Dallas is a city of over one million in northern Texas. Dallas
was founded in 1841 and received city rights in 1856, but was
only a minor town. In the 1870s, the city fathers, through cash
payments and privileges, got both the Houston and Central Texas
Railroad and the Texas and Pacific Railroad to reroute their
railroad lines through Dallas. This paid off and Dallas became
an important railway junction and transshipment point for goods
of all kinds. Industry, banks and insurance companies later
settled there.
With the 15-story Praetorian Building, the
first skyscraper in the western United States (west of the
Mississippi) was built here in 1905-09 (it was demolished in
2013). In the 1910s, the population passed the 100,000 mark.
Between 1910 and 1930, Dallas experienced its first heyday and
construction boom. Many historic buildings in the city center,
which are now listed buildings, were built during this time.
Architect George Dahl shaped the cityscape of Dallas like no
other - between 1927 and 1971 he designed numerous important
buildings, developing stylistically from historicist
Neo-Renaissance through Art Deco to international modernism. The
world-famous criminal couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who
were up to mischief in the USA in the early 1930s, came from
Dallas and were also buried here.
In the 1950s, the city
experienced another population boom and exceeded the mark of
half a million inhabitants. Texas Instruments, one of the
world's leading manufacturers of electronic devices for a long
time in the 20th century, was founded in Dallas and has its
headquarters here. It was here that an integrated circuit
(microchip) was manufactured for the first time in 1958, laying
the foundation for the development of the microprocessor and
thus for the digital revolution was laid. On November 22, 1963,
world attention was focused on Dallas when American President
John F. Kennedy was assassinated here.
In 1978, the
Dallas soap opera, about a wealthy and scheming family of oil
entrepreneurs, began airing and ran for 14 seasons through 1991,
becoming one of the most watched television series of all time.
In the 1970s and especially in the 1980s, numerous skyscrapers
were built, which today characterize the city skyline. One of
the companies that emerged from the breakup of the telecom
monopoly in 1982, Southwestern Bell, was based in Dallas. It
grew into AT&T, the world's largest telecom operator, in the
1990s and 2000s. In 1989, oil company Exxon (now ExxonMobil)
moved its headquarters to Irving, a northwest suburb of Dallas.
Around 1990 Dallas became a metropolis. The Dallas Mavericks
basketball team has been one of the most successful teams in the
NBA since the 2000s and is best known in Germany for its
longtime player Dirk Nowitzki.
The population of Dallas
(2010: 1.2 million) is composed of 42% Hispanic, 29%
“non-Hispanic White,” 25% African American, and 3% Asian,
according to census data. With its sister city Fort Worth, 50
kilometers to the west, Dallas forms a large metropolitan area
(“metroplex”) with a total of around 7 million inhabitants.
By plane
Dallas-Forth Worth Airport (IATA: DFW) is one of the
busiest in the world. Direct flights are z. B. offered from Frankfurt am
Main and Munich. DFW is also the hub of American Airlines and American
Eagle airlines, which fly here from almost every airport in the United
States. There is a Trinity Railway Express commuter train station near
the airport that runs at least every hour to downtown Dallas (journey
time a little over 30 minutes, ticket for $2.50). Alternatively, you can
take the DART Orange Line (light rail) directly from Airport Terminal A
to the city center. This takes about 50 minutes.
The older and
smaller Dallas Love Airport (IATA: DAL) is closer to the city center. It
is mainly used by the low-cost airline Southwest Airlines and Virgin
America. Both the orange and the green lines of the DART Light Rail stop
here. The journey to the city center takes 10-15 minutes.
By
train
Dallas Union Station (a 1916 neoclassical building worth
seeing) is served by long-distance Amtrak Texas Eagle trains from
Chicago (journey time 22 hours), St. Louis (15½ hours), Little Rock
(8:20 hours), San Antonio (7½ hrs) and Austin (5 hrs). There is also a
connection from Los Angeles (39 hours), Tucson (29 hours) and El Paso
(23 hours) three times a week. Early booking is highly recommended, as
the non-spare tickets are extremely expensive.
The Trinity
Railway Express (TRE) commuter train runs between Dallas and sister city
Fort Worth every hour (every half hour during morning and afternoon rush
hours). The journey takes about an hour and costs $5.
