Las Colinas’ Urban Center was planned to rival downtown Dallas
The Mandalay Canal in Las Colinas was built in the 1970s and connects buildings in the project's Urban Center.Just-approved zoning for an Irving corporate campus and mixed-use development will fill a strategic vacant block in Las Colinas.
“His vision was tilted more toward office and not as much residential,” Carpenter said. “But what has unfolded has been a result of the market.” “They were taking half of modern Las Colinas out of the flood plain of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River,” he said. “It was something that would probably never be done today.”
Part of the original Urban Center construction included a system of canals that aren’t visible from nearby freeways and have lost significance in recent years. Ben Carpenter built the waterways that wind between office towers on the east side of State Highway 114 after seeing the canals of Europe.
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