{"id":26991,"date":"2025-10-30T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/26991\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:27:09","slug":"state-of-downtown-dallas-highlights-growth-safety-and-new-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/26991\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Downtown Dallas highlights growth, safety and new development"},"content":{"rendered":"

A high volume of foot traffic made up of the area’s workforce, city visitors and residents, was in full view for the State of Downtown Dallas on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The city’s central business district is trying to maintain the theme of being the centerpiece of the Dallas-Fort Worth region, with a focus on three areas:<\/p>\n

providing more residential space downtownexpanding visitor attraction \u00a0keeping Downtown Dallas’ crime down \u00a0More residential space in Downtown Dallas<\/p>\n

The largest skyscraper in downtown is being remodeled as a hotel, residential and business center and there are brand new living spaces being built near a farmers’ market.<\/p>\n

Housing developer Mike Blackwell, who built new housing near Dallas City Hall, believes the Big D is about to get much bigger in the center of the city.<\/p>\n

“We will find opportunities, city leaders will find opportunities to keep and\/or relocate large-scale development that could include sports teams, a corporate employer or two,” said Blackwell. “But I think the future is a series of residential neighborhoods, and the way to do that is to convert parking lots into neighborhoods.”<\/p>\n

Expand visitor attraction in Downtown Dallas<\/p>\n

There’s the new convention center <\/a>currently under construction, and the city hopes to get a Mavericks sports arena near that convention center.<\/p>\n

Mike Hoque is redeveloping Downtown Dallas’ tallest building into a hotel and residential tower. He’s also building a combo hotel, housing and educational hub next to Dallas City Hall.<\/p>\n

“If you have 30-40 acres, and we have 20 acres, it’s a huge district just like the American Airlines site that you see today,” said Hoque.<\/p>\n

Keep Downtown’s crime activity down<\/p>\n

Police Chief Daniel Comeaux said Wednesday morning that more Dallas police officers are being assigned to downtown.<\/p>\n

Comeaux also said that crime is down and patrols are up.<\/p>\n

“Everything is trending downward in Downtown,” said Comeaux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high volume of foot traffic made up of the area’s workforce, city visitors and residents, was in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[102,4081,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-26991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-police-department","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}