By bus
The Greyhound Network bus station is on South Lamar Street in the West
End Historic District, just west of downtown. Another stop is at
Westmoreland Station. Greyound offers numerous connections from
locations inside and outside of Texas.
Megabus long-distance
buses stop at the DART East Tranfer Center. The network offers service
from Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Little Rock, Houston, Austin and San
Antonio.
Dallas has a well developed public transport system called DART
(Dallas Area Rapid Transit). There is a light rail network (DART Light
Rail) with four lines marked in different colors with a total length of
150 kilometers. There is also a 4-kilometer streetcar line between
Central Station and the southwestern part of Oak Cliff, and the
7.5-kilometer M-Line, which features historic streetcars, runs along
McKinney Avenue in the Uptown area and through the Museum Quarter in the
northeastern part of downtown. Furthermore, DART operates over 100 bus
lines.
A day pass for all DART transport in the city area costs
$5, a 2-hour ticket $2.50, double that for the surrounding areas.
1 Wilson Building, 1623 Main Street (buses 205, 278, 722 "Main &
Ervay"). Historic commercial building built 1902-04. The design is based
on the architecture of the French Second Empire with ornamental details
reminiscent of the Opera Garnier in Paris. Originally the
Titche-Goettinger department store was here, after which the building
housed a low-priced household goods store until 1997. After being
vacant, it was extensively remodeled as part of an urban development
project, and loft apartments are now housed here.
2 Neiman Marcus
Building, 1618 Main Street (across from Wilson Building). Historic
Neo-Renaissance commercial building from 1914. Headquarters of the
luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus.
3 The Adolphus Hotel,
1321 Commerce Street (bus (many lines) "Commerce & Field" or DART Light
Rail (all lines) "Akard Station"). Impressive 22-storey luxury hotel
built in 1912 in the Beaux-Arts style. For a long time it was the most
prestigious hotel in the city and until the completion of the Magnolia
Building it was also the tallest building in Dallas. Today it is a
listed building, but is still used as a four-star hotel with 422 rooms.
The ghost of a bride who was abandoned by her groom before the wedding
is said to haunt the 19th floor.
4 Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm Street
(bus (many routes) "Elm & Harwood" or DART Light Rail (all routes) "St
Paul Station"). The Neo-Renaissance style vaudeville and cinema with
2800 seats was opened in 1921. Houdini, Mae West and Bob Hope performed
here, John Wayne, James Stewart and Gregory Peck attended film
premieres, the big bands of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway performed
here. The musical horror satire The Phantom in Paradise was filmed at
the Majestic Theatre. It was the grandest theater on Dallas' Theater Row
along Elm Street. The rest were all demolished in the 1970s to make way
for skyscrapers, only the Majestic is a listed building and has
survived.
5 Magnolia Hotel, 1315 Commerce Street / 108 S. Akard
Street (Bus 205, 208, 210, 278, 722 "Main & Akard" or DART Light Rail
(all lines) "Akard Station") . 122 meter high, 29-story Beaux-Arts and
Neo-Renaissance style building constructed in 1921-22 as the
headquarters of the Magnolia Petroleum Company, later Mobil Oil. After
the oil company moved to a more modern building, the Magnolia Building
was renovated and has served as a posh hotel since 1997.
6
Titche-Goettinger Building, 1900 Elm Street / 1901 Main Street (Bus 205,
206 "St Paul & Main" or 278, 722 "Main & St Paul"). Historic 1929
department store designed by George Dahl in Neo-Renaissance style. The
department store was closed in 1987, followed by a redesign and
conversion. Today, the classrooms of various universities (Universities
Center at Dallas) are housed here.
7 Mercantile National Bank Building, 1800 Main Street (Buses 205,
278, 722 "Main & Ervay") . Built in 1943, 159 meters high skyscraper in
classic modern style. It was the tallest building in Dallas from its
completion until 1954.
8 The Drever (formerly First National Bank
Tower and Elm Place), 1401 Elm Street (Bus 206, 722 "Field & Elm" or
DART Light Rail (all lines) "Akard Station"). The 52-storey skyscraper
was designed by architects George Dahl and Thomas E. Stanley and is in
the International Style. Completed in 1965, it was the tallest building
in Dallas at the time, but was superseded by the Renaissance Tower in
1974 and is now only 10th (since the 1980s). First National Bank has
since been merged into Bank of America and since In 2009/10 most of the
offices were empty. The building was then extensively renovated and
converted and has been used as a luxury hotel and apartment complex
since 2018.
