One chilly weekend in January, excavators began transforming what is normally one of Dallas’ most congested roads – Interstate 30 – to make way for the $888 million Canyon project.
The work kicked off an effort to widen the downtown thoroughfare for a growing North Texas, but also to install columns for five new highway caps, envisioned as community spaces stretching across the interstate. Southern Dallas residents, who still face detours because of the project, could eventually see green spaces reconnect neighborhoods to the north and south.
Two such structures are part of Dallas’ redevelopment of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center — projected to cost up to $3.8 billion. They were previously conceived as one big deck, resembling Klyde Warren Park in Uptown, but were split into smaller structures when the landscape proved to be an obstacle, said Rosa Fleming, who leads the convention center department.
Supporters say these deck-like connections near Lamar Street could transform southern Dallas. The convention center redevelopment as a whole has faced scrutiny, including plans to reroute traffic from Oak Cliff, which could alter that area’s connection to downtown.
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