Dallas awards $17 million in contracts for downtown convention center-related projects

Written By KSG

Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas Morning News
February 29, 2024

The Dallas City Council on Wednesday approved two contracts worth up to a combined $17.5 million to firms that will oversee the renovation of the downtown convention center arena and The Black Academy of Arts and Letters.

The contracts are the latest steps in the city’s massive redevelopment plans for the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center and the surrounding area. The arena, also known as the Dallas Memorial Auditorium, and the academy are attached to the convention center. But both buildings will remain standing amid plans for the estimated nearly $3 billion rebuild of the convention center.

The Dallas Memorial Auditorium at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in 2021.(Elias Valverde II / Staff Photographer)

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