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Preston Center, Dallas

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Preston Center in Dallas, Texas
Preston Center in Dallas, Texas

Preston Center is a commercial center in north Dallas, Texas (USA), located around the intersection of Preston Road (State Highway 289) and Northwest Highway (Loop 12). The area has been a premier retail center in Dallas since its development in the 1950s, though the nearby NorthPark Center has provided significant competition. Around the Preston Center shopping complex lies both a significant amount of office space, totaling over 3,000,000 square feet (279,000 m2) and housing former President George W Bush's office, as well as some of the best residential neighborhoods in Dallas. University Park is to the south, a string of condos along Northwest Highway is to the east, and the Preston Hollow neighborhood is to the north.The development includes two 20-story office towers that opened during a construction boom of the late 1970s and early 1980s. As of 1989 many of the Preston Center buildings were partially vacant. During that year Terry Box of The Dallas Morning News said that the vacant buildings were perceived by residents of nearby Preston Hollow as "intrusive symbols of the city's failure to control its growth" and "have come to exemplify much of what is wrong with North Dallas." Around that time residents tried to pressure area politicians into making the development more low-rise and further removed from the Preston Hollow community.As of 2019 the families of many property owners had already owned the properties for some time.A municipal-owned parking garage serves Preston Center developments as the city is obligated to provide parking.As of 2019 several owners of Preston Center developments oppose redevelopment as it would interrupt their cash flow in the short term.

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Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery

Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery is a multi-faith cemetery located at 7405 West Northwest Highway in North Dallas, Texas, United States. It is owned by Service Corporation International. Among the notable persons interred here are: Mary Kay Ash (1918–2001), businesswoman Harry W. Bass Jr. (1927–1998), businessman Orville Bullington (1882–1956), lawyer and Republican politician Maureen Connolly (1934–1969), champion tennis player Grace Noll Crowell (1877–1969), poet Jim Cummins (1945–2007), NBC News reporter Roscoe DeWitt (1894–1975), architect Bill Forester (1932–2007), NFL linebacker (1953–1963) Greer Garson (1904–1996), British-American actress Pinky Higgins (1909–1969), Major League Baseball player and manager Ted Hinton (1904–1977), deputy sheriff involved in the capture of the bandits Bonnie and Clyde William Hootkins (1948–2005), actor Tom Hughes (1931–1994), managing producer of Dallas Summer Musicals H. L. Hunt (1889–1974), businessman, one of the wealthiest men in the world Neel Kearby (1911–1944), World War II Medal of Honor recipient Freddie King (1934–1976), blues musician Tom Landry (1924–2000), Hall of Fame head coach of Dallas Cowboys; cenotaph at Texas State Cemetery in Austin Cyrus Longworth Lundell (1907–1994), scientist Merlyn Mantle (1932–2009), author and widow of Mickey Mantle Mickey Mantle (1931–1995), Hall of Fame baseball player James F. Moriarty (1896–1981), decorated Brigadier general in the Marine Corps Clint Murchison Jr. (1923–1987), businessman, founder of Dallas Cowboys Wilbert Lee O'Daniel (1890–1969), governor of Texas and U.S. senator Jim Parker (1947–2019), lawyer and businessman, former CEO of Southwest Airlines. Ross Perot (1930–2019), business magnate, billionaire, philanthropist, and politician. B.M. "Mack" Rankin Jr. (1930–2013), businessman, co-founder of Freeport-McMoRan Gretchen Celeste Neff Rogers (1934–2020), Senior Vice President at Metropolitan Financial Savings and Loan August Schellenberg (1936–2013), Kanienʼkehá꞉ka actor Annette Strauss (1924–1998), mayor of Dallas, Texas John Tower (1925–1991), United States Senator from 1961 to 1985; cenotaph at Texas State Cemetery in Austin; the first Mrs. Tower, the former Lou Bullington (1920–2001), is also interred at Sparkman-Hillcrest. George Washington Truett (1867–1944), pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas from 1897 to 1944 Joseph Franklin Wilson (1901–1968), politician Charles Wyly Jr. (1933–2011), entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist and civic leader