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Nice enough to make a Philadelphian smile about Dallas.
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Delicious Dallas, much more vibrant than I expected.
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Downtown Dallas and the surrounding core neighborhoods look like they are improving a lot and getting more vibrant!!! Awesome
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Dallas is looking great! It's finally getting vitality into the downtown! Forget the food, I'm more impressed that there weren't any freeway photos.
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Wow! This thread is amazing! This is my favorite Dallas thread.
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Best Dallas thread ever!!!
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"None of food"...this title made me LOLlerskatez.

Awesome pics, too!
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thanks for the awesome pics. big D is nicely underrated, i miss it. it's been 3 years, and it may be another 3 until i get back. but i look forward to it.

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Great photo set! Dallas looks like a pretty nice city!
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Great tour! I've never seen Dallas like this before.
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I miss living in Dallas. I grew up there and there's been a lot of positive change in the last few years.

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Thank you all for the kind words.
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What a great set of a great city. I love Fair Park.
I'm embarrassed to admit the 4th of July was my first trip down there since I moved here a couple of years ago and first time I have been back since I was a little kid. I plan on spending a helluva lot of time there during the State Fair because it is great. I feel like Fair Park is really underrated, even by those like me who live in Dallas.
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I'm embarrassed to admit the 4th of July was my first trip down there since I moved here a couple of years ago and first time I have been back since I was a little kid. I plan on spending a helluva lot of time there during the State Fair because it is great. I feel like Fair Park is really underrated, even by those like me who live in Dallas.
You get a lot of people who just say its in a bad neighborhood, and they never set foot there. They don't realize the immediate surroundings are not bad at all, light rail now stops right at the front gates, and that its been under constant renovation for the last 15 years. Even the "Cotton Bowl needs to be torn down" set seems to ignore the work that's been done on it. If they go through with the "green" project it will be even more incredible.
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Nice enough to make a Philadelphian smile about Dallas.
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Dallas, you're showing too much of your cool side. Better cover it up with more McMansions, lest you want to make the coastal elitists furious .
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You get a lot of people who just say its in a bad neighborhood, and they never set foot there. They don't realize the immediate surroundings are not bad at all, light rail now stops right at the front gates, and that its been under constant renovation for the last 15 years. Even the "Cotton Bowl needs to be torn down" set seems to ignore the work that's been done on it. If they go through with the "green" project it will be even more incredible.
The neighborhood directly across Perry from the Fair Park Station looked really cool. Some loft conversions, eateries and whatnot. Small neighborhood but real cool and hopefully the first of much more in that area.

As for the other neighborhoods, I spent a good chunk of the 4th inside Fair Park but I knew where the fireworks were going to be launched from so instead of standing in line to get ticket to watch it inside the Cotton Bowl, I set up shop on the Crosstown Expy/Fitzhugh bridge and in walking over there and then walking back to the MLK Station had some fantastic interactions with the locals. As I circled Fair Park that night I remember thinking that one day some developer is going to be down here and realize they can put up a Victory Park/West Village type development in that area. Not sure if that would be good or bad but there is a helluva lot of potential down there.

And FWIW, they did a great job on the exterior of the Cotton Bowl. I was afraid that since the city did the expansion on the cheap it would take away from the original Art Deco facade but it didn't at all. While modern, the clean exterior of the new additions compliments the original nicely.
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That's a beautiful assortment of photos you got there
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