State Fair and Uptown Fest

Uptown Dallas Today

  The State Fair of Texas begins Friday.The parade is in downtown Dallas from about noon time till 1:30pm . Expect delays and road closures during this time. More road delays will be on Mc Kinney Ave on Saturday morning till about 11:30am. The Mc kinney Ave Trolley will have there 20 year celebration parade on Saturday morning. This will be followed by The All About Uptown Festival . Should be a very exciting weekend all over Dallas .  

  The Dallas Amateur Radio Club will be broadcasting all day Saturday to ham operators all over the world. They will be broadcasting live from the MATA trolley car barn located at 3153 Oak Grove. Follow the tracks down Bowen,from Mc Kinney Ave, you can not miss the car barn. 

  Deals at the State Fair / bring an empty Dr Pepper can on Tuesdays get in for $3 / 3 cans of food on Wednesdays and get in for $1 / free on Thursdays if you are 60 or older/bring a 20 oz Coca Cola product on Thursday and get in for  $4 this also works tomorrow September 25th opening day / Mc Donald's has  $4 off coupons and they can be used anytime of the week. Soft drinks and water for $1 at the DAR Colonial House next door to the Women's Museum.

See you at the Great State Fair of Texas !  

All About Uptown

Uptown Dallas Today

  The All About Uptown Festival will be this weekend Saturday September 26th. Looks like fun and there will lots of things to do on a great fall weekend. The Mc Kinney Ave Trolley will have a parade on Saturday morning celebrating the trolley and Rosies birthday. The Crescent Rose "Rosie" is 100 years old this year. 

  Most of the Trolleys have a new paint job and the name of the trolleys are painted on the front ,or back, depending on where you are standing. Rosie looks good for one hundred years old .She is a little slow and noisey , but, looks great. The parade of course will delay operations on Saturday so expect a few morning delays.

  The State Street Spirits store has closed. They expect to reopen as a neighborhood wine bar very soon. We wish them luck. They  have been at this location in Uptown for many years. Roccos Pizza has now moved to the Quadrangle in case you were wondering. Arcodoro Pomodoro has moved to 100 Crescent Court Ste 100. 

  See you at the Great State Fair of Texas !

       

The Corner of Uptown and Victory

Uptown Dallas Today

  The Perot Museum of Nature and Science will be built on 4.7 acre plot at the corner of Field and Woodall Rodgers.This is the corner where Uptown meets Victory Park . If you have seen the renderings this will be a very impressive building. World class with out any doubt.

  The Perot Museum will cost about 185 million dollars of which the Perot family have given 50 million dollars. The building will be 150 feet tall and have 180,000 square feet of space.Groundbreaking should be near the end of 2009 with completion in 2013. A large scale model will be available for viewing at the office on Field and Woodall Rodgers in the near future. 

  Woodall Rodgers has become the place to be in Dallas. The Calatrava bridge , the Arts District ,several new high rises , the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park and now this wonderful museum. With the Perot Museum and the Convention Center Hotel , the Woodall Rodgers Park and Mc Kinney Ave Trolley expansion downtown Dallas will be very busy for the next several years. Just a reminder that Harwood,at Woodall Rodgers, will be closed for ever sometime in October. 

  Thank You to the Perot Family and the other contributors for this amazing building.              

Target Goes Hybrid

Uptown Dallas Today

  I am sure most of you have noticed the major changes occurring at Cityplace Target. If not then this will be exciting news. Target is going Hybrid. The store is being change so that it will include a grocery store. The store will not be as big as a Super Target,but, will carry frozen foods,meats and produce. That will be in addition to all the other foods they already carry. Competition is always a good thing and I am sure they will compete with Walmart Neighborhood Store. Albertsons will come in a distant third in this grocery competition. The remodel will be completed soon and I for one can not wait. 

  The Green Line is open for business. I noticed Monday morning lots of Baylor medical workers using the train. I am sure this Friday and Saturday night the Deep Ellum And Baylor station will be very busy.If you do not want to pay for a cab ride home the witching hour is midnight. The route to take is Cityplace to Pearl ,on Red or Blue, and Pearl to Baylor on the Green Line . Go in reverse on the way home or look for the pumpkin. 

    

To Fair Park from Uptown

Uptown Dallas Today

  Monday  September 14th DART will begin Green Line operations. You will be able to go from Cityplace,the Uptown station, to Pearl station and transfer to the Green line. Each station along this route is about 2 minutes apart. 

  For those of you that work at Baylor Hospital there will be a stop just for you. For those of you that like Deep Ellum there will be a stop for you. For me there is a stop at Fair Park in fact it is at the front door. Thanks DART. The MLK stop is the last stop on the Green Line for now. It too is just a hop, skip and a jump to a front gate at Fair Park.  

