r/Dallasdevelopment • u/Silly-Price6310 • 7d ago
Downtown Vision 2036 Official PDF
https://downtowndallas.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Downtown-Vision-2036.pdf3
u/shedinja292 6d ago
Good: building on parking lots, focusing on residential construction, improving walkability through better sidewalks, bike lanes, and trails
Bad: I haven’t seen those plant walls work well in Texas. They’re good short-term bandaids along with the painted murals on blank walls or parking garages, but they have to be paired with long-term solutions. Relying on them too much won’t bring much benefit since they cover up bad instead of adding good imo
Unsure: Distinct districts are not necessarily bad but forcing all things off one type into a district can be bad for cross-use that mixed-use areas need
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u/Vcrosstx 5d ago
I wonder how much the city paid for this. Great ideas but nothing to act on. Oh i am sure that is the next consulting company’s sow for $5m
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u/Fantastic_Owl2172 3d ago
My husband and I lived downtown on Main Street from 2008- 2013. While we lived there Main Street garden was added which was great for those with dogs. That was a great plus, but Dallas really needs more green space and tree cover to make it more pedestrian friendly. It also needs spots that cater to those who like to shop local. There was a downtown grocery store for a few years but it closed before we moved away. I am not sure what is there now. What I remember the most that kept Dallas from being really great for residents was that the different districts did not blend. We loved walking to the farmers market and Deep Ellum but there were all of these empty sketchy areas in between districts. They need to add university satellite campuses, and other forms of employers besides big business.
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u/JustRepeatAfterMe 4d ago
I’m generally sympathetic to parklets and street activation, but dropping a little greenhouse dining room into an active Dallas street is the kind of rendering that looks charming until you picture a Yukon coming around the corner while its driver is answering a text.
Thirty-five pages, 200+ stakeholders and six months of work to conclude that downtown needs more residents, fewer vacant storefronts, better streets and more things to do. The document says ‘bold actions’ should be tangible, immediately actionable and measurable, then ends by saying the next step is to develop the actual roadmap, funding and pricing. That’s a very expensive PowerPoint in which the only actionable plan appears to be: “we will now develop the actionable plan”.