{"id":15176271,"date":"2026-06-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/the-west-ends-next-act-ready-set-wait\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:10:13","slug":"the-west-ends-next-act-ready-set-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/the-west-ends-next-act-ready-set-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"The West End\u2019s next act: Ready, set, wait \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Historic-West-End-Arch-by-Lauren-Drewes-Daniels.jpg\" alt=\"The Historic West End arch at the entrance of the neighborhood.\" \/>In 1928, moving a river to save the West End took two years. A convention center remodel will take five. For restauratuers,<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/food-drink\/dallas-west-end-growth-convention-center-40684496\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas Observer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1928, moving a river to save the West End took two years. A convention center remodel will take five. For restauratuers,<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s a lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15176273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15176271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dallas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-scaled.webp",2560,1746,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-300x205.jpg",300,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-620x423.jpg",620,423,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-768x524.jpg",768,524,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-940x641.jpg",940,641,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-1536x1047.jpg",1536,1047,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-2048x1396.jpg",2048,1396,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-1340x894.jpg",1340,894,true],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15176271-historic-west-end-arch-by-lauren-drewes-daniels-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/usa\/dallas\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Dallas<\/a>","tag_info":"Dallas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15176271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15176271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15176271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15176272,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15176271\/revisions\/15176272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15176273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15176271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15176271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15176271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}