Dallas to tear down Kay Bailey Hutchison, replace with $2B downtown convention center
DALLAS — Dallas City Council on Wednesday voted 14 to 1 to tear down the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center and move forward with a new convention center to be located downtown.
The new convention center will cost $2 billion and construction is slated to begin in 2024 with estimated completion coming in 2026.
City staff say the new convention center will offer improved pedestrian access, better connectivity and give downtown Dallas an economic boost by attracting both out-of-town visitors as well as Dallas residents.
The lone dissenting council member, Cara Mendelsohn, said she wanted to see a cost analysis as well as some assurance that the convention center will be profitable in a post-COVID world.
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