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Dallas Pedestrian Network
The Dallas Pedestrian Network or Dallas Pedway is a system of grade-separated walkways covering thirty-six city blocks of Downtown Dallas, Texas, United States. The system connects buildings, garages and parks through tunnels and above-ground skybridges. The network contains an underground city of shops, restaurants and offices during weekday business hours. The underground network was the idea of Montreal urban planner Vincent Ponte, who was also responsible for Montreal's Underground City. Connected to the Dallas Pedestrian Network Hotels: * Sheraton Dallas Hotel * Fairmont Hotel Dallas Marriott Downtown* Hotel Indigo * Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown * Westin Cambria Dallas Downtown( Tower Petroleum Building) Office Buildings: * Comerica Bank Tower * Chase Tower * 1700 Pacific * Bank of America Plaza * Renaissance Tower * Fountain Place * Plaza of the Americas * Bryan Tower * KPMG Centre * Patriot Tower * Energy Plaza * Ross Tower * One Main Place * Republic Center * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1700 Pacific
1700 Pacific is a skyscraper located at 1700 Pacific Avenue in the City Center District, Dallas, Texas, City Center District of Dallas, Texas. The building rises and contains 49 floors of office space. It is currently the seventh tallest building in the city and was the second tallest in the city when it was completed in 1983, trailing only Renaissance Tower (Dallas), Renaissance Tower. The land on which 1700 Pacific sits was once two triangular blocks separated by Live Oak Street. In 1977, one of the triangular blocks was purchased by Dallas Transit Board for a major transit interchange on a proposed underground transit system"Group Buys Building at 211 North Ervay". ''The Dallas Morning News''. September 4, 1977. The architect for the Tower was WZMH Architects. Berkeley First City L.P. first owned the building while Jones Lang LaSalle leased the building. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1600 Pacific Tower
1600 Pacific Tower, also known as the LTV Tower (and also originally National Bank of Commerce Building), is a skyscraper in the City Center District of Dallas, Texas, USA. The building rises 434 feet (132 meters). The structure contains 33 floors, made up originally of office space (but now consists of a hotel and apartments), standing as the 29th-tallest building in the city. The building is adjacent to Thanks-Giving Square and was, for a time, connected to the Dallas Pedestrian Network. History The building was designed in 1961 by architects Harwood K. Smith and Dales Young Foster and opened in 1964 as the fifth tallest building in Dallas. Banking facilities for the National Bank of Commerce were located on the second and third floors, while the 28-story tower portion of the building contained the executive headquarters for LTV (Ling-Temco-Vought), Electro-Science Investors, and American Life Insurance Company plus other leasable space. 2 levels of parking are located below ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Place (Dallas)
Pacific Place is a Class-A office skyscraper located at 1910 Pacific Avenue in the City Center District of Dallas, Texas. The structure contains 20 floors of office space and stands adjacent to the historic Majestic Theatre. It is connected to the Dallas Pedestrian Network and sits across Pacific Avenue from the recently completed Pacific Plaza Park. It lies within the Harwood Historic District, but is not a contributing structure. History Pacific Place, constructed of steel, masonry and purple reflective glass, opened in 1982 as a multi-tenant office tower. It was constructed on the site of the historic 1921 Melba Theatre, one of several theaters along Elm Street's Theater Row, and an adjacent parking structure. Its narrow building site resulted in recessed courtyard entrances on both Elm Street and Pacific Avenue, while the angled facade provided multiple corner offices and allowed light to reach the neighboring Corrigan Tower. The second level of the building was connected via ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Center
Republic Center is a mixed-use complex at 300 N. Ervay Street and 325 N. St. Paul Street in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas ( USA), adjacent to Thanks-giving Square. The complex is located diagonally across the street from DART's St. Paul Station, which serves its , , , and light rail lines. It also contains part of the Dallas Pedestrian Network, with shops and restaurants in the lower levels of the building and is connected to the Bullington Truck Terminal. History The Republic National Bank Building (later known as Republic Center Tower I and now Gables Republic Tower) was constructed as a 36-story skyscraper for the headquarters of Republic National Bank, which had previously been located at the Davis Building. Seeking to build higher than their rival's Mercantile National Bank Building, the Republic National Bank Building became the tallest building in Dallas and west of the Mississippi River at its completion in 1954. The skyscraper included an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Main Place (Dallas)
One Main Place is a mixed-use skyscraper hotel and office building at 1201 Main Street in Dallas, Texas. The building rises . It contains 33 above-ground floors, and was completed in 1968. One Main Place currently stands as the 27th-tallest building in the city. The architectural firm that designed the building was Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which also designed the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center in Chicago and the Burj Khalifa The Burj Khalifa (; ar, برج خليفة, , Khalifa Tower), known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration in 2010, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is known for being the world’s tallest building. With a total height ... in Dubai. Gordon Bunshaft was the lead designer of One Main Place, and a few of his notable buildings include Lever House in New York, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. The building was listed on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Tower
