Cliche that Downtown Dallas is Dead Needs to Die

Dallas Morning News
Rudolph Bush // December 23, 2009

Back in the 90s, when I was in college here, it was just a fact that downtown was shutdown after dark.

Passing Central from Deep Ellum was like coming into another world.

As plan commissioner Michael Davis points out on his blog today, some people are still holding on to that idea of downtown.

But it really doesn't reflect the changes in downtown that you can almost watch week to week, particularly along Main Street.

As Davis writes today: Even on a Tuesday night, several places were popping. I went to PM Lounge in the basement of the Joule for a party. At 9pm, it was already full. People were lounging on the patio of Charlie Palmer. A few student-aged kids were walking around taking pictures and surveying the scene.