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In 1973, the center was expanded and renamed the Dallas Convention Center; the expansion was designed by local architects Omniplan. The center was expanded again in 1984 and once more in 1994, [ 7 ] when Dallas Area Rapid Transit constructed the Convention Center Station underneath the west-wing of the facility, connecting it to the Red and ...
The Credit Union of Texas Event Center (formerly Allen Event Center) is an American 6,275 fixed-seat multi-purpose indoor arena located in Allen, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas. The arena opened in 2009 under the name Allen Event Center. Construction cost was $52.6 million ($63.5 million in 2020 dollars).
The City Center District is an area in north-central downtown Dallas, Texas . It lies south of the Arts District, north of the Main Street District, northwest of Deep Ellum, southwest of Bryan Place and east of the West End Historic District. The district contains a large concentration of downtown commercial space which prior to 1950 had been ...
The Convention Center District is an area in southern downtown Dallas, Texas . It lies south of the Government District, north of the Cedars, west of the Farmers Market District, and east of the Reunion District. Visitdallas is contracted by the City to attract conventions, although an audit released in January 2019 cast doubts on its ...
The Moody Performance Hall (formerly Dallas City Performance Hall [1] [2]) is a performing arts venue located in the Arts District of Downtown Dallas, Texas, USA.Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) in collaboration with the Architect of Record, Corgan Associates, Inc., and constructed by the City of Dallas, [3] the performance hall will be built in two phases.
The completed center viewed from the South. Construction on additional facilities is nearing completion. The AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Texas, preliminarily referred to as the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, is a $354-million multi-venue center in the Dallas Arts District for performances of opera, musical theater, classic and experimental theater, ballet and other forms of ...
Robert Lee Thornton Sr. (often R. L. Thornton; August 10, 1880 – February 15, 1964) was an American banker, civic leader, and four-term Mayor of Dallas, Texas. R.L. Thornton, Mayor of Dallas, photo from Dallas Historical Society. A child of tenant farmers, Thornton's early years were divided between school and farm labor.
In 1981, the City of Dallas leased the building to an arts support group in Dallas led by Jo Kurth Jagoda, which was known as the "Turtle Creek Center for the Arts". [7] That same year, it was named as an American Water Landmark. [3] In 1983, renovations started. The building was named a Texas Historic Landmark & State Antiquities Landmark. [3]