Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation Selects Consultants for Civil Engineering, Parking, Traffic, Surveying, Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering.Business Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2003 The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts This article or section contains information about expected future buildings or structures. Some or all of this information may be speculative, and the content may change as building construction begins. Foundation announced today the selection of five consultants to provide expert guidance in various aspects of the planning and design of the master plan for the theaters that make up the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. "The Foundation will draw heavily from the expertise of these consultants as we prepare the master plan for the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts," said Harvey Mitchell, Chairman of the Board of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation. "This project is the largest cultural project of its kind in the history of Dallas, and we are confident that we have selected the most knowledgeable consultants to guide the planning and design of this Center." The Center will provide world-class facilities for performances of opera, musical theater, classic and experimental theater, ballet and other forms of dance. Its theaters will become the main stage production facilities for The Dallas Opera The Dallas Opera is an opera company located in Dallas, Texas (USA). It was founded in 1957 as the Dallas Civic Opera by Laurence Kelly and Nicola Rescigno, both of whom had been active with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the first as administrator, the second as artistic director. , the Dallas Theater Center The Dallas Theater Center is a major regional theater in Dallas, Texas (USA). It produces classic, contemporary and new plays. The theater is based in the Kalita Humphreys Theater, a building designed by famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. , Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Fort Worth Dallas Ballet, Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folkorico, and many of the other performing arts organizations that serve Dallas and the surrounding area. The selected consultants are: Civil engineering and surveying services: Lopez Garcia Group, Dallas Lead consultant: Dev Rastogi Lopez Garcia Group (LGGroup), a Dallas-based, woman-owned engineering and environmental sciences firm, has a long-standing commitment to the community and a history of assisting in making Dallas' signature projects a reality. LGGroup has assisted in creating master plan concepts for the City of Dallas and has been involved in the design and construction of many of Dallas' cultural facilities including the Science Place Omnimax Theater, the Women's Museum, American Airlines Center For the arena in Miami, Florida, see . Current arenas in the National Basketball Association Western Conference Eastern Conference , and the Dallas Convention Center The Dallas Convention Center, originally the Dallas Memorial Auditorium, is a meeting hall, event/convention center and civic center in the Convention Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). . The firm has received special achievement and design awards for past projects including the Women's Museum and the Tower Building Preservation projects at Fair Park. Headquartered in Dallas, LGGroup has four offices in Texas, two in New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). and one in Colorado. Environmental engineering: Halff Associates, Dallas Lead consultant: David Littleton Halff Associates is an award-winning multi-disciplined engineering firm based in Dallas, whose specialties include planning and development of creative engineering solutions to improve natural and human-built environments. The firm offers broad-ranging experience, including environmental specialization in the areas of regulatory compliance, environmental studies, and water and pollution prevention planning. Halff Associates has received numerous awards and honors for its environmental work, including the Engineers Excellence Environmental Division Award for Brownfield Remediation/American Airlines Center, Dallas; Chief's Environmental Design Honor Award/Boggy Creek, Austin; and the Environmental Award of Merit for the upgrade of the industrial waste treatment facility at Kelly Air Force Base Kelly Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base located in San Antonio, Texas. In 2001, the runway and land west of the runway became "Kelly Field Annex" and control of it was transferred to the adjacent Lackland Air Force Base. in San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. . Geotechnical engineering Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. Geotechnical engineering includes investigating existing subsurface conditions and materials; assessing risks posed by site conditions; designing earthworks and : GME GME granulomatous meningoencephalitis. GME Graduate medical education, see there Consulting Services Inc., Dallas Lead consultants: Doug Ziolkowski and Mark W. 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Parking: Carl Walker Inc., Kalamazoo, Michigan/Dallas Regional Lead consultant: Tim Christle, P.E. and David A. Kapalko Carl Walker Inc. brings expertise in Studies and Operations Consulting, Planning, Functional Design and Structural Engineering for parking facilities to the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. Its experience includes parking consulting for municipalities, hospitals, universities, property managers, airports and private developers. The firm will study parking supply and demand, evaluate sites for parking development and analyze and plan the pedestrian and vehicular traffic flow within the parking facilities, the design of entrances/exits, parking space layout and access/revenue control systems. Recent Dallas area work includes facility design for approximately 3,000 new parking spaces at Children's Medical Center. Traffic: DeShazo, Tang and Associates, Dallas Lead consultant: Steve Stoner ston·er n. 1. One that stones. 2. Slang a. One who is habitually intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. b. One who is a delinquent or failure. DeShazo, Tang and Associates, based in Dallas, specialize in traffic/transportation engineering and planning for private and public sector clients. Recent Dallas-area projects include traffic engineering services for Texas Instruments; E-PASS traffic engineering services for DFW DFW Dallas/Ft Worth, TX, USA - Dallas Ft Worth International (Airport Code) DFW Department of Fish and Wildlife DFW David Foster Wallace DFW Drug-Free Workplace DFW Down For Whatever (song by Pretty Young Things) Airport; traffic analysis and parking design for Dallas Police Headquarters; and preliminary design of the proposed Dallas County Parking Garage in the West End Historical District. DeShazo has earned government status as a Minority Business Enterprise. DeShazo was integral in the development of the 1982 Dallas Arts District Master Plan that remains the footprint for today's Arts District improvements. About the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation: Organized in September 2000, the Foundation's purpose is to complete planning, raise funds and construct the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. The campaign to build the Center is the largest of its kind in Dallas history, with total gifts and pledges to date amounting to more than $130 million. The campaign's goal is to raise $210 million in the private sector with additional funds to be provided by the City of Dallas through a bond election scheduled for 2003. The Foundation's Web address is www.dallasperformingarts.org. |
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