DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News
Not five years ago, the eastern slice of downtown Dallas, once bustling, was more urban blight than business district.
The towering Mercantile Building stood empty, as did the Dallas Grand Hotel, only their doorways full – with garbage and the smell of stale urine. Cut-rate parking lots proliferated, streetlights didn't work and a walk at night down its section of Commerce Street often proved dicey, if not outright dangerous.
Today, the Mercantile Building and a new, adjacent high-rise are filled with hundreds of apartment dwellers.
The Main Street Garden park, built on a city block bounded by Commerce, Main, Harwood and St. Paul streets, is nearing completion.
And earlier this month, the Texas Legislature approved creation of a University of North Texas law school, to operate by early next decade across Harwood Street in two soon-to-be-renovated Dallas municipal courts buildings.
Not five years ago, the eastern slice of downtown Dallas, once bustling, was more urban blight than business district.
The towering Mercantile Building stood empty, as did the Dallas Grand Hotel, only their doorways full – with garbage and the smell of stale urine. Cut-rate parking lots proliferated, streetlights didn't work and a walk at night down its section of Commerce Street often proved dicey, if not outright dangerous.
Today, the Mercantile Building and a new, adjacent high-rise are filled with hundreds of apartment dwellers.
The Main Street Garden park, built on a city block bounded by Commerce, Main, Harwood and St. Paul streets, is nearing completion.
And earlier this month, the Texas Legislature approved creation of a University of North Texas law school, to operate by early next decade across Harwood Street in two soon-to-be-renovated Dallas municipal courts buildings.
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