Dallas Reunion Tower

by Kathy White

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Dallas Reunion Tower

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Kathy White

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We recently visited the Downtown Dallas area and stayed at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. We got a chance to go up in the majestic Reunion Tower and take some photographs of the tower and the Hyatt in the background, as well as photos of the Downtown Dallas area and skyline from the top of the tower's Observation Deck. It was quite an awesome sight!
Reunion Tower is a 561 ft (171 m) observation tower and one of the most recognizable landmarks in Dallas, Texas. Located at 300 Reunion Blvd. in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas, the tower is part of the Hyatt Regency Hotel complex, and is the 15th tallest building in Dallas. A free-standing structure until the construction of an addition to the Hyatt Regency Dallas in 1998, the tower was designed by the architectural firm Welton Becket & Associates.
Reunion Tower was completed in 1978, along with the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion, as part of an urban redevelopment project that also renovated the historic Union Station, that today services Amtrak, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, and the Trinity Railway Express to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Fort Worth.
Reunion Tower quickly emerged as a Dallas icon when it opened in 1978.
The observation deck was closed for repairs and renovations in the fall of 2007, and it underwent some minor renovations in 2008. Fast forward six years - on October 5, 2013 the re-engineered GeO-Deck (named for architect Buckminster Fuller’s “geodesic sphere,” the tower’s fabled shape) reopened to the public. The new GeO-Deck was completely reimagined, full of engaging innovations including an interactive digital display named the “Halo,” high powered zoom telescopes, walls and ceilings highlighted with color-changing lights and a floor designed as a stylized map of the city.
The website for the Reunion Tower states that as the tower prepared to open on April 15, 1978, local police officials were asked if the lighted ball would distract motorists. “Probably not,” was the reply. But within an hour and a half of the opening, traffic on highways leading to downtown came to a halt. Police and fire switchboards were overloaded for 15 minutes. Eventually, a police cruiser with a public-address system was dispatched to Stemmons Freeway to admonish drivers to keep moving.

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September 2nd, 2014

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