In Texas, where everything is bigger and better, Dallas is no different. Known to locals as ""the big D"", Dallas is a big city in the world of business, especially banking, finance, and oil, with soaring skyscrapers dominating the skyline. The city is a sprawling metropolis that reaches all the way to Fort Worth.
Dallas
Many people come to Dallas for business or a convention and are delighted to find that Dallas has top-notch hotels and restaurants, shopping malls, and a thriving nightlife. Sports are a big source of entertainment with several professional sports teams located in the Dallas area. And with all that oil and cattle money finding a happy home here, it is no wonder the arts have a strong backing.
Dallas Neighborhoods
Dallas is a metropolitan city made up of many smaller towns and neighborhoods and is spread out over a large area. Many of the outer suburbs are mainly residential. The neighborhoods listed below have the most interest for visitors with hotels, restaurants, and entertainment.
Deep Ellum
Deep Ellum was a haven for musicians in the 1920's and up until I-75 was built in the 1940's, cutting it off from the rest of the downtown area. In recent years, Deep Ellum has been revitalized and is once again become a hotspot for musicians and artists. Deep Ellum has music, dance clubs, art galleries, restaurants and more.
Downtown Dallas
Downtown Dallas is the business center of the city and there are a number of hotels downtown to accommodate businessmen and women. The main entertainment area downtown is the West End Historic District, which has popular restaurants, nightclubs, retail shops, and a movie theater.
Greenville Avenue
Greenville Avenue is the favorite nightspot of Dallas with hopping nightclubs, trendy bars, and eclectic retail shops.
North Dallas
North Dallas lies north of downtown and into the northern suburbs and has some of the best shopping malls in Dallas.
UPTOWN DALLAS
Uptown Dallas, including Oak Lawn and Turtle Creek, is an upscale area of town and has some of the finest hotels, chic restaurants, art galleries, and shopping.
DALLAS CITY KIDS is being developed by National Children's Coalition to be a complete resource and activity guide for children and youth in the Greater Dallas area.
Christian De La Fuente spends his days breaking into other people's cars, authorities say, and he's just the sort of person Dallas police want to get off the streets with an initiative that kicked off Wednesday.
District Attorney Craig Watkins a wife Tanya has been hired to run the political campaigns of seven Dallas judges, three of whom her husband has endorsed.
The Texas Transportation Commission today rejected pleas from North Texas leaders who urged the commission to spend more on new road construction in the greater Dallas area.
As temperatures dip into the low 80s, providing a brief respite from the searing September, a crowd of people enter the side entrance of the Jewish Community Center in North Dallas.
An 86-year-old World War II veteran was robbed at knifepoint, bound, beaten with an iron, and left bleeding in a closet in his Far East Dallas home Wednesday morning.
In billiards, they call it slop. On a Monday night in Wisconsin when the manpower shortage is critical, the legs on the healthy players are dead and it's the end of a long road trip, the Mavericks will call it a pure shooter's bounce.
Seven judges who preside over criminal cases have hired the wife of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins as a political consultant for their 2010 re-election campaigns, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
If you missed Wednesday's point-counterpoint between Todd Archer and David Moore, you have only yourselves and an understandable lack of faith in two veteran beat writers to blame.
HOUSTON, Nov. 16, 2009 -- Targa Resources Partners LP announced today that Rene Joyce, Chief Executive Officer, will speak at the RBC Capital Markets MLP Conference to be held on November 19 - 20, 2009 at the Four Seasons Resort and Club, Dallas at Las Colinas.
More Dallas Vistor Information
Dallas Convention & Visitors
100 S Houston St
Dallas, TX Phone:(214) 571-1300
Convention & Visitors Bureau
325 N Saint Paul St, #700
Dallas, TX Phone:(214) 571-1000
