Downtown Dallas

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History Downtown Dallas achieved notoriety on November 22 1963, with the John F. Kennedy assassination. Kennedy and Governor John Connally (who survived) were shot as their motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in the West End Historic District, Dallas, Texas. Part of the former Texas School Book Depository is now the Sixth Floor Museum, with exhibits about Kennedy and the assassination. Nearby is the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial.

The building boom of the 1970s and 1980s produced a distinctive contemporary profile for the downtown skyline, influenced by nationally prominent architects. At the same time, the establishment of the West End Historic District, Dallas, Texas in the 1980s preserved a group of late-nineteenth-century brick warehouses that have been adapted for use as restaurants and shops.

With the construction of the Dallas Center for Performing Arts in the Arts District, Dallas, Texas of downtown, Dallas will be the only city in the world that has four buildings within one contiguous block designed by Pritzker Prize winners.

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Overview in Oak Cliff.Though it has been likened to a glorified office park with no cultural character, the area is undergoing a transition as dozens of residential conversions and new high rise condos bring more 24/7 residents to the downtown area. (See: North Central Texas Council of Governments Downtown Dallas Population Forecasts.) Its redeveloped Main Street, Dallas has recently become the place for Dallasites to play after several restaurants, hotels, and residential towers opened their doors along the strip. Downtown's growth can partially be attributed to Dallas Area Rapid Transit's two (soon to be 4) LRT lines and the one commuter line that run through Downtown and an aggressive stance taken by the city to drive development at all costs. The city has spent United States dollar160 million of public funds in downtown Dallas for residential development that attracted $650 million of private investment.Two of the first new-construction office building projects downtown in over 20 years broke ground in 2005—One Arts Plaza, a mixed use office, retail, residential development in the Arts District, Dallas which will be the new home of 7-Eleven’s headquarters; and the Hunt Consolidated office building.The city, along with several non-profit organizations, has recently pushed for the development of the deck park over State Highway Spur 366 (Texas)to create a seamless Uptown Dallas/downtown district, hoping the Uptown real estate market would help further redevelop downtown.

Most important, The Trinity River Corridor is undergoing transformation (the Trinity River Project) into a giant urban park. The park is expected to include an equestrian center, lakes, trails and three bridges designed by Santiago Calatrava.

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Club Purgatory in the Main Street District, Dallas, Texas

Neighborhoods Within Loop

Arts District, Dallas, Texas
City Center District, Dallas, Texas
Convention Center District, Dallas, Texas
Farmers Market District, Dallas, Texas
Government District, Dallas, Texas
Main Street District, Dallas, Texas
Reunion District, Dallas, Texas
West End Historic District, Dallas, Texas

Adjacent Neighborhoods

Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas (also considered part of east Dallas - outside loop).
Victory Park, Dallas, Texas (also considered part of the Stemmons Corridor or Oak Lawn, Dallas - outside loop).

Tallest structures corridor.

Bank of America Plaza (Dallas) -

Renaissance Tower -

Comerica Bank Tower -

JPMorgan Chase Tower (Dallas) -

Fountain Place -

Transportation Downtown Dallas is surrounded by downtown freeway loop (Dallas) composed of, from the north and clockwise, Texas State Highway Spur 366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway), unsigned Interstate 345 (connecting U.S. Route 75 (Central Expressway (Dallas)) to the north and Interstate 45 to the south), Interstate 30, and Interstate 35E (Texas). The loop is the center of Dallas's Spoke-hub distribution paradigm highway system which can be likened to a wagon wheel. U.S. Route 67 is carried through downtown on Interstate 35E to the south and Interstate 30 to the east, and U.S. Route 175 and the Dallas North Tollway join with other major highways within a mile of downtown.

Downtown is the center of Dallas Area Rapid Transit's (DART) light rail system. The and lines run through, from south to north, Convention Center Station (DART), Union Station (Dallas), West End Station, Akard Station, St. Paul Station, and Pearl Station stations. The regional rail train, which connects downtown Fort Worth Fort Worth, Texas with downtown Dallas, terminates at Union Station. Union Station also has Amtrak service.

The McKinney Avenue Transit Authority (MATA) operates the M-Line, a free trolley service that runs down St. Paul Street from Uptown Dallas and terminates at Ross Avenue. North from downtown, it travels to McKinney Avenue from St. Paul, runs through the LoMac, Dallas, Texas neighborhood, and finally loops around the West Village, Dallas, Texas along Blackburn and Cole Avenues. A spur adjacent to the West Village runs to Cityplace Station. DART.org - M-Line Service. Retrieved 18 September 2006.

Greyhound Lines operates a terminal in downtown at Commerce and Lamar and DART operates the West and East Transfer Centers as hubs for its public bus system. Greyhound.com - Locations : Dallas, Texas. Retrieved 18 September 2006.

The Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) operates an express commuter bus route that serves two stops in Denton, Texas , one stop in Lewisville, Texas , and another that makes two stops, one in Denton and another in Carrollton, Texas .

Education Downtown Dallas is served by the Dallas Independent School District.

Three schools: Middle College High School (Dallas) at El Centro College, the Pegasus School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, are located in downtown. The Pegasus Complex is also in downtown.

The neighborhood schools for Downtown are outside of the loop.

Four elementary schools—City Park Elementary School, Sam Houston Elementary School, Hope Medrano Elementary School, and Ignacio Zaragoza Elementary School; three middle schools—Billy Earl Dade Middle School, Thomas J. Rusk Middle School, and Alex W. Spence Middle School; and two high schools—James Madison High School (Dallas) and North Dallas High School, serve downtown. Dallas ISD - 2006 School Feeder Patterns - James Madison High School. (Maps: ES: City Park; MS: Dade; HS: Madison.) Retrieved 31 December 2006. Dallas ISD - 2006 School Feeder Patterns - North Dallas High School. (Maps: ES: Houston, Medrano, Zaragoza; MS: Rusk, Spence; HS: North Dallas.) Retrieved 31 December 2006.

Holy Trinity Catholic School is a nearby centrally located private school providing early education to three year olds through eighth grade. References

External links

City of Dallas web site
Central Dallas Association web site

Club Purgatory in the Main Street District, Dallas, Texas