[News Script: Deep Ellum] Page: 1 of 4
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The Deep Elm District of Dallas---or Deep Ellum as
the blues singers of another time called it---has the
most colorful and most violent past of any district
in the city. In the early decades of t his century
Deep Elm was a stopping place for murderers, thieves,
prostitutes, musicians and other people who were tZui
once thoughfof as "characters." Now Deep ANmN Elm
typlifies the city. It is changing. The old hotels
and pawnshops are coming down---and a freeway is
coming through
While change is new to Deep--it is not new to the
em(hirty years
rest of Dallas. In the past change has
been the usual thing.>oday---more than 100 blocks
of the downtown area are in transition from the old
to the new.
Roughly forty blocks on the south edge of town will
one day house the new Dallas City Hall and the
Convention center.C omplex.
Another thirty two blocks nearby has been tapped as
the site for one of the largest private urban
development in the world.
Ten blocks in the central downtown area are devoted
to Main P1ace. The first building in that group---
One Main Place---is nearing completion and should be
ready for occupancy &&rI iov bh
Twenty additional blocks throughout the area will
go for the -million dollar Fairmont Hotel, the
John F. Kennedy Memorial and a new Federal
center.I
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Deep Ellum], script, October 29, 1968; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1038232/m1/1/: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.