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High-speed rail station will be 'iconic' part of Dallas skyline, CEO says

"We're budgeting accordingly to have an iconic structure."

DBJ Confidential
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/2014/11/high-speed-rail-station-will-be-iconic-part-of.html

/Mitch

Uhh, we still have Union Station.

This usually suggests they want to build a large building over the RR terminal, nothing to do with RR operations. The largest building on the west coast is scheduled to be on the old Transbay Terminal property, at the end of the California HSR.

Surprisingly, they ran into Legal issues when the poorly worded terms were interpreted in the 'other' way and everybody is bailing out of the building deal.

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> High-speed rail station will be 'iconic' part of
> Dallas skyline, CEO says
>
> "We're budgeting accordingly to have an iconic
> structure."
>
> DBJ Confidential
> http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/2014/11/hig
> h-speed-rail-station-will-be-iconic-part-of.html
>
> /Mitch

Perhaps, as with AAF, Texas Central Railways will have a real estate play. That is fine with me, especially since we get some passenger trains in the deal.

Article says it's now in the "environmental impact stage."

Undoubtedly it's in the queue behind the Keystone XL Pipeline awaiting approval from Mount Olympus.

Meantime, standby for the "discovery" of a new species of toad, and a multitude of "sacred Native American burial sites" all along the proposed route from and each within spittin' distance of the exact right-of-way.

Cynically yours,

Fritz in HSV, SAL

navy5717th Wrote:
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> Article says it's now in the "environmental impact
> stage."

Don't mess with Texas!

Unlike Michigan's high speed rail 30 year vision to
reach speeds up to 150 mph, Texas aims to run at 200
mph by 2021.

Texas - it's like the US we use to know - only now
with foreign trains...

Odd regarding the thought of a possible new "iconic"
station in a city that not only has such already, but
one recently dramatically renovated.

/Mitch

I suspect that the site of the recently demolished Reunion Arena may be in play here, as it is
just across the tracks from Union Station.

Houston is the city that needs a station. Right now Union Sta is a ball park and the SP's station is a post office. The little one room Amtrak depot under the freeway bridge is inadequate for anything. If they use the BNSF row they won't be going through College Station.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_22912466/san-francisco-los-angeles-vie-tallest-skyscraper