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The Beck Group was founded in 1912 by Henry C. Beck [4] in Houston, Texas as a general contractor [2] as Central Contracting Company. In 1934, it moved its headquarters to Dallas, [1] a requirement for building the city's Cotton Exchange Building. [2]
The types of municipalities in Texas are defined in the Local Government Code, which was codified in 1987. The designations of city, town and village were superseded by Type A, B, and C general-law cities in the code. [5] In Texas, there are two forms of municipal government: general-law and home-rule.
The Santa Fe Terminal Complex is an 18-acre (73,000 m 2) complex of historic buildings in the Government District of downtown Dallas, Texas ().Constructed in 1924 as the headquarters for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway and the Southwest's largest merchandising center, three of the original four buildings remain today and have been renovated into various uses.
Sand Branch is located approximately two miles south of U.S. Highway 175 and 14 miles southeast of Downtown Dallas on Belt Line Road in southeastern Dallas County. It is situated between the Trinity River and Hickory Creek, southwest of Seagoville. [2]
Dallas City Hall is the seat of municipal government of the city of Dallas, Texas, United States. It is located at 1500 Marilla Street in the Government District of downtown Dallas . The current building, the city's fifth city hall, was completed in 1978 and replaced the Dallas Municipal Building .
The Tenth Street Freedman's Town is a historic African American community in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas. A freedmen's town is a community settled by formerly enslaved people who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War .
On June 19, 2009, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed SB 956 into law, establishing the first public law school in North Texas. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law planned to begin taking applications in the Fall of 2013 for classes that began in 2014. [ 8 ]
Town Creek is a neighborhood in the Lake Highlands area of Dallas, Texas . It is generally bounded by Royal Lane on the south, Abrams Road on the west, Whitehurst Drive and Atherton Drive on the north, and a tributary of White Rock Creek on the east. However, it generally excludes the apartments and shopping center located within those boundaries.