Much has been said about the revitalization of the Trinity Corridor and the Design District, how we now sensationalize Industrial Blvd. and renamed it "Riverfront", my first qualm being that I give client's the wrong directions about 9 times out of 10, how I see people the gas station on Continental driving aimlessly with their windows rolled down asking how to get to Industrial before I yell out "Your on it!" to their bewildered expressions, or how does Industrial now look resemble anything that you have ever seen named Riverfront...unless we are in New Jersey, with a Kings Cabaret - a pretty shady gentleman's club, a high crime rate (our building has had at least 6 counts of violence or robbery in the last year, with one person being robbed at gunpoint), and a high population of homeless folks that constantly hit you up while your trying to order a Snack Wrap or pump gas, renaming a street should have been the last thing on the ever expanding to do list. However if you want my input, and obviously you do because your reading this, I think we should have stuck with our roots and left the street name alone, have a sense of history instead of trying to commercialize every nook and cranny of Dallas. Yes, we want improvement but I think it needs to represent where we came from first and foremost instead of denying what the area was and really still is. Isn't that how America became a leader in the 19th and 20th century - industrialization? How we are probably in a worse position now because we rely on the rest of world more than ourselves...?
Ok, sorry, I got off on a tangent there. I really wanted to talk about the new showrooms down in the Design District. The firm where I personally work at is in a renovated sewing machine factory and several other design catered companies are moving in right on our street - along with the new locale of the Dallas Contemporary Museum. I will showcase each showroom sometime this month, many are showrooms that were either in the high-rent (I am sure) International on Turtle Creek or on Slocum or Dragon and have traded digs for a somewhat better priced venue, however it is a little hidden from most traffic through the Design District so I just wanted to let you all know what we have on the south side of "Riverfront"...