 Tickets can be had for as little as $4 per day and can be used almost anywhere DART ,excluding express bus routes, goes. DART express all day passes are $5. A regional all day pass is $7.50 for those of you that are coming from Ft Worth. Parking at the State Fair this year will be at least $10. I will let you do the math. 

  As you leave the tunnel , from Cityplace, remember to get off at Pearl station. Although if you live near AAC you can catch the Green line at Victory station. That is on the west side of ACC the TRE also stops at this station.When you get to Deep Ellum station check out the 38 foot Traveling Man sculpture,flickr now has many photos, a soon to be instant hit for anyone with a camera. If you need caffeine you can stop at Baylor station and partake in Its a Grind Coffeehouse. A very good place I would recommend. 

   We get to enjoy the new short Green line for about a year. In December 2010 Dart will complete the Green line and you will be able to connect with the A Train in Carrollton and continue to Downtown Denton. This should be a hit with the UNT students. 

   Soon you may not need a car in Dallas !                       

Fall Gallery Walk

Uptown Dallas Today

  The DADA Fall Gallery Walk will be this Saturday September 12th from 2-8pm. Check out the web page for more information (www.dallasartdealers.org). Uptown will have at least 6 galleries and museums participating and the events are mostly free.

  In Uptown the Madi Art Museum will have an artist reception from 2-8pm. At 3120 Mc Kinney the MAC will also be participating from 2-8pm. In the Quadrangle Afterimage Gallery will be open 2-8pm and of course the Quadrangle has plenty of free parking and restaurants . On Fairmount David Dike Fine Art and Galerie Kornye will be open from 2-8pm and on Cedar Springs Goss-Michael Foundation will be open. All of these galleries are a few blocks from each other and walking to each one would be very easy. 

  The Mc Kinney Ave. Trolley will be running late , till midnight on Saturday, and gets near each one of these galleries. The trolley is always free. September 26th is the All About Uptown Dallas Festival and the trolley parade will also be on this Saturday.         

Harwood Grove Cafe

Uptown Dallas Today

  The Harwood Grove Cafe coming soon on the Katy Trail . The Cafe will be a the south end of the trail nestled amongst a grove of trees. Thus the name of course. The cafe will between the plaza and Goat Hill and should offer a good place to stop and take a break or just watch people go past. Work should begin soon and may be completed for the great fall weather that is coming soon. I hope. 

  The Great State Fair of Texas starts on September 25th just two weeks away. You will be able to enjoy many great new fried foods this year. The new winning selection this year is Fried Peaches and Cream . Sounds good and worth a try. The most creative comes from the person that brought us Fried Coke . His newest invention gives us a buttery surprise or I should say Fried Butter surprise ! A paramedic will be available at this booth each day of the fair. I hear rumors that next years invention will be ..... Fried Lard . 

  During the fair I will be blogging about my day at the fair. Each year I try to make each day. There is something different each day of course. You can get a $29.95 season pass at Kroger that is good for each day of the fair. The pass also comes with a free general admission ticket and a Cinemark movie pass. You will not fine me in the Fried Butter line.   

    

  

 

Frozen Yogurt Uptown

Uptown Dallas Today

  Hope everyone enjoyed the Uptown PID meeting last night . Very informative and they are doing a good job with your tax money. Lots of new projects scheduled for 2010. A Block Captain for each block in Uptown is one of the new projects. I volunteered for this and will let you know 

how it works in the near future.

  Well we have another new store opening in Uptown. Red Mango will be opening at 2811 Mc Kinney Ave across the street from Greenz. They are a very popular yogurt and tea franchise. Looks like several new stores in the Dallas area are coming soon. Founded in 2002 in South Korea and they have spread to many countries around the world. 

  I noticed the north part of Uptown got tagged Tuesday night. The graffiti needs to be removed within 24 hours or you could get a visit from code enforcement. This is first time I can remember that we have had a wide spread outbreak in Uptown. If you are at Cityplace DART station check out the iron bridge in the field. The east side is now highly decorated and I would say this was the  starting point for the taggers. 

  All About Uptown Festival coming September 26th    

    

Elusive PID Meeting

Uptown Dallas Today

  The card sent to each property indicates Tuesday ,September 2nd , 5:30pm. The website indicates Wednesday,September 2nd at 5:30pm,see below, . I live nearby so I will be going both days just in case.  My best guess is the 2nd of September since that seems to be consistent in both messages. Of course neither message indicates the year so maybe this is where the confusion comes in. This meeting is for you and they of course need your input like a new calendar. See you there ........

  Annual Community Meeting

William B Travis School

3001 McKinney Ave.

Wednesday, September 2, 5:30PM
The Uptown Public Improvement District invites you to our Annual Community Meeting. Come out to meet your neighbors, learn about the Uptown Public Improvement District projects and give us your input.