BUILDING FOR A HEALTHY ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE OMNI DALLAS CONVENTION CENTER HOTEL million man-hours without significant lost time injury ith a vision to enhance the local economy, the City of Dallas formed a public-private partnership to build the $325 million, four-diamond Omni Dallas Hotel in the heart of downtown. And that vision is coming to only two months before its November 2011 opening date, the 1,001-room hotel had already booked 250,000 room nights for more than 160 meetings and conventions contracted through 2017. Dual-level skybridge offers convenient access to 2.1-millionsquare-foot Dallas Convention Center The LEED Silver project diverted 1.4 million pounds of construction waste from to the trash 1,000 average Americans produce each year More than 80,000 square feet of flexible meeting and event space, including the second largest ballroom in Downtown Dallas Founded on a public-private partnership The Omni Dallas Convention Center Hotel project is a public-private Lower levels offer guests and locals three restaurants, retail space, lounges, pool side bar, fitness center, and a high-end spa partnership between the City of Dallas, private developer Matthews Southwest, Omni Hotels as the operator, and Balfour Beatty Construction, the lead joint venture member of the design build team, which includes H.J. Russell and Pegasus Texas. MORe issue two 2011 million pounds of reinforcing rebar, if laid end-to-end, to reach from the Omni Dallas Hotel to Pittsburgh, PA