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Belmont Park, Dallas

Neighborhoods in Old East Dallas

Belmont Park is a neighborhood in Old East Dallas, Texas (USA). The neighborhood is located near the area now known as Cityplace and also near Uptown. The boundaries of the neighborhood are N. Carroll Ave., Coles Manor Pl., Kirby St. and Weldon St. as shown in the City Of Dallas Plat filed April 8, 1944, Recorded in Volume 8 - 126 & 127. It is 2 miles from the center of Downtown Dallas. The neighborhood consists of a collection of houses constructed in 1943 & 1944. The houses were known as GI homes as they were built for soldiers returning from World War II. The houses are built on an area that was once the Belmont Park Golf Course. The neighborhood is surrounded by upscale apartments and retail and is close to restaurants, retail stores and the Arts District. It is one of the few neighborhoods where homes are still available close to downtown Dallas versus apartments.

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Belmont Park, Dallas
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Calvin Street 2510
75204 Dallas
Texas, United States
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Cityplace/Uptown station
Cityplace/Uptown station

Cityplace/Uptown station (formerly Cityplace station) is a DART Light Rail station located in Dallas, Texas. It is located beneath North Central Expressway (US 75) at Haskell Avenue in the Cityplace district. As an infill DART station, it opened on December 18, 2000 as the first public subway station in the Southwest (the Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, though open to the public, was a privately owned light rail).The station is tri-level in design, reaching depths of 120 feet (37 m) beneath North Central Expressway. The south end of the platforms are reached from the surface via stairs, three pairs of escalators, or elevators (3 traditional and 2 inclined elevators). The station is shared between the Red, Orange, and Blue lines. The east entrance is located at the base of Tower at Cityplace, serving that tower and surrounding retail. The west entrance serves West Village, the M-line Trolley and Uptown area. Original station plans allowed for another set of entrances at the north end of the platforms, which could serve future development north of Haskell Boulevard. Cityplace remains the only underground station on the DART rail system (the nearby Knox-Henderson station was deferred after community opposition, and subway stations built under the D2 Subway project are still in the planning stage). The other two remaining stations for the tunnel are Pearl/Arts District and Mockingbird. Both of these stations are outside the tunnel. On July 30, 2012, Cityplace station was renamed as Cityplace/Uptown station as part of the service changes effective for that date to better reflect new identities created by their evolving neighborhoods or surrounding developments.

Knox–Henderson station

Knox–Henderson Station was a proposed subway station along the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Light Rail in the Knox-Henderson neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. It would serve the Red, Blue, and Orange Lines located beneath the North Central Expressway (U.S. 75) at Willis Avenue. DART's original system plan featured a tunnel underneath North Central Expressway, connecting Pearl Station and SMU/Mockingbird Station, with underground stations serving the Knox-Henderson and Cityplace neighborhoods. During construction of the tunnel in the 1990s, the station area for Knox–Henderson Station was excavated at an additional cost of $1 million and left as a shell for future development. The excavated area was located 80 feet (24 m) below grade with a platform length of 400 feet (120 m). Because of initial Vickery Place neighborhood objections, DART did not complete Knox–Henderson Station as part of its initial phase as planned. The station's shell, considered a ghost station, serves as an emergency exit from the tunnel. The nearby underground Cityplace Station, of similar design, was finished as planned and opened in December 2000. By the mid-1990s, attitudes towards the station began to shift with the neighborhood actively petitioning DART to construct the station. However, funding problems related to the deferred construction doomed the station. By 2006, DART announced it would cost an estimated $100 million to complete and open Knox–Henderson Station. The large price tag was attributed to the high labor and infrastructure costs associated with working underground near actively used tracks. In order to avoid interfering with existing rail service, tunneling and station construction work could only be carried out for four hours per day, between midnight and 4 a.m., when trains are not running. Due to the high costs involved, DART stated that it was deferring construction of the station indefinitely.In January 2007, DART published the final version of its comprehensive 2030 Transit System Plan. The plan contained no provisions for finishing or opening the station by 2030, and responded to public comments requesting completion of the station by declaring, "There are no plans for a station in the Knox-Henderson area."On July 27, 2018, The Dallas Morning News published an article featuring photos and video views inside and details of the unfinished station. In January 2022, DART approved the 2045 Transit System Plan removing all mentions of the station entirely. As of 2022, DART does not list Knox–Henderson Station in its future expansion plans.