041024 430 Mr Dallas

Old buildings are being converted into something else! Today’s focus is on a building in Sunny South Dallas! Now let’s turn our attention to Costco! 

Episode Transcript

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That is part thirty eight. Goodafternoon. We appreciate you being by the
channel. It is the speakeasy hereon ninety seven one, the Freak where
and just a little bit we're gonnahave Emily Jones on with us and we'll
see what she thinks about what isgoing on here with the Rangers boys.

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It's been brewing today, hadn't it? Oh man, I'm gonna work her
over it. Whoa whoa? Ohyeah, that is a way to phrase
that for sure. Oh yeah,she better show up ready right now,
though, I guess we must.Dallas, Texas, Mister Dallas, Dallas,

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Texas, Mister Dallas, Dallas,Texas. Femae Marcas, what all
Rogers, roboc Oh wait, Wilson, Micacina Richardson Square Fall, Dallas,

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Texas, Mister Dallas, Dallas,Texas, Mister Dallas, Dallas, Texas.
And mister Dallas. Whoa o Texa? Hello, Hey, mister d

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How is everybody today? Kicking ass? How's the girl? She al right
over here today? Looks fine?How's the girl today? Her? Oh?
Yeah, it's you I'm talking about. I'm talking about you. I'm
the girl You're here every day.Yeah, I'm just wondering how Jeff thought
the girl was today. Think she'sdoing great. Yeah, I think I'm

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good, mister Dallas. I onlyask because I'm concerned about you. Oh
why. I just get the feelingI have to watch out for you.
I would absolutely love if you couldwatch out for me, mister Dallas.
Could you help me with like dayto day problems, kind of like mister
Dallas superhero. You could swoop inand save me when my car has issues

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or do that things like that.I've been known to do that. Okay,
good, We'll see about it.Thanks. Well. I have a
couple of stories here for you allabout things that are going on out there
today, about new buildings that they'regoing to turn into something else. I

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lovely turn new buildings into something else. Actually, these are, and I
think I think he is too.Yes, let's go. Tailgated one is
in sunny South Dallas. I've drivenby this building many many times, and

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it looks fine, like it couldbe turned into something good very easily.
And yet it is sat vacant forfifteen years. But now we see it's
undergoing what they're calling a major renovation. We're speaking of the Forest Theater.

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This is a historic building in sunnySouth Dallas, which is right on on
Forest Avenue, I believe, andit looks exactly like a movie theater,
except there's been nothing going on therefor years and years, and every time

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I drive by there, I wonderwhy. However, now and then I've
driven by and seen some sign,seen it all lit up and some sign
of life, and I think,probably what's going on in there is somebody
has rented it out for something,some kind of private function. But it
looks capable of, you know,being I don't know, a music venue

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or maybe even going back to whatit used to be, which was a
filmhouse. But they say that it'sundergoing a major renovation. This is a
venue that's once hosted acts like TinaTurner, BB King and more recently Erika
Badou, and it's going to betransformed into a community and education hub,

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complete with mixed income housing nearby.They broke ground Thursday on the a more
than seventy five million dollar expansion,so tailgate to that, So that sounds
tailgatable, Yeah, yeah, Sothey're trying to do something with this place.

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The mayor was there for this,Eric Johnson. He said the Forth
Theater once served as a cultural landmarkfor our entire city, and this renovation
is going to usher in a newera for this theater and for this community.
It opened in nineteen forty nine andfour years served an exclusively white audience

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because I don't want to tilgate thatback then. I don't want all white
tailgates. What let's don't do anall white tailgate, and I insist on
having some variety. Well, flat, you'd have to go back to nineteen
forty nine for that anyway. Okay, so we're good now, okay,
okay, okay, okay, okay, all right, brown back in time

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to tailgate. Okay, but thisis the first time in its history that
it's been owned by black lead organization. And they say that the MLK Boulevard
is changing and weird. South Dallasis in transition, and we are going
to change with it now it changedto exactly what, Yeah, trying to

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figure out that they don't say.I would imagine there will be some sort
of music element involved in this ofsorts. Probably students the MLK Arts Academy
will have some big role in whatyou see there. But the important thing

