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The Dallas Convention Center, originally the Dallas Memorial Auditorium, is a meeting hall, event/convention center and civic center in the Convention Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). Metro Toronto Convention Centre, late 2004. ... Categories: Stub ... Pedestrians along Stone Street. ...      Nickname: Big D Location in the state of Texas Country United States State Texas Counties Dallas, Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall Mayor Laura Miller Area    - City 997. ... Official language(s) See: Languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 268,581 sq mi (695,622 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ...

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History

The Dallas Memorial Auditorium was originally constructed in 1957 near the intersection of Canton and Akard Streets. In the 1970s, the center was expanded and renamed the Dallas Convention Center. The center was expanded again in 1984 and once more in 1994 [1], when Dallas Area Rapid Transit constructed the Convention Center Station underneath the west-wing of the facility, connecting it to the Red and Blue light rail lines. The most-recent addition to the facility was completed in 2002.[1] A DART Bus operating in downtown Dallas The Dallas Area Rapid Transit authority (or DART) is the transit agency in Dallas, Texas that operates buses, subways, light rail, commuter rail, and HOV lanes in Dallas and 12 of its suburbs. ... Convention Center Station is a DART light rail station located in Downtown Dallas, Texas underneath the Dallas Convention Center at Memorial Drive and Lamar Street. ... The Red Line is a light rail line in the system of mass transit in Dallas operated by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system. ... The Blue Line is a light rail line in the system of mass transit in Dallas operated by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system. ... This article is about light rail systems in general. ...


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The center is over 2,000,000 square feet (186,000 ) in size and contains over 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m²) of exhibit space. The largest contiguous exhibit-space in the structure is 726,726 square feet (67,515 m²). A 203,000 square foot (19,000 m²) column-free exhibit hall in the center is the largest of its kind in the United States.[2] A square foot is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 foot long. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ...


The east side of the structure contains the original element of the Dallas Memorial Auditorium, a 9,816-seat arena. The complex also houses a 1,740-person theater, 105 meeting rooms, and 2 gigantic ballrooms. In terms of accessibility, the world's largest heliport/vertiport sits atop the structure and 75 truck berths line its docks. [2] ARENA may refer to either: Nationalist Republican Alliance, a political party in El Salvador. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212... A ballroom is a large room inside a building, the designated puprose of which is holding dances (balls). ... A vertiport is an airport specifically designed to be used by VTOL aircraft. ... Look up berth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term berth is used to describe a bed on a boat or a location in a port or harbour used specifically for mooring vessels while not at sea or for describing playoff positions for teams with no initial competition in sports. ...


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References

  1. ^ a b Dallas Convention Center - History. Retrieved 29 August 2006.
  2. ^ a b Dallas Convention Center - Facility Overview. Retrieved 29 August 2006.

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