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JERRY WORLD TOUR
April 26, 2010
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| From the statue of Tom Landry outside, to the blue star on the 50-yard line, hundreds of IREM-Dallas and IREM-Fort Worth members checked out the Dallas Cowboys new $1.4 billion digs on Thursday. (The now-imploded Texas Stadium only cost $30M.) The world's largest domed structure fittingly has the world's largest TV. Imagine losing that remote. The $40M big screen is 160 feet wide and 7.5 stories tall. The TV was assembled within the stadium and weighs 1.2M pounds (the equivalent of a 747 Airbus complete with 500 passengers, fuel, and luggage—for the younger crowd, luggage is that thing you used to bring on planes for free). | |
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| In the stadium's Sony Lounge, Courtney & Courtney Properties' Will Courtney (we forgot to ask if he was the first or second Courtney), with Fort Worth IREM prez Susan Holland. Will tells us he's been working on new lease deals with Family Dollar Stores including one in Colorado Springs. He's also marketing the commercial part of the Bar C Ranch property north of Fort Worth near the site he sold for residential development to a company which plans to build 1,400 homes. Two schools are built there and now open. When he's not busy with work, he serves on 12 boards and is aiming to raise $300M for organizations like the USO. | |
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| In the Dallas Cowboys' locker room, Stream Realty's Pam Logan and IREM Dallas prez Helen Moise pause by DeMarcus Ware's locker (each little cubby costs a whopping $9k). Pam is the senior PM at Rosewood Court, a 19-story office at Pearl and Cedar Springs Rd. that opened in July '08. After she signed a new 6k SF lease on Thursday with Servcorp, it's now 92% leased, she says. Stream is currently working on pursuing a LEED designation. Pam will briefly trade green for gumbo: She's heading to New Orleans next weekend for Jazz Fest. She promises not to cheat on us by spending time in the Saints locker room. | |
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| Bigger is definitely better when it comes to Jerry World. The stadium has the globe's biggest sliding glass doors and free-standing arches (a quarter-mile long each). The retractable end zone doors are 180-foot-wide by 120-foot-high on each end of the stadium. The five 38-foot panels take 18 minutes (or one commercial break) to open or close. The 80k-seat stadium has 1600 restrooms, with 60% allocated for the ladies; for the Jonas Brothers concert, they bumped it up to 90% for the squealing girls. For the guys? A world record number of high-def TVs: 3,000. By Super Bowl time, there will be 5,000. Al Bundy would be proud. |
