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Dallas Market Heart
Dallas Marketplace Center (Trade Mart to the left, World Trade Center to the right)

Coordinates	32°48′11″Northward 96°49′30″W / 32.803°N 96.825°W / 32.803; -96.825 Coordinates: 32°48′11″N 96°49′30″W / 32.803°Northward 96.825°W / 32.803; -96.825
Inaugurated	1957 (Homefurnishings)
Expanded	1959 (Trade Mart) 1960 (Market Hall) 1964 (Clothes Mart) 1974 (World Trade Center)
Enclosed infinite
Public transit access	DART Lite Rail, Orange and Green lines (Market Heart station)

Dallas Marketplace Eye is a 5 million square foot (460,000 one thousand²) wholesale trade eye in Dallas, Texas, the U.s.a., located at 2200 Stemmons Freeway, housing showrooms which sells consumer products including gifts, lighting, home décor, apparel, fashion accessories, shoes, tabletop/housewares, gourmet, floral, and holiday products.^[ane] The marketplace is closed to the public but open up to certified retail buyers and interior designers, manufacturers, and industry professionals. Large-scale market events are held at the heart throughout the year. Dallas Market Center is owned past Dallas-based Crow Holdings and managed by Market Center Management Company (MCMC), a Crow Holdings subsidiary.

The center was the destination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy'southward motorcade when he was assassinated in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963.

The campus [edit]

The 4-building campus includes the World Trade Center, Trade Mart, International Trade Plaza (The Plaza), and Market place Hall. Inside these buildings, nearly ii,300 permanent showrooms offer more than than 35,000 product lines from manufacturers effectually the world.

Trammell Crow adult the nearby Dallas Decorative Center, which opened in 1955.^[2] ^[3]

The 2-story International Trade Plaza, which opened in 1957,^[two] is the first building at the electric current site of Dallas Market Center. The original proper noun for this building was the Dallas Homefurnishings Mart, designed by Donald H. Speck. The 434,000 foursquare feet (xl,300 m²) building was repurposed in 1999 every bit the International Floral & Gift Heart and later in 2012 equally The International Trade Plaza.^{[ commendation needed ]} The current name is the Interior Dwelling house + Blueprint Center following a renovation in 2017.^[4]

The Dallas Trade Mart, the second Dallas Market Heart building, was designed past Harold Berry, Donald Speck, and Harwell Hamilton Harris and opened its doors in 1958. The project provided 980,000 square anxiety (91,000 m²) of exhibit space and cost $12.64 million. Information technology is four stories alpine and the atrium at its eye is named The Grand Pavilion.^[4]

Market Hall, which opened in 1960 and is across Market Heart Boulevard from the rest of the campus, is the only building that is open to the public with more lx shows per year. It has 202,000 square feet (eighteen,800 thou²) of floor infinite.^[4]

In 1964, the Dress Mart opened for concern at a cost of $15 million with 1.half dozen million square feet (150,000 chiliad²) of space. For four decades, the building served every bit a trading centre for women's, men's, and children's apparel and accessories. Information technology closed in 2004, and the 600 tenants were moved to the Globe Trade Centre.^[5] ^[6] Today, apparel and accessories showrooms reside on the height floors of World Trade Center, and apparel trade events held at Dallas Market Middle attract buyers from around the world.

The largest building and centerpiece of the campus is the Earth Trade Center, opened in 1974 with 7 stories. Information technology was expanded in 1979 to accept 3.1 million foursquare feet (290,000 m²) of floor space and 15 stories.^[4] Inside the World Trade Center are showrooms including gifts, domicile accessories, lighting, floral, holiday, jewelry, rugs, toys, gourmet foods, piece of furniture, and linens.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Southwest Homefurnishings Mart c.1957
Dallas Trade Mart c.1958
Pergola in the Dallas Trade Mart G Courtyard c.1958
Market Hall (2018)
Dallas World Trade Heart (2018)

History [edit]

Dallas Market place Centre was founded in 1957 by existent estate developer Trammell Crow.^[7] The showtime merchandise event at Dallas Market place Center was held in July 1957 and was attended by ane,850 visitors. Today, the largest markets concenter more than than 50,000 attendees from all l states and 84 countries.

