DALLAS the Largest Metro in the South "Where's the respect City-Data" (chapel, live)

[C2H (ComingtoHouston)]

Originally Posted by Dangerfield

Someone tell the NBA the site is actually in Arlington.

Dallas is the franchise w/ all the sports teams. Try another argument

[WestbankNOLA]

Originally Posted by C2H (ComingtoHouston)

Dallas is the franchise w/ all the sports teams. Try another argument

What made them choose Texas/Cowboy Stad. over AA? Size? Attendance expectations?

[Spade]

Originally Posted by C2H (ComingtoHouston)

No it was more like a DFW vs Dallas thing. It was due to people refering to the whole metroplex as Dallas and all i did was restate what the census clearly defines the area as and its not Dallas... It's branded DFW. Nice try though.




The eastern edge of Fort Worth claim is meaningless. It's just a small strip of rural land. Most people in reality follow the distance from downtown to downtown in an urban area.

However meaningless at it is, it still exists. There's no other way around it.

[C2H (ComingtoHouston)]

Originally Posted by WestbankNOLA

What made them choose Texas/Cowboy Stad. over AA? Size? Attendance expectations?

I wish i had the answer but i'm guessing the size factor has alot to do w/ it. I don't see how AA couldn't support the event and the Toyota Center in Houston could. Aren't they the same size?

[LAnative10]

Originally Posted by C2H (ComingtoHouston)

I wish i had the answer but i'm guessing the size factor has alot to do w/ it. I don't see how AA couldn't support the event and the Toyota Center in Houston could. Aren't they the same size?

My guess is simply that the stadium is brand new just so they can say they had it there.

[kdogg817]

[quote=C2H (ComingtoHouston);9397597]No it was more like a DFW vs Dallas thing. It was due to people refering to the whole metroplex as Dallas and all i did was restate what the census clearly defines the area as and its not Dallas... It's branded DFW. Nice try though.

Sure C2H " You know very well how heated Dallas and Fort Worth rivarly can be from the DFW threads." It was going to be Dallas vs Houston, Fort Worth and everyone else. I was about to agree but I realize who posted it the notorious ComingtoHouston noted Dallas hater. You are lucky you are a Texan.

[LovinDecatur]

Originally Posted by Spade

Nah. Dallas is the primary city of the largest metro area in the South. Houston would be 2nd, Miami 3rd, and Atlanta is 4th.

Actually, Atlanta's metro is about 200,000 larger in population than Miami, and is about 100,000 behind Houston.

[rantanamo]

The All-Star game in Arlington is a collaboration between Jerry Jones and Mark Cuban. Dallas has been asked to bid several times since the AAC was opened, but Mark Cuban has refused to bid because the NBA, unlike other major sports would take over all seats and ticketing while Cuban wanted his season ticket holders to get first choice of seats. With the added capacity of the Cowboys Stadium, Cuban can do this while also fulfilling Stern's media and VIP seating. There's also the desire to get 100,000 into the game. All other All-Star weekend festivities will take place at the AAC and Dallas Convention Center.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

Actually, Atlanta's metro is about 200,000 larger in population than Miami, and is about 100,000 behind Houston.

I figured Atlanta passed it but didn't know officially. Thanks for the information.

[tablemtn]

Maybe part of the reason Dallas isn't mentioned as much as other cities is because the metroplex is "bipolar," with two major downtowns. They aren't consolidated into a single downtown in the style of Houston. As a result, Dallas's downtown ends up being smaller than we might expect for a metro region of over 6 million.

Also, I don't think Dallas has a lot of boosters outside of its own region, compared to other cities. For example, a city like Seattle seems to have quite a few boosters across its entire Pacific Northwest region, while Dallas doesn't have that type of appeal.

People in the cities of the Texas Triangle seem to be quite loyal to their city - Austinites love Austin, San Antonians will tell you all about why they live there instead Dallas, and folks from Houston both love their city and have a certain sibling rivalry going on with Dallas. And people from Tulsa or Oklahoma City just shake their heads and sigh if you "accuse" them of being from Dallas!

So, Dallas/Ft. Worth promotion really has to rely on the people of the metroplex itself.

It's also not much of a tourist destination, as opposed to a business one. People don't really pop into the metroplex for vacations in the same way they do with other cities. It's more of a way-station. You'll find lots of people who switch planes at the airport, but not many of them hop over to downtown on their layovers - for one thing, there's no rail line out to there (though the Orange Line will change that in a few years), and it's not particularly close to things people would want to see in a limited time anyway.

Dallas also doesn't have much of a presence in the popular imagination, aside from 70's-era stereotypes about oil barons and businessmen with cowboy boots. Most people don't get much of an impression when "Dallas" is mentioned. Dallas has quite a few corporate headquarters, but they don't cluster around any particular flashy industry, like the tech industry in the Bay Area, finance in New York City, or entertainment in Los Angeles.

As others have mentioned, Dallas is more of a place to live quietly on a your own affordable patch of land than it is a destination you'd visit to find some sort of adventure.