Akard Station
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Akard Station is a DART Light Rail
station located in the City Center District of downtown
Dallas
, Texas
on Pacific Avenue, between Akard and Field Streets. It opened on June 14, 1996, and is a station on the and lines, serving Elm Place
, One Main Place
, Renaissance Tower
, Thanks-Giving Square
and Thanksgiving Tower
.
Akard Station was closed on May 29, 2008, for more than a month to raise the platform level to match the height of the 100 new DART Light Rail cars also being modified at that time. The station reopened on July 7.
DART Light Rail
DART Light Rail is a light rail system in Dallas, Texas and its suburbs owned by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit. The system comprises between its three lines — the , the and the . Its 72 miles of track make it the largest light rail system in the United States. It has a daily ridership of...
station located in the City Center District of downtown
Downtown Dallas
Downtown Dallas is the Central Business District in Dallas, Texas USA, located in the geographic center of the city. The area termed "Downtown" has traditionally been defined as bounded by the downtown freeway loop: bounded on the east by I-345 Downtown Dallas is the Central Business District...
Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
on Pacific Avenue, between Akard and Field Streets. It opened on June 14, 1996, and is a station on the and lines, serving Elm Place
Elm Place
Elm Place, formerly First National Bank Tower, is a skyscraper located in the Main Street District of downtown Dallas, Texas and adjacent to DART's Akard Station. The high-rise is and 52 stories tall, making it the tenth tallest building in Dallas...
, One Main Place
One Main Place
One Main Place is a skyscraper in Dallas, Texas. The building rises 445 feet . It contains 33 floors, and was completed in 1968. One Main Place currently stands as the 27th-tallest building in the city...
, Renaissance Tower
Renaissance Tower
Renaissance Tower is a , 56-story modernist skyscraper located at 1201 Elm Street in downtown Dallas, Texas. The tower is the second tallest in the city, the fifth tallest in Texas, and the 24th tallest in the United States...
, Thanks-Giving Square
Thanks-Giving Square
Thanks-Giving Square is a public-private complex in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas . Originally planned as the first of several traffic-relieving complexes in downtown Dallas, it was dedicated in 1976; at the time it was the first public-private partnership of its kind in Dallas...
and Thanksgiving Tower
Thanksgiving Tower
Thanksgiving Tower is a 50 story high-rise at in downtown Dallas, adjacent to Thanks-Giving Square, the park which the building takes its name. The building opened in 1982 rises to a height of 645 feet and at its completion in 1982, was the second tallest building in Dallas. It surpassed Elm...
.
Akard Station was closed on May 29, 2008, for more than a month to raise the platform level to match the height of the 100 new DART Light Rail cars also being modified at that time. The station reopened on July 7.