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Mid-afternoon photo of Downtown Dallas that I shot on 10-12-10 from the west of Downtown. As a point of reference, the currently tallest structure in the Dallas cityscape is the Bank of America Tower at 72 stories and 921 feet in height, the 20th tallest building in the United States.
Downtown Dallas with its Uptown District contains 50,319,621 square feet of office space per the latest 3Q10 office report from CoStar the largest of any urban core in Texas. As a comparison Houston s CBD, the second largest in Texas, contains 43,129,432 square feet of office cheap tickets travel space per the latest 3Q10 office report from Transwestern. The Downtown Dallas CBD is 17% larger than Houston s.
[Editors note: CoStar and Transwestern count both single tenant and multi-tenant buildings, which provides a much clearer picture of a cities office space market. Dallas has several very large Downtown tenants that occupy multiple buildings as single tenants (i.e. AT T's World Headquarters fully occupies three or four buildings, Hunt Oil occupies a building it built for itself, Belo Broadcasting occupies several office buildings, etc.). Other office cheap tickets travel reports such as Cushman Wakefield, Grubb Ellis and CBRE count only multi-tenant buildings in their reports, providing an incomplete and distorted view of office space in a city.]
Museum Tower, at 560 feet tall and 42 stories cheap tickets travel costing 0 million dollars, is under construction (its construction crane is not yet in place and visible in this photo but will soon be as the foundation excavation is proceeding at a rapid pace).
Museum Tower, from this particular view, will visually be located behind the Ernst Young Tower, which is the blue glass building to the left of The House condo tower, a 29 story condominium highrise that itself is visually immediately to the left of the Calatrava Bridge.
A companion photo with a rendering of Museum Tower on the Downtown Dallas skyline is posted as a newer photo in this photostream and it does make a beautiful addition to the Downtown Dallas cityscape.
The 5.2 acre Woodall cheap tickets travel Rodgers Urban Park is under construction but cannot be seen in this photo. The Woodall Rodgers Urban park is creating a Central Park like setting amidst the skyscrapers of Downtown Dallas and will be the front lawn to Museum Tower. The Woodall Rodgers Urban Park is costing 0 million dollars.
Woodall Rodgers Freeway is becoming the new 21st century Main Street cheap tickets travel of Downtown Dallas with the intense development that has occurred fronting Woodall Rodgers Freeway from both the south (the traditional Dallas CBD) and the north (Dallas CBD s Uptown district) sides of the freeway.
The amount of construction activity in the immediate and near vicinity of Woodall Rodgers has become a major hotbed of skyscraper development for Dallas, currently now and going forward into the future.
The Calatrava Bridge, center photo in foreground, at 400 feet tall and costing 5 million dollars, is under construction and is extending Woodall Rodgers Freeway across the Trinity River into Oak Cliff/West Dallas on the west side of Downtown Dallas. Calatrava Bridge will make a dramatic cheap tickets travel impact on the skyline as it will have wire suspensions stretching in both directions, will be painted cheap tickets travel white and illuminated at night, creating a dramatic cheap tickets travel visual sculpture on the Downtown cityscape.
The Calatrava Bridge is a keystone development that will open up hundreds of millions, and ultimately cheap tickets travel billions of dollars, of development along the Trinity cheap tickets travel River Lakes project that is unfolding at the doorstep of Downtown cheap tickets travel Dallas. The Downtown Dallas central core will then not only have jumped over Woodall Rodgers Freeway to encompass what is now its Uptown District to the north but will also jump over the Trinity River to include skyscraper and highrise development on the Oak Cliff/West Dallas side of the Trinity River to the west via the Calatrava Bridge.
Plans call for over 30,000,000 square feet of new dense urban highrise and skyscraper development to be built in West Dallas along with the addition of 24,000 residents in the next 17 years pretty incredible growth. It is the Calatrava Bridge and the new frontier it will open up that will catapult Dallas cheap tickets travel into its status as the Chicago of the South by 2030.
The 14 story Perot Museum of Nature and Science is also under construction. It is visually cheap tickets travel located behind the Ernst Young Tower in this picture cheap tickets travel and its crane can be seen. The Perot Museum is a significant addition to Downtown Dallas and is costing 5 million dollars.
The Museum s 4.7 acre site is located at the NW corner of Woodall Rodgers Freeway and Field Street, adjacent to Victory Park. The Museum will be situated at the crossroads of the future Trinity River Corridor Project, the Arts District, the West End, Uptown, and other popular attractions.
Also currently cheap tickets travel under construction (and its crane can be seen just to the left of and in the background of The House condo tower), is the Dallas City Performance Hall in the Dallas Arts District. The City Performance Hall is a magnificent facility in the world class Dallas Arts District and is costing 0 million dollars. cheap tickets travel The Dallas Arts District is the largest arts district in the nation, spanning 68 acres and 19 contiguous blocks in Downtown Dallas.
The Omni Hotel, a 1,001 room, 23 story, 376 foot tall hotel costing half a billion dollars, sheathed in blue glass, next to the Dallas Convention Center is under construction on the far right of the photo.
The Omni Hotel is located on 8 acres in the heart of downtown, which is experiencing a renaissance from more than billion cheap tickets travel in new development cheap tickets travel underway in and near the urban core. Two acres of the Omni Hotel site are slated for additional dining, retail and other venues which will enhance entertainment opportunities for those who visit, work or live downtown.
First Baptist Church of Downtown Dallas has started work on a massive development to its Downtown Dallas campus. Several older buildings are slated to be imploded on Oct. 30, 2010 to make room for the significant new development that will be occurring. Cranes for the development will appear later once the excavation and ground work is completed. First Baptist Downtown Dallas is spending 0 million dollars on their new campus development.
As a further indication of the booming Downtown Dallas corridor, a 0 million dollar 23 story upscale apartment building called 1400 Hi Line is under construction as of 01-19-11 at the corner of Hi Line and Stemmons Freeway. The new highrise will front Stemmons and will be located across the freeway from the American Airlines Center. A nearby DART rail station will serve the residents of the 1400 Hi Line highrise.
The total of just the projects listed above equals .5 billion dollars in new development underway in Downtown cheap tickets travel Dallas at this moment, but the above list is by no means inclusive of all construction projects in process. cheap tickets travel A total of more than billion dollars in construction outlays are occurring right now in Downtown and near Downtown Dallas!
What is amazing is the level of significant financial investment that is occurring in Downtown Dallas during an economic cheap tickets travel downturn in the nation s economy but Dallas is still growing, building and investing in itself today for a much better tomorrow.
A recent article titled The Rejuvenation of Downtown Dallas , published in the October 2010 edition of D Magazine, concerning the incredibly positive developments that are occurring now and their impact on the future of Downtown Dallas that will power it into the upper echelon of elite U.S. cities:
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