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Fair Park would get $300 million to upgrade 6 buildings including the Band Shell. The Cotton Bowl would get better concourses. The Automobile Building would get restoration.
“Those contractors need to look like our city and I think they need to have a big part of it,” Medrano said.Craig Davis, CEO of Visit Dallas, the agency charged with selling Dallas to meeting planners, said the city has lost 1,000 events to other cities over the past 15 years because the existing facility lacks features other cities have.
State Representative Rafael Anchia said the formula to help Fair Park and the Convention Center was the result of heavy lifting at the Texas Legislature. “This is going to be a win for a lot of different people that have been left behind in Dallas,” Anchia said. In February when the Dallas City Council voted to proceed with design of a new convention center and again in May when it voted to put this referendum on the November ballot, the only member voting against it was Cara Mendelsohn.Among other things, Mendelsohn questioned whether convention business will return to prior levels after the COVID-19 pandemic. She said adjacent landowners who will benefit from the improvements should participate in the risks.
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