Pearl/Arts District Station (formerly Pearl Station) is a DART Light Rail station located in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA) on Bryan Street, east of Pearl Street. It opened June 14, 1996, and is a station on the Red and Blue Lines, serving the Plaza of the Americas, the Sheraton Dallas Hotel, 2001 Bryan Tower, the San Jacinto Tower, the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and JPMorgan Chase Tower.
Pearl Station was the original northern terminus of the Red and Blue lines before they were extended (Red in 1997 and Blue in 2001).
On July 30, 2012; Pearl Station was renamed as Pearl/Arts District Station as part of the service changes effective for that date to better reflect new identities created by their evolving neighborhoods or surrounding developments.
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—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
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