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Convention Center District, Dallas
The Convention Center District is an area in southern downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). 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 effectiveness. Attractions * Dallas Convention Center * Pioneer Plaza * Pioneer Park Cemetery Transportation Highways * - Interstate 30 * - Interstate 35E Trains * DART: and * Convention Center Station Air * Dallas CBD Vertiport Education The district is zoned to schools in the Dallas Independent School District. Residents of the district are zoned to City Park Elementary School A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County with portions extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman and Rockwall counties. With a 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the ninth most-populous city in the U.S. and the third-largest in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea. The cities of Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were initially developed due to the construction of major railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle and later oil in North and East Texas. The construction of the Interstate Highway System reinforced Dallas's prominen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Convention Center
The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center (KBHCCD) (formerly Dallas Convention Center) is a convention center in the Convention Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas. The "Dallas Memorial Auditorium" was a standalone multipurpose arena, designed by George Dahl in 1957. Dahl was responsible for the renowned Art Deco buildings at the Dallas Fair Park, as well as many other Texas landmarks. The Convention Center additions were designed by Larry Oltmanns, who was a Design Partner with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill at the time. On February 9, 2022, the Dallas City Council voted to take steps toward demolishing the convention center and replacing it with a new one.Dallas moves forward on plans to build new downtow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Park Elementary School
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Independent School District
The Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD or DISD) is a school district based in Dallas, Texas (USA). It operates schools in much of Dallas County and is the second-largest school district in Texas and the seventeenth-largest in the United States. It is also known as Dallas Public Schools (DPS). As of 2017, the school district was rated " as having met the standard" by the Texas Education Agency. History 1800s The Dallas public school district in its current form was first established in Dallas in 1884, although there is evidence that public schools had existed for Dallas prior to that date.Walter J. E. Schiebel, Ed.D. (1966) ''Education in Dallas: Ninety-two years of history 1874–1966''. Dallas: Dallas Independent School District. Mayor W. L. Cabell ordered just one month after the June 16, 1884, district founding that "all former Ordinances in relation to the city public school are hereby repealed," and the district's 1884–85 superintendent, a Mr. Boles, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas CBD Vertiport
Dallas CBD Vertiport is a city-owned public heliport/vertiport in the city of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, United States. The facility is located at the south end of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in the Dallas Central Business District, and is claimed to be the world's largest elevated heliport/vertiport. Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Dallas CBD Vertiport is assigned 49T by the FAA and JDB by the IATA. The facility is used solely for general aviation purposes, which can include air taxi operations. The 2022 Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas Master Plan investigated the future location and configuration of the vertiport. Facilities Dallas CBD Vertiport has two FATO/TLOFs: * H1: 60 x 60 ft. (18 x 18 m), approach/departure orientation: 04, surface: concrete * H2: 60 x 60 ft. (18 x 18 m), approach/departure orientation: 31, surface: concrete The airside features, on an approxima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convention Center Station (DART)
Dallas Convention Center is a DART Light Rail station located in Dallas, Texas. It is located at Memorial Drive and Lamar Street, underneath the Dallas Convention Center in the Convention Center District. It opened on June 14, 1996, and is a station on the and lines, serving the Dallas Convention Center, the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, Dallas City Hall Dallas City Hall is the seat of municipal government of the city of Dallas, Texas, United States. It is located at 1500 Marilla in the Government District of downtown Dallas. The current building, the city's fifth city hall, was completed in 19 ... and Pioneer Park. References External links DART - Convention Center Station Dallas Area Rapid Transit light rail stations in Dallas Railway stations in the United States opened in 1996 1996 establishments in Texas Railway stations in Dallas County, Texas {{Texas-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is a transit agency serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex of Texas. It operates buses, light rail, commuter rail, and high-occupancy vehicle lanes in Dallas and twelve of its suburbs. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . DART was created in 1983 to replace a municipal bus system and funded expansion of the region's transit network through a sales tax levied in member cities. DART Light Rail began operation in 1996 and has grown to become the longest light rail system in the United States, at over . DART jointly operates the Trinity Railway Express commuter rail line between Dallas and Fort Worth, with Trinity Metro. The agency also operates the Dallas Streetcar and provides funding for the non-profit McKinney Avenue Streetcar. History Precursor agencies The Dallas Transit System (DTS) was a public transit service operated by the city of Dallas, from 1964 to 1983. DTS was formed by the consolidation of va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 35E (Texas)
Interstate 35E (I-35E), an Interstate Highway, is the eastern half of I-35, where it splits to serve the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. I-35 splits into two branch routes, I-35W and I-35E, at Hillsboro. I-35E travels north for , maintaining I-35's sequence of exit numbers. It travels through Dallas before rejoining with I-35W to reform I-35 in Denton. During the early years of the Interstate Highway System, branching Interstates with directional suffixes, such as N, S, E, and W, were common nationwide. On every other Interstate nationwide, these directional suffixes have been phased out by redesignating the suffixed route numbers with a loop or spur route number designation (such as I-270 in Maryland, which was once I-70S) or, in some cases, were assigned a different route number (such as I-76, which was once I-80S). In the case of I-35 in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, since neither branch is clearly the main route and both branches return to a unified Interstate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I-35E
Interstate 35E may refer to: *Interstate 35E (Texas), a long branch route serving Dallas, Texas *Interstate 35E (Minnesota), a long branch route serving St. Paul, Minnesota See also * Interstate 35W (other) {{road disambiguation Lists of Interstate Highways sharing the same title, 35E Interstate 35, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 30 (Texas)
Interstate 30 (I-30) is a Interstate Highway in the southern states of Texas and Arkansas in the United States. I-30 travels from I-20 west of Fort Worth, Texas, northeast via Dallas, and Texarkana, Texas, to I-40 in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The highway parallels U.S. Highway 67 (US 67) except for the portion west of downtown Dallas (which was once part of I-20). Between the termini, I-30 has interchanges with I-35W, I-35E, and I-45. I-30 is known as the Tom Landry Freeway between I-35W and I-35E, within the core of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Route description , - , Texas , , , - , Arkansas , , , - , Total , , I-30 is the shortest two-digit Interstate with a number ending in zero in the Interstate System. The Interstates ending in zero are generally the longest east–west Interstates. The largest metropolitan areas that I-30 travels through include the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the Texarkana metropolitan area, and the Little Rock metropoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I-30 , a prototype of the Yakovlev Yak-3
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i30, I30, i-30 or I-30 may refer to: *Interstate 30, an Interstate Highway in the southern United States *, an Imperial Japanese Navy submarine during World War II * (1940-1968), a Royal Australian Navy ''Tribal''-class destroyer *I30, a 9000 server model of computer system produced by the Hewlett-Packard (HP) company *Hyundai i30, a small family car made by Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Company *Infiniti I30, mid-size luxury car sold under Nissan's Infiniti marque in North American markets *Korg i30, a 1998 keyboard instrument *IBM NetVista Internet Appliance i30, allows internet access on a TV *I-30 (aircraft) The Yakovlev Yak-3 (Russian language, Russian: Яковлев Як-3) was a single-engine, single-seat World War II Soviet Union, Soviet fighter aircraft, fighter. Robust and easy to maintain, it was much liked by both pilots and ground crew.Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneer Park Cemetery
Pioneer Park Cemetery is a conglomeration of four graveyards with the remains of several of the city's earliest founders. It is located in the Convention Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas, US, and directly east of Pioneer Plaza. The four graveyards were known as Masonic Cemetery, the Odd Fellow's Cemetery, the Jewish Cemetery, and the City Cemetery. History Established in 1849, Pioneer Park Cemetery is the final resting place for four Dallas mayors, early city business leaders, and fighters from the Texas Revolution. John McClannahan Crockett, Dallas mayor and Lieutenant Governor of Texas during the American Civil War, is among those buried here. The last person was interred in the cemetery in 1921. Confederate War Memorial Originally located in Old City Park, the '' Confederate War Memorial'' was moved to Pioneer Park Cemetery in 1961 to accommodate construction of R.L. Thornton Freeway. The Dallas City Council approved removal of the monument in February 2019 bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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