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for now is that finally they havegotten together and gotten everything out of the
way that it's going to take toget something going with this place, because,
like I say, it doesn't lookdilapidated. You know, it's sat
there empty, and you know howit'll be when you drive by a building

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that's been empty for a long time, it'll just look really run down.
Well, yes, this never haslooked particularly run down to me. Every
time Petty Theft plays at Lee Harvey's, I always drive by it when,
you know, either driving to thevenue or on the way home. Yeah,
and so I've had a good lookat this numerous times over the years,

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and I've always wondered why somebody didn'tdo something with this, and now
it appears as though they are also. Let's turn our attention to Costcoat.
Okay, do you like Costco?I like I have. You know,
I haven't re upped in a while. I'm considering because it's almost pool season

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and I would really like to getaccess to the pool noodles. So those
Kirkland Seltzers, Nope, I justwant the pool noodles, and I'm considering
buying a year's membership in order topurchase two pool noodles. You just get
you some noodles. I did lookthem up on Amazon this morning, and
they have similar looking noodles for aboutforty bucks a pop. Yeah, and
save yourself on the membership, ButI also want a piece of pizza.

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Well, that's true, and youcan get that there. That's off limits
now if you're not a member.Now. I'm not sure what their plans
are for this, because it's notreally the kind of thing that you readily
imagine them getting involved in. Butit could be that the owners of Costco
I have bought this with the ideaof doing something completely different with it.

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But this is a high rise thatthey've bought, located at twelve six fifty
five North Central Expressway. They tookpossession of this office building in recent weeks.
This has been anticipated since late lastyear, when it's bid for the
property firm appeared in bankruptcy court filings. They're paying fourteen zero point twenty five

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m million dollars for the almost twohundred thousand square foot high rise, and
again, I don't know what theirplan is to do with this. They
say that they might utilize the landto extend its retail footprint, but I

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think that this is not terribly farfrom where that Costco up that way already
is mm hmm. So where isit? You can pack care, I'll
try to find this thing. Itsits on the west side of Central Expressway,
just south of LBJ. Okay,so it's inside the loop there.

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Yeah, yeah, there's one rightover there. Yeah. What the hell
is Costco going to do with thisthing? Yeah? They say it's next
door to an existing Costco retail location, so they're just gonna put more pool
noodles in there. Could be thatcould be getting out of the place they
are now, and I don't know, designing their scene to go a little

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bit more vertical than it is,but that seems kind of weird. No,
I don't think I'm going to ahigh rise to get my meat.
What are they doing? Let's stayhere. The retail already has plans for
for updates, repairs, and maintenance. This was built in nineteen eighty two,

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so it's, you know, notterribly old. What does Costco up
to taking the whole building? Well, Costco's doing something. They're went to
something, they say. Work isset to begin this month on construction,
with delivery slated for the end ofthe year. For the improvements, Okay,
they're doing improvements, But what's theend gate here? That's what I
don't understand. It just be wherethe work Costco like front office, my

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headquarters and all that. I guesssports term there. This is for all
the front offs Costco front office Costcopeople. Where's Costco headquartered? Take a
peek here? Yeah, it's inWashington. Maybe they want to move to
Dallas like everybody else for some taxbreaks. Yeah, might be moving to
Dallas. Well, man, youcan put a whole lot of groceries in

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there. You're not putting groceries,you don't think so if you're looking for
the vegetables there next door in thehigh ride floor thirty two. But Costco
is up to something. And Iknow you guys are into Costco Costco.
I know I should get into Costcomyself. You should. It's a good

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place. I'm into it. Withouthaving been into it in a while,
I'm still into it. Aren't youa Costco gal? Jewels? I am
a Costco gal. Yeah, it'shard. I haven't been going as often.
Yeah, I don't go. Thisis the thing you can. It's
hard to find the time and likethe right mindset to go attack Costco and

