{"id":439382,"date":"2026-09-18T00:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439382\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T00:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:32:15","slug":"2-upcoming-meetings-to-hear-updates-on-the-viaducts-and-the-kay-bailey-hutchison-convention-center-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439382\/","title":{"rendered":"2 upcoming meetings to hear updates on the viaducts and the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Jefferson Viaduct heading into Downtown. Photo by Victoria Hernandez.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve been keeping track of the proposed Houston and Jefferson viaduct changes<\/a>, two meetings are coming up to present the latest updates, plus an opportunity to give input on a potential Houston Street name change.<\/p>\n

The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center<\/a>, which is currently undergoing renovations, was lowered in the latest design, affecting travel on the Jefferson Boulevard and Houston Street viaducts. The change came following a council request for cost savings in the convention center redesign and was maintained by a vote from council in June.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas Master Plan Community Town Hall Meeting<\/a> will be held Tuesday, Sept. 29 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Gilley\u2019s \u2013 Lone Star Room. The town hall will present project updates, host an interactive exhibition hall, and a Q&A.<\/p>\n

American Sign Language and Spanish interpretation will be available. To RSVP, click here<\/a>. Additionally, you can submit questions for the KBHCCD Master Plan Question and Answer Panel here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The second community meeting will discuss the future of the Houston and Jefferson viaducts and will take place Thursday, Oct. 1 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Methodist Dallas\u2019s Hitt Auditorium. District 1 Council member Chad West, City staff, the Department of Convention and Event Services, and the Department of Transportation and Public Works will present an updated plan for the viaducts.<\/p>\n

Lastly, council deferred an item on Wednesday, Sept. 9 to consider renaming the Houston Street bridge to Pettis Norman Bridge<\/a>. The name change was proposed in March, but the vote earlier this month at council was delayed due to a sign and noticing error.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The item will come back to council with two options: the initial formal street name change request or a ceremonial street name change, which would instead add a sign with the name for 10 years. Residents can provide input on the option in this survey<\/a> by Monday, Oct. 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jefferson Viaduct heading into Downtown. Photo by Victoria Hernandez. If you\u2019ve been keeping track of the proposed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11477,12080,102,104,103,27261,152178,152179,152180,9728,1648],"class_list":["post-439382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-community-meeting","tag-community-meetings","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-houston-street","tag-houston-viaduct","tag-jefferson-viaduct","tag-kay-bailey-hutchison-center","tag-kay-bailey-hutchison-convention-center","tag-town-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439382","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=439382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}