9 Renaissance Tower, 1201 Elm Street (bus (many lines)
"Elm & Field" or DART Light Rail (all lines) "Akard Station"). 270 meter
high office tower in the style of international modernism with a
striking glass facade. It was the city's tallest building from its
completion in 1974 until it was supplanted by the Bank of America Plaza.
10 Reunion Tower (colloquially "The Ball"), 300 Reunion Boulevard (DART
Blue or Red Line or TRE or Tram 620 "Union Station"). 171 meter high
viewing and restaurant tower (with revolving restaurant). It was
designed by architects Welton Becket. One of Dallas' landmarks. Open:
viewing platform Sun-Thurs 10.30am-8.30pm, Fri-Sat 10.30am-9.30pm;
Restaurant Sun-Thu 5pm-10pm, Fri-Sat 5pm-11pm, bar & lounge one hour
longer. Price: Admission $17, Senior $14, Child (4-12 years) $8, Day and
night ticket for two visits on the same day $22/19/13.
11 Dallas City
Hall, 1500 Marilla Street (Bus 026 "Marilla & Akard"). The modern town
hall was inaugurated in 1978. It was designed by architects I. M. Pei
and Theodore Musho. It is in the shape of an inverted pyramid and is
seven stories high. Sculptures by Henry Moore stand in the forecourt.
12 Bank of America Plaza, 901 Main Street (bus 024, 206, 278 "Main &
Griffin" or numerous lines "Elm & Lamar" or DART Light Rail (all lines)
"West End Station"). 72-story skyscraper (281 meters high) erected in
1985 - the tallest structure in Dallas. At night, the outline of the
building is accentuated with green argon lighting.
Most museums, exhibitions and cultural institutions are concentrated
in the so-called Arts District in the northeast of downtown.
13
Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), 1717 North Harwood Street (205 "Harwood &
Ross" bus or M-Line "St Paul & Woodall Rogers" tram). Tel: +1 214 922
1200. Large art museum. The collection ranges from ancient art from the
Mediterranean region to South Asian, African and pre-Columbian art from
the American double continent, European art from the Baroque to the
Modern and North American art from the colonial period to the 20th
century to contemporary art as well as design and decorative arts from
various eras and cultural areas. Highlights include some French
Impressionist works (Cézanne, Manet, Monet etc.) from the Wendy and
Emery Reves Collection. Open: Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun 11am-5pm, Thu
11am-9pm, closed on Mondays. Price: Admission free.
14 Crow
Collection of Asian Art, 2010 Flora Street (Bus 205 "Harwood & Ross" or
Tram M-Line "Olive & Flora"). Collection of Asian art donated by husband
and wife Trammell and Margaret Crow with over 4000 exhibits from China,
Japan, India and Southeast Asia. Open: Tue-Thu 10am-9pm, Fri-Sat
10am-6pm, Sun 12pm-6pm, closed on Mondays. Price: Admission free.
15
Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora Street (across from Dallas Museum of
Arts and Crow Collection). Collection of modern and contemporary
sculpture donated by Patsy and Raymond Nasher, including works by
Matisse, Miró, Picasso and Rodin. The exhibition is partly indoors,
partly in the adjoining garden. Open: Tue-Sun 11am-5pm, closed on
Mondays. Price: Admission $10, seniors $7, students $5, kids under 12
free, first Saturday of each month free.
16 Dallas Contemporary, 161
Glass Street (Bus 063 "Market Center & Irving"). Contemporary Art
Museum. Open: Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 12pm-5pm. Price: Admission free.
17 Dealey Plaza, Roughly bounded by Pacific Ave., Market St., Jackson St. and right of way of Dallas Right of Way Management Company (Bus 161, 278 "Main & Record" or DART Light Rail (all lines) "West End Station"). Triangular, leafy square at the west end of downtown. This is where John F. Kennedy was shot dead on November 22, 1963.
