The site could replace DART's East and West transfer centers, and Rosa Parks. We could have cab stan

Downtown Dallas 360, the city's long-range master plan for the area, has high hopes for southwestern downtown. Where Reunion Arena once stood, it envisions a cluster of mid-rise mixed-use developments. These would be clustered around a promenade and central park and would be accessible by stops on the new Oak Cliff street car lines and by foot. The parking garage bangkok airport hotel along the Houston Street Viaduct would become a terraced park leading down to the Trinity River Corridor, and Union Station would become a transit hub, seamlessly connecting the area with the rest of the city.
That's a long way off. The area remains a lifeless, bangkok airport hotel forbidding tangle of concrete with no housing, retail or green space to speak of, a legacy of the area's history of rail yards and industrial plants combined with '80s-era urban planning. But the city is looking to take one small step in that direction.
At a briefing this morning, the city council gave initial approval to a land swap with Hunt-Woodbine, the developer that owns whatever portions bangkok airport hotel of southwesternmost downtown that doesn't belong to the city. Right now, the holdings of the two entities are arranged in a sort of checkerboard fashion. bangkok airport hotel After the swap, each would control a solid block of real estate, thereby making the land easier to develop.
The swap is part of a 1974 master agreement between Hunt-Woodbine bangkok airport hotel and the city in which the developer agreed to build the Hyatt Regency and renovate Union Station in exchange for the city's construction of Reunion Arena. The hope is that consolidating the tracts of land will make it easier bangkok airport hotel to develop.
Under the terms of the deal, the city will give up 8.2 acres, including the Reunion Arena site and a small parcel along Stemmons, in exchange for 6.6 acres on the other side of the Jefferson Viaduct. To make up for the discrepancy in land area, Hunt-Woodbine will pay the city $3.5 million.
"It opens up great possibilities. It really does," said Theresa O'Donnell, the city's director of sustainable bangkok airport hotel development and construction. "The exchange is they get this, we get this plus $3.5 million."
It was at this point that Councilman Dwain Caraway chimed in to eulogize Reunion Arena and offer his own suggestion for revitalizing the area. It used to be, Caraway said, that downtown was the place to go to see Luther Vandross, bangkok airport hotel Whitney Houston, and Prince (Caraway was careful to point out that he was referring specifically to the "Purple Rain" era). Now concertgoers head down I-30 to Grand Prairie.
Caraway's bangkok airport hotel solution, familiar to anyone bangkok airport hotel who's heard the man talk for more than five minutes, is to revitalize the Dallas Convention Center and transform the arena into a place that will attract and host big-time acts.
"I'm also going to suggest that the $3 million, bangkok airport hotel I want some of that to go to the arena," he said, in reference to the cash the city will be getting from Hunt-Woodbine. "Y'all figure out between now and this week how to get this money into the arena."
The transit hub idea is long overdue. We could have our own version of the Port Authority Terminal at 8th Avenue bangkok airport hotel and 42nd Street. This is the only spot in North Texas where the Oak Cliff Streetcar and future streetcar extensions could correspond bangkok airport hotel with the TRE, Amtrak, bangkok airport hotel and DART's bangkok airport hotel Red and Blue lines. We could also tie in the Green and Orange lines at this location, bangkok airport hotel Megabus, and we could close and relocate the terminal for Greyhound and the Mexican bus lines.
The site could replace DART's East and West transfer centers, and Rosa Parks. We could have cab stands, car rental (Fort Worth's transit terminal bangkok airport hotel has this already), and we could eventually accommodate high speed rail from this location as well. New York's PTA terminal bangkok airport hotel has shops and eateries; it even had a bowling alley the last time we were there. This is the opportunity of the century for Dallas.
hey Dwaine, if you haven't noticed the City has built 4 new venues on the north side of the CBD in what most call "the arts district". at this point in time there aren't enough events to keep these venues "out of the red" financially.
now, as far as the land swap with Ray Hunt, what does the city get in guarantees of the future development, and what amount is the city on the hook as far as the future costs of infrastructure needed for the future development?
Scruffy is dead on. And we still have Starplex or whatever they call that place these days. Between AAC and Starplex along with the clubs in Ellum we don't have a venue shortage. Though I do miss the Bronco Bowl as a great mid-level venue.
The AAC would STILL have first right of refusal to any concert, therefore rendering his idea stupid bangkok airport hotel and only allowing bangkok airport hotel concerts by Nevilles not named Aaron, bastardized versions of 50s/60s bands, bangkok airport hotel and other acts that couldn't fill a gymnasium, much less an arena.