Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Uptown One Mc Kinney Plaza

Uptown Dallas Today
   The One Mc Kinney Plaza remodel will begin o February 1st. There are several architechual renderings on the bokapowell.com  web page. Go to projects and then to adaptive uses section.The project is scheduled to take 8 months.  Not sure  how this will work with the MATA Trolley stop that is also at this location. This a busy stop for MATA for tourists and locals alike. 
   The renderings that are posted show that most of the 25yr trees in the front of One Mc Kinney Plaza will be cut down. This will add several thousand square feet to the front of the building with most of that footage to retail,restaurants and bars. A valet turn in will also be added to the Mc Kinney Ave side of the building. Again not sure how that will change  the MATA Trolley stop at this location. 
   Hope this works for them and the Uptown neighborhood. In the 25yrs this building has been there restaurants have opened and failed many times. Not sure why as this should be a great location. No additional parking will be added with the new space. Parking is becoming very difficult within this area, several new restaurants and bars have opened, and traffic in the afternoon is a gridlock at times. 


Cities are built for people not for machines .  

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