Dallas Fort Worth

February 7, 2013

Chart of the week

Long-term planning creates a new downtown gateway

1985 The Crescent Mixed-Use Complex 2003 Nasher Sculpture Garden 2012 Klyde Warren Park 2008 Dallas Black Dance Theater 2008 Booker T. Washington School for the Arts 2012 City Performing Arts Center 2007 One Arts Plaza Mixed-Use Office, Condos & Retail

2009 Winspear Opera House 2012 Perot Museum of Nature & Science

2010 Park 17 Office Tower

2007 Hunt Oils New HQ 1984 Dallas Museum of Art 2013 - Museum Tower Condos

2009 Wyly Theater

Source: Jones Lang LaSalle

As highlighted last week, planning and consistent public & private leadership has created a new gateway into Dallas downtown.

Over its 30-year planning history, Dallas has concentrated its cultural venues in this area (like the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony and the Crow Collection of Asian Art), making it one of the largest Arts Districts in the US and attracting significant private sector investment (such as the Federal Reserves 1992 relocation to a prominent new building now adjacent to the park).
In 2012, Klyde Warren Park was completed over the Woodall Rogers Freeway. This project has created a new gateway into downtown bridging the historic physical north-south barrier between uptown and the CBD, as well as establishing a high-visibility approach from the freeway into downtown.