Port of Dallas
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The Kesser Plan for the Trinity River
In 1908, the Trinity River flooded Dallas and turned downtown into a peninsula surrounded by raging floodwaters. The city hired George Kesser to create what was known as the Kesser Plan. He reimagined the meandering river so that it would become a straight channel about a half mile west of its existing course through Dallas. Levys would contain the new channel and open up miles of floodplain for development right next to downtown.
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