City Performance Hall
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The Dallas City Performance Hall will be a performing arts venue located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA)
Downtown Dallas
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. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) in collaboration with the Architect of Record, Corgan Associates, Inc., and constructed by the City of Dallas, the City Performance Hall will be built in two phases. When both phases are complete, the venue will include a 750-seat acoustically flexible proscenium theater with two multipurpose performance spaces seating 200 people each. The complex will include galleries, a café, gift store and bookshop, educational and meeting facilities, artistic support spaces, and an indoor garden. Phase I, which consists of the 750-seat proscenium theater and its support spaces, is scheduled to be completed in 2012. The project will be LEED
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 Silver. Funding for the City Performance Hall is provided by the Citizens of Dallas through the 2006 Bond Program.
The project team includes:

Design Architect: SOM
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
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Architect of Record: Corgan Associates, Inc.


Theater Consultants: Schuler Shook


Acoustics: Jaffe Holden


Cost Estimators: Donnell Consultants, Inc.


Construction Manager: McCarthy

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