The Merchandise Mart was the destination of United States President John F. Kennedy'south motorcade on Nov 22, 1963 when he was assassinated in Dealey Plaza. He was scheduled to give a spoken communication to 2,600 people at a sold-out lunch in the Thousand Courtyard. Notable guests pending Kennedy's inflow included Market Middle partners Trammell Crow and John Stemmons; J. Erik Jonsson, one of the owners of Texas Instruments; and Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell.^[8] Special dispensation had been bundled to allow the Catholics to eat the planned steak main grade at the luncheon.^[9]

On October 12, 1964, English sculptor Elisabeth Frink created the bronze sculpture The Hawkeye which sits outside the main entrance today. It features a William Blake quote and a plaque which reads, "Placed in memorial by the friends of U.s.a. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy who awaited from his inflow at the Dallas Trade Mart on November 22, 1963 when he was assassinated in Dealey Plaza."

By the belatedly 1980s, Dallas Market Center comprised half dozen buildings with 6.nine million square feet (640,000 m²) of space housing 3,200 tenants employing threescore,000.^[5]

Merchandise events and markets [edit]

Dallas Market Middle hosts dozens of trade events throughout the year, including nine major markets attracting some 200,000 retail buyers.

The Accessories Resource Team (ART), the trade association for abode decorative accessories, partners with Dallas Market Center to sponsor the ARTS Awards gala held each January which recognizes excellence and accomplishment in retailing, manufacturing, blueprint, and representation.

The Toy Industry Association holds its Autumn Toy Preview at Dallas Market Center each autumn. This testify for mass market retailers is the toy industry'due south most important preview of products nether development for the following twelvemonth.

In popular media [edit]

Portions of the 1976 pic Logan's Run were filmed in the Apparel Mart. The 1984 slasher movie The Initiation was filmed in the World Trade Center.^[5]

References [edit]

^ Dark-brown, Steve (fourteen April 2016). "Major redo coming at Dallas Market Center northwest of downtown". Business organisation. The Dallas Morn News . Retrieved one November 2020.
^ ^a ^b /tartar, Clarissa (April 1984). "Anatomy of the Apparel Mart". D Magazine . Retrieved 9 May 2018.
^ "Decorative Heart Dallas". The Cultural Landscape Foundation . Retrieved ix May 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Well-nigh Our Campus". Dallas Market Center . Retrieved nine May 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Henderson, Jim (eleven May 2003). "Dallas' Apparel Mart to close". Houston Chronicle . Retrieved 9 May 2018.
^ "Dallas Apparel Mart is Endmost ..." (Press release). SGB Media. 3 February 2003. Retrieved ix May 2018.
^ "CNL Income Properties, Inc. Plans to Acquire Majority Involvement in Holding at Globe'southward Largest Wholesale Merchandise Mart" (Printing release). CNL Income Properties. 18 January 2005. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
^ "Fifty Years Ago at the Trade Mart in Dallas". HFN. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
^ Granberry, Michael (1 November 2013). "Unease, and then stupor followed expect at Trade Mart for JFK voice communication that never came". The Dallas Morning News . Retrieved 14 May 2018.

External links [edit]

Dallas Marketplace Center
Market Centre Management Visitor
Kennedy, John F. (22 November 1963). "Remarks Prepared for Commitment at the Trade Mart in Dallas, Texas". John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum . Retrieved 9 May 2018.
Logan's Run location: the DMC Apparel Mart (1970) on YouTube
merrick (xiv January 2007). "A Logan'southward Run Landmark Sees Terminal Day". Ain't Information technology Cool News . Retrieved 9 May 2018.