Fair Park, Bounded by Texas and Pacific RR, Pennsylvania, Second, and
Parry Aves. (DART Light Rail (all lines) "Fair Park Station")
wikipediacommons. 112 hectare public park created from 1906. The 1936
Texas Centennial Exposition was held here, with numerous exhibition
halls designed by architect George Dahl in Art Deco style. Consequently,
here is one of the most important Art Deco ensembles in Texas. It is
registered as a US National Historic Landmark. The facility's landmark
is the Hall of State, and the site also includes natural history and
African American art museums, an artificial lake, an aquarium, a
botanical garden, a theater, an outdoor theater, and a football stadium.
The approximately 900 meter wide strip on both sides of the Trinity
River has been left as a floodplain and green area (Dallas Floodway).
The Sylvan Avenue Bridge section is styled as Trammell Crow Park (bus
063, 405 "Irving & Wycliff"). There's a small lake, soccer fields,
sculptures of cows, a boat dock, and most importantly, walking paths
with spectacular views of the Dallas skyline.
Watch a Dallas Mavericks basketball game, a Dallas Stars hockey game,
a Dallas Cowboys football game, or a Texas Rangers baseball game
1
American Airlines Center, 2500 Victory Avenue (DART Green or Orange Line
or TRE "Victory Station" or Bus 49 "Houston & Payne"). In the
multifunctional arena with 21,000 seats, both basketball and ice hockey
games are played, and concerts are also held here.
2 AT&T Stadium, 1
AT&T Way, Arlington, TX 76011 (in the suburbs about 30 km west of
downtown Dallas). Located between Dallas and Fort Worth, the 80,000-seat
football stadium has been the athletic home of the Dallas Cowboys since
2009.
3 Globe Life Park in Arlington, 1000 Ballpark Way, Arlington,
TX 76011 (18 miles west of downtown Dallas). The 48,000-seat Rangers
ballpark is also located halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth.
4
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301 Flora Street (210 bus, 722
"Pearl & Flora" or tram M-Line "Olive & Flora"). City Concert Hall, home
to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Chorus, and Dallas
Wind Symphony. The building was designed by I.M. Pei designed and
inaugurated in 1989. According to experts, the concert hall has
excellent acoustics.
AT&T Performing Arts Center - Inaugurated in
2009, the city's cultural center in the Arts District offers a variety
of performing arts venues: opera and musical theatre, classical and
experimental theatre, ballet and other forms of dance (see website for
schedule of all associated venues and companies)
5 Dallas Opera
(Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House), 2403 Flora Street. Founded in
1957, the opera company has been performing in the modern opera house
since 2009, which is also used by the Texas Ballet Theater.
6 Annette
Strauss Square (immediately behind the Opera House). Open-air stage with
5000 spectator seats.
7 Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, 2403 Flora
Street (Bus 024, 031 "Ross & Leonard"). The Dallas Theater Center,
Dallas Black Dance Theater and Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico
perform here.
8 Dallas City Performance Hall, 2520 Flora Street (Bus
024, 031 "Ross & Routh"). Municipal event hall with a changing program
(e.g. modern dance theatre, choir concerts, etc.)
Dallas is the administrative seat of Dallas County. Portions of the
city extend into neighboring counties of Collin, Denton, Kaufman and
Rockwall.
According to the US Census Bureau, the city has a total
area of 997.1 km², of which 887.1 km² is land and 42.5 km² is water
(11.03%). Dallas forms one-fifth of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan
area, which is home to approximately one-fourth of all Texans.
Dallas has a subtropical climate with mild winters (around 15 °C) and hot summers (around 35 °C). In winter, however, frost and snowfall can also occur. During the summer months temperatures above 40 °C are repeatedly reached. About 850 mm of precipitation falls per year. The temperature extremes are between −18 °C and 45 °C. The city is also in a tornado prone area.
The Dallas area was a Native American area of Caddo before it became
part of the Spanish province of New Spain, or Texas, in the 16th
century. Modern-day Dallas remained under Spanish rule until 1821, when
Mexico declared its independence from Spain. The area of future Dallas
became part of the state of Coahuila y Tejas in the new nation. The
Republic of Texas separated from Mexico in 1836 and remained an
independent country for almost ten years.
