Years of deferred maintenance over the last 47 years have left Dallas City Hall with a steep repair bill that is estimated to cost more than $345 million.

City staff are preparing three options for the city council. One would be to stay put and address issues as they come up. Another is to develop a phased approach to address the deferred maintenance. The last would be to relocate city hall to a skyscraper in downtown.

Those three options were presented to the Finance Committee during its Tuesday meeting.

Dallas City Hall was designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei with a distinct modern style, with the front plaza's 180-degree diameter pool reflected on the windows of the inverted pyramid design. The building officially opened in 1978.

Now water leaks, obsolete electrical sy

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