyPoofs, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1Who knows dude who knows... I would love for the city to clean up. I work in the west end down town and it has just gotten kinda dirty down here. it would be nice to see them clean up what they already have before the city just starts adding new structures.
  • bdiggitty, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1Well where they're putting it is actually a really ghetto area of Dallas. I remember seeing a report about the areas in Dallas where the most murders and thefts occur and they tend to occur in the area in which this project is planned to exist. So I guess there will be unintended positives to this project.
  • jshhmr, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1I'm in real estate, and you are right. Lower Greenville is one the BEST neighborhoods that Dallas has. Even old 2 bed 1 bath homes are going for a high price. An investor of mine made a KILLING last year on one of his Greenville rehabs.
  • OutlawSundown, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1Oh yeah they'll be massively overpriced.
  • regeya, on 06/10/2009, -3/+4Cue the pseudo-conservatives screaming about the financial burden...
  • keloyd, on 06/12/2009, -0/+1I was writing from memory, but here is a citation from the Dallas Morning News: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/l ...

    IIRC the Dallas Observer and one of the local TV news stations covered it too.
  • Chalks777, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1Buried because "Xero". Really? Xero?

    *facepalm*
  • partrow, on 06/10/2009, -1/+2"Green" in title = bury.
  • inactive, on 06/12/2009, -0/+1next project - making the people not suck
  • meed, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1over the last two decades I have lived in North Texas (where Dallas is) we have had nearly almost 10 years of drought and then many that were border line droughts. Green space? are you serious? I hope they create green spaces that don't need irrigation in the summer months
  • jshhmr, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1Dallas has always said one thing and done the other. Watching the news every night, I am glad I live in Fort Worth. Dallas is so corrupt, I don't see how this project will ever come into fruition.
  • Trigonometron, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1Fair Park is actually part of this whole thing, it's the bottom corner of the project. Especially when you think about it in conjunction with DART, the green line runs exactly through fair park, downtown, love field, and on up to the nw suburbs.
  • rumbl3r, on 06/11/2009, -0/+1Yeah because a sports team winning a championship is more important than a healthy planet...
  • OutlawSundown, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1Yeah it looks really weird with all of it torn down. A giant blank space where there should be buildings.
  • OutlawSundown, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1Guessing you don't read the Observer.
  • OutlawSundown, on 06/10/2009, -0/+1More likely the city council will fleece them.
  • oozoo, on 06/10/2009, -2/+2how about we focus on one project at a time Dallas.....

    Fair Park, then the DART Rail System, getting rid of racist cops, and getting a sports team with a championship!



  • jkash23686, on 06/10/2009, -1/+1Way to steal my companies name which just happens to be Incorporated.
  • lololjessi, on 06/10/2009, -0/+0Dallas digger up in here.
  • fr33dan, on 06/10/2009, -1/+1Looks interesting but I can't read the name and not think Linkin Park.
  • MetalHead73, on 06/10/2009, -8/+1No! Wait! I thought Texas was full of retards and rednecks?!?!

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