In 1839, after four
years in the Republic, John Neely Bryan surveyed the area around Dallas,
and two years later founded the city of Dallas there. In 1846, the
United States annexed the Republic of Texas and Dallas County was
formed. It is believed that the county and city were named after George
M. Dallas, the eleventh Vice President of the United States at the time.
However, Bryan only commented that it was named "after my friend
Dallas".
Dallas received city rights in 1856. The city had few
slaves, brought mostly by settlers from Alabama and Georgia. Dallas was
just a small town in the Texas borderlands until after the American
Civil War, when Dallas was part of the Confederate States of America,
and didn't officially become a city until 1871. The city paid the
Houston and Central Texas Railroad $5,000 to move the proposed rail line
20 miles west through Dallas. The following year, the city fathers gave
the Texas and Pacific Railroad legal perks if they rerouted their
railroad through Dallas as well. In 1873, the two main Texas railway
lines (north-south and east-west) crossed in Dallas and the future as a
commercial center was secured.
In 1890 the Roman Catholic Diocese
of Dallas was established in the city. The Cathedral Shrine of the
Virgin of Guadalupe is the principal church of the diocese.
By
the turn of the century, Dallas was becoming the premier market for
drugstores, books, jewelry, and liquor in the Southwest United States
and a trading center for cotton, grain, and buffalo products. It quickly
became the world's leading cotton domestic market and was also able to
establish itself as the market leader in saddlery and in the
construction of cotton ginning machines. Thus, in the early 20th
century, Dallas rapidly transitioned from an agricultural center to a
center for banking, insurance, and other commerce.
In 1930, oil
was discovered 100 miles east of Dallas, and the city quickly became the
center of the oil industry in Texas and Oklahoma. In 1958 Jack Kilby
invented the integrated circuit at Texas Instruments; thus began the
development of the area as a center for high technology manufacturing.
During the 1950's and 1960's, Dallas became the third largest technology
center in the United States. This is how companies like
Ling-Tempco-Vought (LTV Corporation) and Texas Instruments came into
being. In 1957, two real estate developers (Trammell Crow and John M.
Stemmons) opened a furniture market that later became the Dallas Market
Center, now the largest wholesale market in the world.
On
November 22, 1963, then-US President John F. Kennedy was shot dead on
Elm Street while his motorized escort was driving through Dealey Plaza
in downtown Dallas.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Dallas experienced a
veritable building boom that gave the downtown area its prominent
silhouette. T. was influenced by famous architects. With some of the oil
industry moving to Houston and the burgeoning computer and
telecommunications markets, Dallas began to focus the core industry on
the technology sector. In the late 1980s, Dallas' economy almost
collapsed during the savings and loans crisis. Hundreds of building
shells remained unfinished. Due to the huge worldwide success of the
television series Dallas, the city became one of the most prominent US
cities in the 1980s. In the early 1990s, the economy recovered
significantly. Dallas was nicknamed "Silicon Prairie" after California's
Silicon Valley because of its high-tech industry.
Five police
officers were killed and seven officers and two others injured in the 7
July 2016 assassination attempt on Dallas police officers. The
assassination was the deadliest targeted attack on law enforcement
officials in the United States to date. Dallas is home to the
Presidential Library of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United
States.
According to the 2010 census, the population was 28.8 percent white and 24.7 percent African American; 6.3 percent were of Asian descent; 0.7% were Native Americans. 42.7 percent of the population was Hispanic. The median income per household in 2015 was US$50,270. 17.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
The city and surrounding area of Dallas developed into a bastion of the Democratic Party in the 21st century. In the 2004 US presidential election, 57% of city voters voted for Democratic candidate John Kerry. In Dallas County as a whole, 49% voted for Kerry and 50% for George W. Bush. In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, Barack Obama received 57% in Dallas County and even higher percentages in the city. In the 2016 election, around 66% voted for Hillary Clinton, compared to just 28% of city voters for Donald Trump. Dallas County as a whole voted 61% for Clinton, 35% for Trump. In 2004, Dallas County's only female sheriff, Lupe Valdez, was elected in Dallas County and was re-elected in 2008.
The Dallas metropolitan area generated $511.6 billion in economic
output in 2016. The gross domestic product per capita is 65,154 US
dollars. A 2014 study ranked Dallas 18th among the top 10 most
prosperous metropolitan areas in the world and 6th in the United States.
