Downtown Dallas

Downtown Dallas is the main thing Central business district (CBD) of the metropolis of Dallas to the Texas, located in downtown area. The sector officially named " downtown" is surrounded by the Downtown freeway loop: composed in the east by the Interstate 345, on the west by the Interstate 35 E, in the south by the Interstate 30, and in north by State Highway Spur 366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway).

History

Downtown Dallas completed its notoriety the November 22nd 1963, with the Assassinat of John F. Kennedy and of the Governor John Connally (who survived) which were made draw above when their procession of cars passed by the Dealey Plaza in West End Historic District. Part of old the Texas School Book Depository is now Sixth Floor Museum At Dealey Plaza, with objects exposed about Kennedy and of the assassination. Very close the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial is.

The real boom of the years 1970 and the years 1980 produced a distinctive contemporary profile for CBD of the center, influenced by nationally famous architects. At the same time, the establishment of West End Historic District in the years 1980 preserved a group of brick warehouses of the 19th century which were adapted in restaurants and stores.

With the construction of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts in the Arts District of the center town, Dallas will be the only city in the world which will have four buildings in the same sector which all are designed by gaining Prix Pritzker.

Overall picture

Downtown counted approximately 1.600 residents in 2000, for the year 2010 the North Central Texas Council off Governments expects that 10.000 residents live in this district.

Districts of Downtown

Arts District
City Center District
Convention Center District
Farmers Market District
Government District
Hand Street District
Meeting District
West End Historic District

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