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calls "a beehive of activity" every day. The plan is to move next fall into the new Bank of America Tower at Parkside, at Woodall Rodgers Freeway, where Gensler is designing TXSE's permanent Texas Market Center headquarters. Expect executive offices, a broadcast center, market ceremonies, a Texas business museum, and a two-story lobby. A wraparound exterior ticker will trumpet trading numbers. (Because, again, Texas.) The ceremonial bell is being Tex- ified, too: A symbolic golden bell was rung to open the exchange in July, but a larger permanent bell is being crafted now — all 600 pounds of it — with a custom case made of wood and limestone from guess where. Around all this, Y'all Street is becoming geographic reality — something tony real estate agents are already marketing as the Y'all Street corridor. Goldman Sachs' 800,000-square-foot NorthEnd campus will accommodate more than 5,000 employees. JPMorganChase already counts more than 16,000 employees in DFW. Morgan Stanley, meanwhile, is considering a massive, roughly 708,000-square-foot Uptown regional hub at 2401 McKinney. And, in the plot twist no screenwriter could top, NYSE just opened its own Dallas headquarters at Old Parkland in August. Dallas challenged Wall Street. And Wall Street just moved to Dallas. STOCK EXCHANGE STYLE The PaperCity primer on looking — and living — your best while funding all those mergers and acquisitions. The clothes. Finance cosplay is hereby prohibited — meaning the TXSE look should not be Gordon Gekko drag. No striped suspenders. No Edwardian shirts. And, for the love of Warren Buffett, no startup hoodies. (Unless you have personally founded something worth $40 billion.) Instead, think quiet Texas luxury. For him: A softly constructed navy Brunello Cucinelli jacket, a white knit polo, gray Zegna trousers, and dark-chocolate Loro Piana Summer Walk loafers — or a pair of custom boots from M.L. Leddy's for subtle swagger. Add a Métier Private Eye briefcase and Oliver Peoples sunglasses. Then go see Denis Boulle at deBoulle for a Patek Philippe 5236P-011 — deliberately not a Nautilus, because the object is to impress the person who knows watches, not the person across the room. For her: Black blazer and trouser by The Row, an ivory silk Khaite blouse, a pair of Celine Pump Kittens, and a Loewe Puzzle Fold tote. The watch: a steel-and-gold The guiding clothing principle for all: If a logo can be read from the other side of Klyde Warren Park, reconsider. Panthère de Cartier. The jewelry: Van Cleef & Arpels Perlée bracelet (there is something pleasingly literal about wearing gold to the exchange) or, better yet, whatever Sue Gragg tells you to buy. The guiding principle for all: If a logo can be read from the other side of Klyde Warren Park, reconsider. The haunts: Buy! Sell! Eat! For the TXSE set, lunch should mean Le Bilboquet, where the Cajun chicken and frites have probably overheard enough term-sheet talk to qualify as material nonpublic information. Then again, Al Biernat's remains indispensable for the old-fashioned business lunch. Mister Charles handles dinner when visiting Manhattanites need gentle correction about Dallas sophistication. After hours? The very dim Mansion Bar for discretion or Green Point Seafood & Oyster Bar (conveniently, in Weir's Plaza) when the closing bell deserves some celebrating. For the junior associates at these firms looking to let loose after they leave the office — which for them can mean 11 pm at the earliest — think Clifton Club, Park House, and Inwood Tavern. The homes: Where should all these Jane Frasers and Gordon Gekkos live? The Arts District for the globally minded chairman; Knox/Katy Trail for the managing director who likes their commute short and their reservations difficult; Turtle Creek for established discretion; Highland Park for permanence; and Preston Hollow when the art collection begins requiring more walls. Some hot high-rises and streets: Hall Arts Residences; Museum Tower; The Knox Residences, Auberge Collection; Mansion Residences; Knox Street; Travis Street; the new Everdell Place; Beverly Drive; Armstrong Parkway; Strait Lane; and Meadowbrook Drive. The cars: A big-body Range Rover Autobiography. It can attend a board meeting, a Dallas Country Club lunch, and a ranch weekend without changing costume. Younger money gets a Porsche Taycan; traditionalists will go for an S-Class. But the person whose opinion you really want may arrive in a perfectly preserved, vintage Mercedes-Benz 560 SEC coupe, a Dow-spiking 80 grand when it was new in the late 1980s. It says: I had money before this happened. THE FINANCE FLICKS Five essential films about money, markets and the people intoxicated by both. Wall Street (1987) The urtext of modern money culture: Gordon Gekko made greed glamorous and insider trading look — for a dangerous minute — like the world's chicest profession. American Psycho (2000) Wall Street as status psychosis, where the business cards, reservations, Valentino suits, and apartment furnishings matter more than anyone's actual job — and that's precisely the point. (To be a fly on the wall for that iconic scene of the Wall Streeters comparing business-card stocks and fonts! And we still dream of getting a 9 pm seating at Dorsia.) Margin Call (2011) Perhaps the smartest finance movie ever made: one long, exquisitely tailored night in which very intelligent people discover the house is on fire and calmly calculate who should burn. (Jeremy Irons should be a marquee star in every movie about the one-percenters. Remember his Oscar for his Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune?) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Money without manners: Scorsese turns financial excess into a three-hour bacchanal so seductive, appalling, and hilarious that the audience becomes faintly complicit. The Big Short (2015) The rare movie that makes collateralized debt obligations entertaining, then delivers the punchline: The people who understood the insanity best were the ones betting 74