Uptown Dallas’ growing skyline

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sealclubberfan@reddit

Um, I'll be honest, this isn't very dramatic and looks similar to other major cities across America.

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SkyGangg@reddit

What city, other than Atlanta, has two skylines next to each other? Uptown Dallas is like having a San Diego or San Antonio skyline next to downtown Dallas.

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Ornery_Palpitation12@reddit

San Antonio’s skyline is like half or a quarter of the size of uptown Dallas.

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It’s dramatic considering it looked like this [in the early 2000s.](https://www.city-data.com/forum/members/dallaz-1003772-albums-pictures-pic168840-img-6569.jpeg) Uptown was the largest amount of vacant land next to a major downtown in America. I can’t think of any major city that has seen this amount of change, in an area that was mostly undeveloped.

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HRApprovedUsername@reddit

Austin

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dallaz95@reddit (OP)

Austin is a CBD and it wasn’t mostly torndown and vacant either. Uptown is not a CBD and was built from scratch in the last 20 years.

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dibdudib@reddit

Man, I just want to say thank you. You always post the best responses! I've learned a lot about Dallas thanks to you.

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txchiefsfan02@reddit

RIP Hank Haney driving range. Walking there to hit balls on a Tuesday night was cool as hell.

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gumberculesy@reddit

I’m standing in McKinney&Olive right now- the 2014 map is bizarre to see! I grew up in Dallas but I forgot what uptown used to look like. Thank you for this.

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BeenJamminMon@reddit

That's just Uptown. The photo only has two buildings in it considered Downtown on the far right-hand edge. This is a fairly.narrow.view.of the Dallas urban core and skyscapers/skyline.

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Organic-Astronaut559@reddit

I have been a renter in uptown Dallas for the past two years. I graduated college in 2022 and was attracted to the area because it’s walkable, tons of college graduates, clean, and safe. I’m moving out of state next month, but I was SUPER surprised my renewal offer from my complex was only $50 more than what I am paying for now. Tons of new construction happening, especially the new building next to Whole Foods. Excited to come back one day and see how things have changed!

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NintendogsWithGuns@reddit

Only problem with Uptown is that it’s 95% transplants that work in finance. You’ll be hard pressed to find a native Dallasite that lives there. As such, it doesn’t have much in the way of unique culture, unless pumpkin spice lattes are your thing.

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Organic-Astronaut559@reddit

I’m a transplant that works in tech. 😂 100% agree with this comment. I was deep in the dating apps when I first moved to uptown and did not meet a single native Dallasite.

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NintendogsWithGuns@reddit

Most of the natives are in Oak Cliff, Lakewood / Lake Highlands, and the suburbs. Uptown is sorta known for being…..pretentious.

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Skunk_Gunk@reddit

Didn’t realize growing up in Dallas vs elsewhere made you not pretentious and cultured.

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NintendogsWithGuns@reddit

It’s not that being from somewhere else makes you pretentious or uncultured. No, it’s that 90% of the people that move to Uptown chose to major in Finance, Accounting, or Business. You know, the milquetoast majors that didn’t need financial aid because mommy and daddy paid for college. THAT’S what Uptown is like.

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SadAdministration438@reddit

Again that’s an overgeneralization of an entire area. You’re probably just salty that you can’t live in the actual densified area.

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NintendogsWithGuns@reddit

Honey, I live in Lakewood. Trust me, it’s more desirable than Uptown and quite outside of your price range.

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not-actual69_@reddit

Crying about pretentious people and then you type this shit out? 😂😂😂 it’s Lakewood. Calm down.

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SadAdministration438@reddit

Okay? Like I am a young student and live in Plano, better than your Lakewoods area. You have a lake but that’s it. Uptown (and Plano) > Lakewoods.

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Skunk_Gunk@reddit

This comment is more pretentious than anything I saw in 5 years of living in uptown

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BootyBurrito420@reddit

Understatement of the century

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zeroonetw@reddit

Not so fast… I haven’t found any natives in Far North Dallas either.

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SadAdministration438@reddit

Man I hope after university to live in Uptown sometime. Location-wise it’s pretty dang good overall.

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Organic-Astronaut559@reddit

You got this. It’s pretty sweet once you get to the other side! 💪

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SadAdministration438@reddit

Civil engineering (hoping to specialize in transportation engineering) so urban planning has been a major interest of mine.

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Organic-Astronaut559@reddit

Fellow STEM major! I studied computer science. Best of luck and don’t give up! I was close to. lol.

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SadAdministration438@reddit

Thanks, it’s pretty a hard major! Keep living up in Uptown. 😎

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JustRepeatAfterMe@reddit

Wonder if the super tall will ever be built in the Goldman Sachs development? Or Harwood No. 12? Uptown needs some height.

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dallaz95@reddit (OP)

There was never a supertall proposed for that area. I highly doubt one can be built. They only got approval for a buildings up to 890 ft. There’s height restrictions in the area and it was mostly likely never be very tall.

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JustRepeatAfterMe@reddit

Ah, 890 is a little short, but it was approved up to 80 stories which would still be tall in Dallas if they get anywhere close to that. If they ever proceed with Harwood 12 hopefully it will have improved the design a bit.

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conscwp@reddit

Some of the original proposals for the Goldman development included an 80-storey building that would've been a supertall. Renderings of it were shared around by news outlets, but it didn't get much farther than renderings I don't think.

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dallaz95@reddit (OP)

That was never a supertall. That was an 80 story concept with zoning up to 890 ft. Goldman Sachs building was never going to be 80 stories. The news outlasts got it wrong. I watched the city council meetings for the project. That other project was a concept as well by Harwood. They tried to see if they could get zoning for a project that big, but it was denied by the FAA.

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