The New Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center May Extend Deeper into Downtown

By Bethany Erickson, D Magazine
February 7, 2024

The new Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center will need to be altered and shifted north into downtown to accommodate construction on Interstate 30 and existing Union Pacific railroad tracks. City staff told a Dallas City Council committee on Monday that plans for the convention center now place the extension closer to the old Dallas Morning News headquarters, near Young and Houston streets.

Dallas voters in 2022 approved a two-cent increase in the city’s hotel occupancy tax to help pay for it. The tax revenue will repay nearly $3 billion in bond money that covers the costs of constructing the new convention center and investing about $300 million into improvements in Fair Park.