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The Convention Center District is an area in southern downtown
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,
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(
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). 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

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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, de ...
* Pioneer Plaza *
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 f ...


Transportation


Highways

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Interstate 30 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, A ...
* - Interstate 35E


Trains

* DART: and * Convention Center Station


Air

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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 D ...


Education

The district is zoned to schools in the
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 ...
. 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 can be def ...
, Billy Earl Dade Middle School, and James Madison High School.Dallas ISD




. (Maps: ES:''
City Park
; MS:''
Dade
; HS:''
Madison
.) Retrieved 31 December 2006.


References


External links


Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau
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