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Dallas council hears updated convention‑center design, tighter budget and construction progress
Summary
City staff and the master‑plan team presented a refined schematic for the replacement Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center — keeping 750,000 sq ft contiguous exhibit space, 180,000 sq ft of meeting rooms and a 105,000‑sq‑ft ballroom — and reported construction staging for FIFA IBC, DART cocooning, early demolition and finance updates including a $1.0B bridge loan and revised long‑term financing plans.
City staff and design and construction consultants presented a design-development update and construction-progress report for the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center replacement project.
The design team said the revised plan keeps the marketable program areas previously promised: 750,000 contiguous square feet of exhibit space, roughly 180,000 square feet of meeting rooms and a 105,000‑square‑foot rooftop ballroom. Populous and Perkins&Will noted the design has been refined for efficiency — the team reduced the vertical building profile by roughly 16 feet and simplified vertical circulation — while preserving sellable square footage. “What you see before you today…is a more efficient, better building than we presented in May,” said Tom Reisenbichler of the design team.
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