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Celebree School Dallas Arts District Meets 360 Plan Education Vision – November 2023
DDI is proud to support the new Celebree School Dallas Arts District, a 10,000-square-foot early childhood education and childcare facility that will soon welcome nearly 200 children between ages six weeks and four years. Celebree, a DDI member organization, will help meet the growing demand for accessible early childhood education in the City Center. This is a vital goal of DDI's strategic 360 Plan, which calls for building complete neighborhoods in part by increasing opportunities for quality education at all ages to support the children of our workers and residents. Members of the DDI team assisted in finding a location and connecting school leadership with key contacts to make this vision a reality at The Galbraith building in the 2400 block of Bryan Street.
The school includes ten classrooms and a 5,000-square-foot urban garden, offering a vibrant learning landscape for children to explore and develop a love for nature and environmental responsibility. DDI team members were in attendance for last week's ribbon-cutting event (pictured). The school's welcome center at the old Dallas High School, 2218 Bryan Street (Suite 120), is still pre-enrolling students.
Downtown News & Notes ...
The long-awaited plan to connect the city's two streetcar systems through Downtown is picking up new momentum at Dallas City Hall. The Central Link would connect Uptown's McKinney Avenue Transit Authority (MATA) line to the Dallas Streetcar that runs through Oak Cliff and ends at Downtown's EBJ Union Station. Read more.
Robert Irwin, the celebrated artist behind Carpenter Park's Portal Park Slice, died last week at 95, The New York Times reports. Watch a short documentary about Irwin and his work on the Downtown Dallas sculpture below. Read more from D Magazine's Matt Goodman.
Congratulations to Downtown's Starship Bagel for taking home top awards at the New York BagelFest last month! In the heart of America's bagel capital, Starship Bagel competed against 30 top bagel shops from around the world and secured multiple impressive wins, including first place for "Best Bagel" and "Rising Star."
DDI Members In The News
-- Goldman Sachs, in partnership with Hunt Realty Investments and Hillwood Urban, broke ground last month on its new campus just north of the Central Business District. The state-of-the-art, 800,000-square-foot building located at 2323 North Field Street will be composed of two wings, with the tallest being 14 floors. It will house more than 5,000 employees. Read more.
-- Mark Lamster explores the beauty and history of what he says is the most beautiful building on the Dallas skyline, Fountain Place from architect Henry N. Cobb. Read more in Lamster's latest Dallas Morning News piece.
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-- Dallas College artists are getting a chance to display their work alongside that of renowned artists at the October REMIX Art Exhibition, FOX 4 reports. This exhibition at Adolphus Tower is a collaboration of DDI, Hoque Global, Dallas College School of Creative Arts, Entertainment and Design, and FGIII Fine Art Production. Learn more.
-- Philip Todd of Todd Interests credits DDI and our strategic 360 Plan for spurring the revitalization of Downtown, in this interview with the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce. Todd Interests, a DDI Board of Governors member, is behind transformative projects including The National, 400 North Ervay (U.S. Post Office building), and the East Quarter.
-- Midnight Rambler at The Joule is one of the best hotel bars in America, according to Wine Enthusiast.
-- Downtown's HALL Arts Hotel ranks number 7 on The Travel's list of "10 Best Eco-Friendly 5-Star Hotels." The Arts District hotel "proves that guests really can have it all," the report notes.
-- A new Nasher Sculpture Center exhibit traces a buried creek, the Dallas Branch, that runs under the museum, The Dallas Morning News reports. The work by artist Mary Miss, Stream Trace: Dallas Branch Crossing, includes a series of stainless steel posts planted along the path of the hidden stream.
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The Portal And The Park: The Story of Robert Irwin's Carpenter Park Sculpture
Carpenter Park in Downtown Dallas is home to renowned artist Robert Irwin's Portal Park Slice. This short documentary from the Downtown Dallas Parks Conservancy traces the history of the piece that was saved and reimagined by Irwin when Carpenter Park was redeveloped in recent years. The documentary includes an interview with Irwin, who died at 95 last week. Read more from D Magazine.
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