The Dallas City Council will be formally briefed Feb. 2 on four options to revamp the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center and could decide to vote on...
The Dallas City Council could vote early next month on whether to approve anor go for cheaper renovation options.
The city charges 13% taxes on a hotel room. Dallas typically keeps 7% and the state gets the rest. The increase to 15% is estimated to bring in about $1.5 billion over 30 years.in October approved asking the state to designate a three-mile area around the convention center as a “project financing zone,”
City staff and a consultant group hired to come up with a 10-year redevelopment plan for the convention center have been pushing for the city to demolish the existing building and construct a new 2.5 million square-foot convention center nearby. The current 2 million square foot convention center doesn’t have enough rooms, modern updates or surrounding amenities to allow the city to draw the most lucrative events and be competitive with other cities nationwide, they say. Building a new facility has the greatest chance of sparking more development downtown and bring in billions in spending and new property taxes from the area.
The fourth option is a variation of the rebuild plan that would see the entire exhibit floor area built underground. The convention center has $500 million to $700 million in maintenance needs, Dallas’ director for convention and event services Rosa Fleming told council members during a Tuesday meeting. The needs include a new roof, escalators and other whole parts of the building that would ultimately need to be reconstructed for upgrades.
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