The unemployment rate in Dallas is 3.4% as of May 2018, below the
national average.
The city was an important center of the oil and
cotton industries due to its strategic location on numerous railway
lines. Today the economy is mainly determined by the telecommunications,
computer, financial services and transport industries.
Dallas is
also the second largest center of the US computer game development
industry. Many successful development studios have made their home in
Dallas or the surrounding area, including id Software, 3D Realms,
Ensemble Studios, Gearbox Software, and Ritual Entertainment, among
others.
Well-known companies
AT&T, telecommunications company
Builders FirstSource, builders merchant
CBRE Group, real estate
service provider
Celanese, chemical company
Dean Foods, dairy
company
Greyhound Lines, operator of long-distance bus services
HollyFrontier, operator of oil refineries
Kronos International,
manufacturer of chemical products
Mary Kay, cosmetics sold through
direct sales
Neiman Marcus, department store chain founded in Dallas
Regus, offers Virtual Offices
Southwest Airlines, airline company
Texas Instruments, semiconductor manufacturer and manufacturer of the
first integrated circuit
light rail
Rail-bound public transport in Dallas and the
surrounding area is operated by the Dallas Light Rail. The Dallas Area
Rapid Transit transit company also operates the Dallas streetcar and has
an interest in the M-Line uptown.
air traffic
Dallas-Fort
Worth International Airport (DFW), located midway between Dallas and
Fort Worth, is the busiest airport in the state of Texas, the fourth
busiest in the United States, and the eighth busiest in the world. DFW
International Airport is larger than Manhattan in terms of area. In 1999
more than 60 million passengers were handled here. Various airlines have
their headquarters at DFW International Airport. Among them is the
largest airline in the world, American Airlines. With more than 800
daily takeoffs and landings, American Airlines accounts for the majority
of flight operations.
In addition to DFW International Airport,
there is Love Field Airport (DAL), which was the city's main airport
until Dallas-Fort Worth Airport opened.
The downtown Arts District includes the Dallas Museum of Art, the
Crow Museum of Asian Art, the Dallas Opera, the Dallas Theater Center's
Wyly Theater, the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, the Trammell &
Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center. The
district is also home to the locally renowned Booker T. Washington High
School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Other nationally known
museums and galleries are the Dallas Contemporary art gallery with
changing exhibitions and the Meadows Museum (in the University Park
enclave), which shows an important collection of Spanish art.
The
Kalita Humphreys Theater, built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1959, was the
former venue of the Dallas Theater Center and has been used by various
independent groups since 2009. The Deep Ellum neighborhood became
popular as the jazz and blues center of the American South during the
1920's and 1930's. Among others, musicians such as Blind Lemon
Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter and Bessie Smith
played in the local clubs. Today, numerous artists live in Deep Ellum,
who have their studios in addition to pubs, bars and venues. The sprayer
scene has also proliferated in Deep Ellum, with numerous graffiti and
murals covering tunnels, buildings, sidewalks and streets.
Buildings
Downtown Dallas is characterized by several tall buildings.
The tallest structure in the city is the Bank of America Plaza
skyscraper, which was completed in the mid-1980s and is 281 meters high.
The tallest building up to that point was the Renaissance Tower, which
was 270 meters high and had 56 floors. The Dallas City Hall, in which
the city government is located, stands out due to its architecture,
which is partly reminiscent of an inverted pyramid.
In addition
to the high-rise buildings, the skyline is also characterized by the
171-meter-high Reunion Tower, which stands out with a geodesic dome as a
tower basket. The Majestic Theater was the city's first listed building
in 1977. The curving Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge opened in 2012.
Dallas is known for its barbecue specialties and Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine. Famous spots include El Fenix, Mi Cocina, Bone Daddy's Barbeque and The Mansion on Turtle Creek. Dallas has more restaurants per capita than New York City.
Dallas has the following national league teams:
Dallas Cowboys
(NFL; American Football)
Dallas Desperados (Arena Football League,
Arena Football)
Dallas Mavericks (NBA; basketball)
Dallas Stars
(NHL; ice hockey)
FC Dallas (MLS, football)
The Texas Rangers
(baseball) are based in the suburb of Arlington.
The Cotton Bowl
Stadium is Dallas' traditional sports stadium.