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Trammell Crow Center is a 50-story postmodern skyscraper at 2001 Ross Avenue in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas. [5] With a structural height of 708 ft (216 m), [6] and 686 ft (209 m) to the roof, it is the sixth-tallest building in Dallas and the 18th-tallest in the state.
It was built beginning in 1930, to house the expanded offices of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Construction was completed on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building to the north of Independence Avenue in 1930, but Depression-era agriculture programs demanded far more office space than the main building could provide.
In May 2017 at a Dallas city council meeting it was stated TxDOT had restarted the environmental impact statement review process. Construction is not expected until 2026. In the longer term, the North Central Texas Council of Governments is studying a very broad outer loop around the entire Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Assuming it receives ...
The Dallas Downtown Historic District is a 555-acre (225 ha) area in downtown Dallas, Texas, United States, that was designated a historic district in 2006 and expanded in 2009 to preserve the diverse architectural history of the area.
Constructed in 1912, the notorious Independence Avenue truck-eating bridge has recently been revitalized with a vibrant set of four over-sized murals embellishing the crumbling concrete structure.
Fountain Place as viewed from Reunion Tower in August 2015. Original plans for the project called for twin towers, with the second tower rotated 90 degrees from the original, to be built across the garden on an adjacent lot, but with the collapse of the Texas oil, banking and real estate industry and the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s, the project was never completed.
Dallas, the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas, is the site of 42 completed high-rise buildings over 350 feet (107 m), 20 of which stand taller than 492 feet (150 m). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The tallest building in the city is the Bank of America Plaza , which rises 921 feet (281 m) in Downtown Dallas and was completed in 1985.
On June 30, 2015, an envelope containing white powder was discovered in an office on the 14th floor. The Dallas Fire-Rescue Department determined that the powder was chalk; no one was injured in the incident. [3] On June 17, 2019, a lone shooter, identified as former Army infantryman Brian Isaack Clyde, opened fire at the building. Building ...