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Dallas ranks

as America’s
third-most

popular
destination
for business

travel.

CITY STRETCH:
Yoga at Klyde
Warren Park
PHOTO: © RITU JETHANI |
DREAMSTIME

on figuring taxes, recording registrations, relocating employees and startup processes SCENIC DRIVES Just 20 minutes northwest
are provided. For an excursion, follow the of Dallas, Irving is home to the
Already a city of colleges, universities and trade schools, Dallas bolsters its efforts Dallas Cowboys out to Frisco, Toyota Music Factory, offering
with a commitment to supporting and improving education to ensure every child has where the team relocated concerts and performances
the tools needed to one day enter and compete in the workforce. its world headquarters and in many of its two dozen
Vast city improvements back up these outreach efforts. Downtown, an urban green practice fields to The Star, a restaurants and bars, includ-
space now covers a once divisive section of the Woodall Rodgers Freeway. This new brand-new, 91-acre campus ing a branch of the popular
Klyde Warren Park provides walking trails; parks for children and dogs; a perfor- incorporating a state-of-the-art Alamo Draft House Cinema that
mance pavilion; and daily sessions of lectures, yoga and concerts. indoor stadium, restaurants screens films for dining movie
To relieve the notorious congestion on I-635 — aka the Lyndon B. Johnson and shops. Guided tours fans. Adjacent Las Colinas
Freeway — that loops the city, a 13-mile stretch of the northern side has been rebuilt allow fans to see Super Bowl features Old World Mandalay
and expanded with a section of six new underneath lanes operated as TEX-Express. memorabilia; take a stroll along Canals, a section of office
Tolled for congestion pricing, the lanes effectively double the thruway’s capacity and the Nike Star Walk, chronicling buildings, shops and restau-
ease commutes to the newly developing Dallas Midtown, a city within a city of office 10 milestones of the team’s rants where visitors stroll along
towers, condo units, luxury hotels, restaurants and boutiques, hiking trails and gyms, a history; and view the War tree-lined paths beside swim-
theater and a trolley system linking it to the Galleria Dallas mall. Room, where the annual NFL ming waterfowl. A breathtaking
Bus service and the nation’s longest light rail network support commuters. America’s draft is conducted. Nearby bronze sculpture of nine wild
largest contiguous arts center and the million-square-foot column-free exhibit hall sports complexes house local mustangs gallops across pink
of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center are additional attractive features hockey, baseball and soccer granite Williams Square, and an
of a city aiming to become “the most economically prosperous region — and the teams and the National Video- essential stop includes partak-
most desirable place to live, work and do business — in the United States.” DRC vice game Museum, where visitors ing of squash enchiladas at Via
president Jessica Heer projects unlimited potential: “Project activity is still strong, there is a can play on the world’s largest Reál, a beloved Southwestern-
lot of growth in population and companies, our future is bright.” Pong console. style restaurant.

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