A Cape Town District Six Museum tagged image from photographer – skys the limit2 as published on Flickr.
Downtown Dallas from Dallas Galleria, 10-18-08
Image by skys the limit2
Downtown Dallas as seen looking south with Inwood Road along the western edge of the Dallas Galleria business district, which is located at the I-635 loop and the Dallas North Tollway in North Dallas, from 10-18-08.
Downtown Dallas is approximately 13 miles south of the Dallas Galleria business district.
Even though this picture is now old and dates from October 2008, it still shows the muscle of Dallas with its bristling Downtown Dallas corridor, now the largest central business district in Texas.
Dallas’ I-635 corridor between I-35E and Central Expressway has just started a .7 billion dollar major expansion that will transform LBJ Freeway (I-635) into a modern super highway by adding six additional lanes to the already significant expressway that it is, creating a 22-24 lane state-of-the-art super highway.
An official website for the “LBJ Express Project” exists that provides specifics along with an incredible aerial tour of what it will be like to drive on the new LBJ (I-635) Freeway.
The video quality is good enough to select full screen to get a better “experience” of driving the new expanded freeway:
The video starts out showing the enhancements to the Stemmons Freeway (I-35E) portion of the project south of LBJ I-635.
At approximately 1:00 minute into the video the transformation of the freeway is mind blowing – it shows the I-35E connection to I-635 and it is unbelievable how I-635 will be transformed.
Situated between the Dallas Galleria business district and Downtown Dallas, but located very close to Downtown Dallas, is the burgeoning Dallas Medical District.
Two massive new hospitals are just now under construction in the Dallas Medical District (Parkland at 2.5 million square feet and St. Paul at 1.3 million square feet at an investment of .1 billion dollars), and obviously not shown in this older image since their construction just started ( www.flickr.com/photos/52949402@N03/5080230744/in/set-7215… ).
Among several construction projects currently underway in Downtown Dallas are the 0 million dollar almost 600 foot tall 42 story Museum Tower in the Arts District, the 5 million dollar 17 story Perot Museum of Nature and Science in the Victory Park District, the 40 story 5 million dollar Calatrava Bridge in the Trinity River Greenbelt Park, the 0 million dollar 1.2 million square foot 23 story Omni Hotel in the Convention Center District, the 0 million dollar 5.2 acre Woodall Rodgers Urban Park seamlessly linking the Uptown District with the Arts District, the 0 million dollar Dallas City Performance Hall in the Arts District, the 0 million dollar 23 story 1400 Hi Line apartment building in the Design District immediately across from the American Airlines Center, and the 5 million dollar major campus expansion for First Baptist Church near the Arts District ( www.flickr.com/photos/52949402@N03/5128988435/ ).
Obviously none of the above current construction projects are seen in the above photo and all will make significant contributions to the burgeoning Downtown Dallas skyline once completed.
Furthermore since this photo was taken in October of 2008 several additional skyscraper towers have been completed Downtown that are also not reflected in the image.
These include Park17 residential tower at 26 stories completed in 2010, 17Seventeen McKinney office tower at 19 stories completed in 2010, St. Ann Court office tower at 27 stories completed in 2010, One Victory Park office tower at 20 stories, the Glass House residential tower at 22 stories, and The Tower Residences at the Ritz Carlton at 23 stories – all completed in 2009.
All of these listed towers and projects, whether currently under construction or completed since the photo was taken, make or will make significant contributions to the burgeoning Downtown Dallas skyline.
All told as of late Fall 2010 a continuing building boom of over billion dollars in construction activity is occurring in Downtown Dallas or the near Downtown area.
The original image is credited to jczart of flickr and is located in my “Favorites” page; I did crop and adjust image colors and contrast for this posting.
