Virtually Speaking, a Three-Dimensional Tour of "A Sustainable City Block for Dallas"

By Robert Wilonsky Mon., Jul. 6 2009 at 9:14 AM

Categories: News

We've seen plenty of conceptual renderings of the Re:Vision Dallas finalists, but this morning, North Carolina-based Little Diversified Architectural Consulting provides us with a very impressive video showcasing their self-sustaining downtown block, The Entangled Bank. Should Central Dallas Community Development Corporation and bcWORKSHOP proceed with this project -- which envisions a self-sustaining development behind Dallas City Hall breaking ground some time next year -- there's a very good chance The Entangled Bank, or at least some version of it, will occupy what's now a parking lot.

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The City of Dallas is broke and cant possibley subsidize such a project. The cost of this project is just out of the reach given the current state of the City of Dallas' financial affairs. Economic Development department will kill the deal, as usual!
Metroplexual says, "People tossing about terms like sustainable, diverse entangling, greywater ponds and all that implies don't know Dallas very well. Think Electrolytes....but that's another story." I think that's the point. To build this in the most unlikely of neighborhoods that has nothing to lose. It can only go up from here and it will!
Well, I don't know what's grabbed Metroplexual's, but I liked it. I would love to move downtown, I just can't quite afford it. in 15 years, we'll all be wishing we bought in downtown back when the real estate values were just unreasonable.
Laughable and not so feasable for our fair city, at least anytime soon. Early clues it won't happen: Get off the grid? Would cost way more than TXU services for the foreseeable future. Grain Farming? Perhaps some tomatoes, flowers, herbs, unless they're including a brewery and a bakery grain makes no sense. Farmer's Market and Fuel City are only short Sedgeway rides away. Pasture? Think manure, flatulance, noise, flies and cowbirds, not to mention farm animals theirownselves. What about weeds, mosquitoes, pidgeons, grackles, rats and bats? Where's parking and where are 7-11s? It's not named for Cesar Chavez. At least not yet. People tossing about terms like sustainable, diverse entangling, greywater ponds and all that implies don't know Dallas very well. Think Electrolytes....but that's another story. Take all the benefits of those "features" and apply the costs to "sustain" them, add the cost of bribes and birthday gifts for local officials and divide by the number of units for sale. You'll find that the people who could afford to live there aren't the folks likely to herd goats and cultivate grain in their spare time nor deny themselves a convenienct Slurpee or 6-pack in Dallas summers. This is all in one city block? Maybe it can be a colony for the Leppert 3000 robots and....

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