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the time that I usually finally getthere in my brain and I'm like,
okay, I have some time I'mgoing to go attempt this. It's the
same time as everybody else. Yeah, Like the last time I tried to
go to Costco, it was waytoo crowded. We didn't even park.
Well, I think that that's alwayshow it is at Costco. So you're
told me that Costco is pretty mucha go big or go home. Yes,

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it's good place. It's not akind of place you just whip into
and with ANIX pack of popsicles orsomething. No whipping going into there for
your Wednesday to Friday groceries. You'rein that for the hall. You're going
full cart. Yeah, you needlike a good hour or two. Yeah,
you know, that's what people tellme. Otherwise you're just whipping your

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ass for no reason. Everybody swearsby it though. It's a good place.
Good meats, yeah, they gotgood meat and Costco. There's something
about Costco. Like when you buythings at Costco and you use them and
somebody's at your house, you haveto tell them about Costco. When you
use the thing, you have tosay, oh I got this at Costco.
Yeah, there's a lot more wherethat came from. Everybody does it.

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There is something about Costco membership isthe new smoking. You remember in
friends when what's her name tried toquit smoking or pretend to smoke, because
that's where all the deals were cut. And if you want to get a
promotion, you need to be outon the balcony when they were smoking cigarettes.
You need be friends with those people. I think that's what Costco is

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now, really Costco. No,but if you tell someone now, I
do think at Costco there's a lotof knowing nods like yeah we're Costco pe
right, but no one's doing dealsat Costco. There's too much going on.
No, but I think it issomething that is it's a status statement
to somebody. When you're like,oh, yeah, how was at Costco,
They're like, oh, you're aCostco person. You're like yeah,
yeah, yeah, And then youstart having all the Costco conversations correct,

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and then bam you got promoted becauseit's like, oh you Costco is how
about that you go to the backwhere the meats are you absolutely do.
It seems like a big status thing. People who are Costco members are very
eager to let you know that theyare if you work your way to the
back. That's where the meat is. It is to the back. Gosh,
why did I say it like that? They're weird? And we do

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live in a world now where Ihaven't been to costco a while. Somebody's
gonna tell me do they have theparty wings? The chicken wings, because
you're not going to find those atmost regular grocery stores anymore, because we've
had a chicken problem. The lasttime I bought party wings, I don't
know, you know, the onesthat come with the little drummies and the
little flappers. They ain't at mygrocery store. No more talking about the

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bird flu. I guess I don'tknow. Yeah, we had stuff happen.
Yeah, jacked us up. Well, how about somebody out there knows
I need to know out there,We'll tell you. I think I think
you can get them at one ofthe sprouty, Whole food e whatever places.
I think they've still got them somebecause I think on Amazon Fresh I
saw some that I could have orderedry Amazon Fresh for the first time.

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How'd it go? I liked it? Yeah, yeah, I liked it.
You're going to start telling people Ithink so. Now, what's Amazon
Fresh? Is that a competitor atCostco? No, well, the Costco
needs to have a same day delivery. Maybe they do, but it's not
like as user friendly as the appusing an app like some of these others
like Target or Amazon Fresh. AmazonFresh is groceries. You can have your

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groceries delivered with your Amazon Prime accountor whatever. I think there is a
fee. I got one of those. Yeah, how they give you a
nice little two hour window that it'llbe there that you can pick. I
want it between nine and eleven,and they're they're pretty good about it.
You do this too, huh?I have I have it in a while
because Kroger is two hundred yards frommy door basically, but it's been done.

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It is the lazy man's grocery.It is. They have like their
own food line. It's called HappyBelly. There's a lot of Happy Belly
things mine they delivered. Don't theyjust go get it all from Whole Foods?
I don't know. I feel likethey have a whole Amazon grocery thing.
I could be wrong, but itsaid the Amazon Fresh like right there
on the label of the strawberries orwhatever. I like squash. Should check

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it out, mister d Yeah,swing by Costco and order fresh Well,
all right, there you go.There's news on Costco in the Forest Theater
and I gotta go. Thank god, I was so tired of you today.
I had about enough of hell.Thank you, mister Dallas. Great
to see you. I liked yourinformation. Coming up next, it's war.
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