Dallas Market Center is a 5 million square foot (460,000 m2) wholesale trade center in Dallas, Texas, United States, located at 2200 Stemmons Freeway, housing showrooms which sell consumer products including gifts, lighting, home décor, apparel, fashion accessories, shoes, tabletop/housewares, gourmet, floral, and holiday products.

[4] Inside the World Trade Center are showrooms including gifts, home accessories, lighting, floral, holiday, jewelry, rugs, toys, gourmet foods, furniture, and linens.

The Trade Mart was the destination of United States President John F. Kennedy's motorcade on November 22, 1963, when he was assassinated in Dealey Plaza.

Notable guests awaiting Kennedy's arrival included Market Center partners Trammell Crow and John Stemmons; J. Erik Jonsson, one of the owners of Texas Instruments; and Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell.

[8] As the event fell on a Friday, special dispensation had been arranged to allow the Catholics in attendance to eat meat (the planned main course was steak) at the luncheon.

[9] On October 12, 1964, English sculptor Elisabeth Frink created the bronze sculpture The Eagle which sits outside the main entrance today.

It features a William Blake quote and a plaque which reads, "Placed in memorial by the friends of United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy who awaited his arrival at the Dallas Trade Mart on November 22, 1963 when he was assassinated in Dealey Plaza."

By the late 1980s, Dallas Market Center comprised six buildings with 6.9 million square feet (640,000 m2) of space housing 3,200 tenants employing 60,000.