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Starting Sunday, Galleria Dallas will begin the creation of what has become the most iconic holiday visual in the state of Texas: the construction of its 95-foot-tall Christmas tree, the tallest indoor holiday tree in the United States. This year, the tree is getting a facelift, with new branches, ornaments and transformative lighting that will show dazzling animations on the tree itself. Setup begins on Sunday, Nov. 5, for the massive evergreen, which has been a fixture at the shopping center for decades.

It takes a team of nearly 50 of Santa’s best elves five days to construct the tree. After the massive steel frame, which weighs five tons, goes up, teams will work to install 717 new branches, each of which is essentially a 3’ to 5’ tree. The new branches are fuller than the ones used in past years, and it took 14,000 shop hours to hand-sew twigs on them.

Dallas is a city where the culinary scene is just as diverse as its population. Everything from smoky barbecue to soul food to Tex-Mex can be easily found, as well as award-winning restaurants from many different cuisines. It makes complete sense that a titan of the food world like Gordon Ramsay would want to expand his offerings into a city like Dallas, and that’s exactly what he’s doing.