Portal:Dallas/Selected article/December 2006

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Downtown Dallas (or Central Business District) is the general term given to the geographic area within the central freeway loop in Dallas, Texas (USA). Although it has been contested, the area termed 'downtown' by most Dallas residents is bounded to the east by I-345 (although known and signed as the northern terminus of I-45 and the southern terminus of US 75 (Central Expressway)), to the west by I-35E, to the south.

The building boom of the 1970s and 1980s produced a distinctive contemporary profile for the downtown skyline, influenced by nationally prominent architects. At the same time, the establishment of the West End Historic District in the 1980s preserved a group of late-nineteenth-century brick warehouses that have been adapted for use as restaurants and shops.