Ross Tower is a 45-story high-rise in Downtown Dallas, Texas. Originally named Lincoln Plaza, the building was renamed to Ross Tower in September 2013. The building rises to a height of 579 feet (176 m) and was completed in 1984. Currently, it is the 14th-tallest building in the city. Major tenants At one time Halliburton had its headquarters in Lincoln Plaza.Brown, Steve.HALLIBURTON WILL MOVE HEADQUARTERS TO LINCOLN PLAZA" '' The Dallas Morning News''. October 23, 1985. Retrieved on December 16, 2009. As of 2002 20 employees worked in the building.Bivins, Ralph.Halliburton headquarters moving here / 5 Houston Center lease brings firm from Dallas" '' Houston Chronicle''. Tuesday July 16, 2002. Business 1. Retrieved on January 23, 2010. The company moved its headquarters from the Southland Life Building to of space in Lincoln Plaza in 1985. Halliburton planned to move its headquarters to Houston in 2002. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Energy Plaza
Energy Plaza is a skyscraper in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas, United States, north of Thanks-Giving Square at 1601 Bryan Street. Designed by I.M. Pei and Partners, the building is and 49 stories, making it the ninth-tallest building in Dallas. The building itself is based on a design using three triangles. The communications tower at the top of the building is a small version of the Star Tower broadcast tower line from Landmark Tower Company, which went bankrupt after its owner and chief design engineer died from a heart attack in 2002. Construction on the building began in May 1980 and the building opened in August 1983 for the Atlantic Richfield Company to be used as their regional headquarters. The structure's original name was the ARCO Tower. Energy Future Holdings, Oncor Electric Delivery, and FuelcoLLC.com, are the primary tenants. Other notable tenants include Civitas Capital Management LLC. The building is connected to the Dallas Pedestrian Network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriot Tower
One Dallas Center (formerly Patriot Tower) is a modernist skyscraper located in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas, completed in 1979. The building has 30 floors and rises 448 feet (137 meters). One Dallas Center is currently tied with the Sheraton Dallas Hotel North Tower as the 25th-tallest building in the city. The building was originally planned as part of a three-building complex designed by I.M. Pei & Partners, but only one tower was constructed. One Dallas Center is now owned by Todd Interests and houses the headquarters of HKS Inc., Greyhound, and Apex Clearing Corporation. The first 15 floors of the high rise are renovated office space, while the top 15 floors are luxury apartment homes constructed and delivered in October 2014. One Dallas Center is professionally managed by Lincoln Property Company. History One Dallas Center was announced by developer Vince Carrozza in 1977 as the first phase of a US$200 million mixed-use development. Phase One in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KPMG Centre
717 Harwood is a skyscraper in Downtown Dallas, Texas. The building rises . It contains 34 floors, and was completed in 1980. 717 Harwood currently stands as the 22nd-tallest building in the city. The building is well known for its sloping exterior glass walls, which slant inward from the building's top floor to ground level. 717 Harwood is owned by SKW Funding, a New York-based real estate investment firm. The building formerly housed the Dallas offices of KPMG, until their move in 2015 to the new KPMG Plaza tower. 717 Harwood is home to the headquarters of HilltopSecurities, which is a subsidiary of Hilltop Holdings Inc Hilltop or Hill Top is the top of a hill and may refer to: Place names England * Hill Top, Cumbria, a house in England * Hill Top, Stanley, County Durham, England * Hill Top, Teesdale, County Durham, England * Hilltop, Buckinghamshire United S .... Other tenants include Active Network, Lanyon and Omnitracs, and HOK. See also * List of tallest building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Tower
The Bryan Tower is a skyscraper in Dallas, Texas. The building rises . It contains 40 floors, and was completed in 1973. The Bryan Tower currently stands as the 19th-tallest building in the city. The architect who designed the building was Neuhaus & Taylor. The building is known for its distinctive gold-tinted windows and the steel beams that run up and down the building. In 1998, Randall D. Smith acquired the Bryan Tower, and his son Caleb Smith oversaw the renovation for his father's company Spire Realty, which he now runs. In popular culture Exterior shots of the building were used as the home of Ewing Oil in the original 5-part miniseries ''Dallas'', now referred to as Season One of the popular 1980s television series ''Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plaza Of The Americas (Dallas)
Plaza of the Americas is a major commercial complex in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas ( USA). It is adjacent to DART's Pearl Station and connected to the Dallas Pedestrian Network. The complex features several amenities connected by an enclosed . skylighted atrium which rises 13 stories above the lowest level: * Plaza of the Americas I-South Tower (25-story office tower) * Plaza of the Americas II-North Tower (25-story office tower) * Univision Center (26-story office tower) * 416-room Dallas Marriott City Center (originally the Plaza of the Americas Hotel until 1995, then Le Meridien Dallas until 2003, then The Westin Dallas City Center until 2010) * of meeting space * 2 levels of retail surrounding an indoor park * 1,000 space parking garage * 2010 Energy Star History The $100 million Plaza of the Americas, announced in 1977, was one of the first mixed-use developments in Dallas designed around an enclosed atrium.Brown, Steve. "Plaza of the Americas so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
