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Downtown Dallas
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Texas |
| Counties | Dallas |
| City | Dallas |
| Area | |
| - Land | 3.63 km² (1.4 sq mi) |
| - Water | 0 km² (0 sq mi) 0% |
| Elevation | 134 m (440 ft) |
| Population | |
| - Neighborhood (2005) | 5,646 |
| - Density | 1,555.37/km² (4,032.86/sq mi) |
| ZIP code | 75201, 75202, 75270 |
| Area code(s) | 214, 469, 972 |
| Website: http://www.downtowndallas.com | |
Downtown Dallas is the main business district in Dallas, Texas (USA), located in the geographic center of the city. The area officially termed "downtown" is bounded by the downtown freeway loop: made up on the east by I-345 (although known and signed as the northern terminus of I-45 and the southern terminus of US 75 (Central Expressway)), on the west by I-35E, on the south by I-30, and on the north by SH Spur 366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway).
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President Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza in the West End Historic District at 12:30 p.m. CST on 22 November 1963, while on a political trip through Texas. He was struck by at least two bullets. Texas Governor John Connally, seated ahead of Kennedy, was also struck by a bullet, but survived.
Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in a theatre about 80 minutes after the assassination and charged at 7:00 p.m. for killing a Dallas policeman by "murder with malice", and also charged at 11:30 p.m. for the murder of Kennedy (there being no charge for "assassination" of a president at that time). Oswald denied shooting anyone; he claimed that he was being set up as a "patsy", and that photographs of him holding the alleged murder weapon were fabrications. Oswald was fatally shot less than two days later on Sunday, November 24 in a Dallas police station by Jack Ruby, in front of TV cameras in the first live murder ever seen by U.S. audiences. Consequently, Oswald's guilt or innocence was never determined in a court of law, and some critics (such as New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, and conspiracy researchers Mark Lane and David S. Lifton) contend that Oswald was not involved at all and that he was framed.
Five days after Oswald was killed on November 29, President Lyndon B. Johnson created the Warren Commission—chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren—to investigate the assassination. It concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. A later investigation in the 1970s by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) also concluded that Oswald was the assassin, but that there was a "probable conspiracy" as well. [15]
The assassination was captured on film, most famously by Dallas dress manufacturer Abraham Zapruder.
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 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 of downtown, Dallas will be the only city in the world that has four buildings within one contiguous block designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize winners.
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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: NCTCOG Downtown Dallas Population Forecasts.) Its redeveloped Main Street has recently become the place for Dallasites to play after a slew of restaurants, hotels, and residential towers opened their doors along the strip. Downtown's growth can partially be attributed to DART'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 $160 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 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 Spur-366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway) to create a seamless Uptown/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.
| Central Business District Population, Household, and Employment Projections | |||||||
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 2025 | 2030 | |
| Population | 1,654 | 5,646 | 10,446 | 12,139 | 13,781 | 15,098 | 16,337 |
| Households | 1,122 | 3,318 | 6,015 | 7,029 | 7,868 | 8,611 | 9,340 |
| Employment | 130,473 | 135,148 | 138,224 | 140,961 | 149,936 | 155,966 | 160,733 |
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- Club Purgatory in the Main Street District
| Districts of downtown Dallas |
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- Arts District
- City Center District
- Convention Center District
- Farmers Market District
- Government District
- Main Street District
- Reunion District
- West End Historic District
- Deep Ellum (also considered part of east Dallas - outside loop).
- Victory Park (also considered part of the Stemmons Corridor or Oak Lawn - outside loop).
| By structural height | By roof height |
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See also: List of buildings in Dallas, Texas
- See also: Transportation of Dallas, Texas
Downtown Dallas is surrounded by a major highway loop composed of, from the north and clockwise, State Highway Spur 366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway), unsigned Interstate 345 (U.S. Route 75 (Central Expressway) to the north and Interstate 45 to the south), Interstate 30, and Interstate 35E. The loop is the center of Dallas's hub-and-spoke 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 Blue and Red lines run through, from south to north, Convention Center Station, Union Station, West End Station, Akard Station, St. Paul Station, and Pearl Station. The Trinity Railway Express commuter train, which connects downtown Fort Worth 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 and terminates at Ross Avenue. North from downtown, it travels to McKinney Avenue from St. Paul, runs through the LoMac neighborhood, and finally loops around the West Village along Blackburn and Cole Avenues. A spur adjacent to the West Village runs to Cityplace Station.[1]
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.[2]
The Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) operates an express commuter bus route that serves two stops in Denton, one stop in Lewisville, and another that makes two stops, one in Denton and another in Carrollton.
Downtown Dallas is served by the Dallas Independent School District.
Three schools: Middle College High School 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, Sam Houston, Hope Medrano, and Ignacio Zaragoza; three middle schools—Billy Earl Dade, Thomas J. Rusk, and Alex W. Spence; and two high schools—James Madison and North Dallas, serve downtown.[3][4]
- ^ DART.org - M-Line Service. Retrieved 18 September 2006.
- ^ Greyhound.com - Locations : Dallas, Texas. Retrieved 18 September 2006.
- ^ 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.
