Page last updated or reviewed: Dec 19, 2021 (update image status notes); Sept 15, 2022 (update text)
Sections of I-35 in this segment have been modified since these photos were taken. Elevated collector-distributor lanes were added in the downtown area, opened October 18, 2021. Elevated managed lanes were added between Loop 12 and IH-635, opened in 2015. However, the freeway main lanes remain the same, and these photos are still accurate for the main lanes.
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
Just north of downtown, looking south toward the Woodall Rodgers Freeway interchange
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
2021 Photo status:
Freeway modified
Elevated collector-distributor lanes were added on this section, officially opened on October 18, 2021.
The American Airlines Center (AAC) sports arena is located along Stemmons Freeway just north of downtown.
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
2021 Photo status:
Freeway modified
Elevated collector-distributor lanes were added on this section, officially opened on October 18, 2021. Apartments have been built around the AAC
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Looking southbound at Market Center. The freeway has 10 main lanes with continuous frontage roads from downtown to the TX 183 split.
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
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Looking southbound at Motor Street.
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
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Looking southbound at Inwood
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
2015 Photo status:
Sign shown is obsolete
Motor Street has been renamed Market Center Boulevard
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Looking southbound at Commonwealth
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
The southbound frontage road just east of TX 183. As the Delux Inn for $23.95 per night suggests, this is not the best area of Dallas. It is mostly a warehouse/light industrial area. A few miles north at Northwest Highway is a concentration of restaurants, liquor stores, and gentlemen's clubs.
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
2015 Photo status:
Building demolished
The Delux Inn was demolished. It was in the path of the planned Trinity Parkway, which was canceled in 2017.
Looking southbound just east of TX 183. The 10-lane section ends just behind the photo perspective.
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
At the TX 183 intersection. The 3 main lanes in the photo are I-35E northbound. In the distance the fork to TX 183 can be seen.
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
Looking southbound at Empire Central. North of TX 183, the freeway has 6 main lanes (3 each way).
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
Looking southbound, the exit at Regal Row
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
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Looking southbound at Storey Road
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
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Looking southbound at Northwest Highway (Loop 12). The merge with Loop 12 is just to the north.
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
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Looking southbound at Walnut Hill. From Loop 12 to I-635 Stemmons Freeway has 10 main lanes. The freeway was originally constructed with 8 main lanes, but he interior shoulders were converted to traffic lanes.
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
2015 Photo status:
Freeway modified
Elevated tolled lanes have been built on both sides of the freeway. The freeway main lanes shown in this photo remained the same.
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Looking southbound at Merrell.
(Photo date: 2-June-2007)
2015 Photo status:
Freeway modified
Elevated tolled lanes have been built on both sides of the freeway. The freeway main lanes shown in this photo remain the same.