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This fall, when the Dallas Mavericks basketball team takes the court and the Dallas Stars don their hockey skates, they will do so in a new $420 million downtown arena, where fans can dine on tortilla soup and sushi, watch replays on an 80,000-lb. scoreboard and anticipate the day (coming soon) when Internet data ports at their seats will keep them wired even when the action below does not. Chances are no one will be giving a second thought to the toxic mess that was here just four years ago--an industrial wasteland of asbestos and lead, arsenic...
...potential for reuse. Rising from the ashes of a 100-year-old city dump, a railroad maintenance facility, an aging power plant and a row of abandoned grain silos, the Victory project is a $1 billion development catering to road-weary Dallasites who want to live, work and play downtown...
...Victory is a model for brownfield development. What used to be an empty field has real potential to boost downtown Dallas," says local EPA boss Stan Hitt, whose offices overlook the arena site. Mayor Ron Kirk, who supported the project despite early opposition in town, is fairly beaming. "The manufacturers and polluters abandoned this 30 years ago, but we've cleaned it up and put it back on the tax rolls," he says. And Victory is just one big win for Dallas. Not counting that project, the city has leveraged $600,000 in EPA grants into $835 million in private...
...dirt cheap: $12 million for the one-mile-long site that will house the arena and 8 million sq. ft. of apartments, offices, stores and entertainment. The scrub was difficult, involving 25-plus parcels of land with virtually no records on possible contaminants. To complicate matters, 40% of downtown Dallas' electricity and all its natural-gas lines ran through the property. No one knew that 10 acres of incinerated junk--the charred remains of everything from hospital bedpans to whiskey bottles--lay buried beneath the surface...
...satisfy your Full House fervor with “The B.J. Show” this year), and David Alan Grier. Even though the concert was, for the most part, Detroit Diva-free (Madonna and Aretha Franklin are from Detroit, too), my best friend and I decided to drive downtown and check out the scene...