by Parks for Downtown Dallas | Sep 14, 2017 | Carpenter Park, Downtown Dallas Parks, Harwood Park, Pacific Plaza, West End Plaza |
Dallas goes to the polls Nov. 7, 2017. On the ballot: The city’s 2017 Capital Bond Program, which funds areas of public life from streets and transportation to libraries, and from flood control and storm drainage to the preservation of the architectural treasures...
by Parks for Downtown Dallas | Sep 10, 2017 | Carpenter Park, Downtown Dallas Parks, Harwood Park, Pacific Plaza, West End Plaza |
Frederick Law Olmsted, the architect of Central Park, once summed up the goal of park design as satisfying people’s needs for “long spaces that you could dream away in.” This founding father of American parks may have been driven by philosophical passions, but...
by Parks for Downtown Dallas | Feb 1, 2017 | Carpenter Park, Downtown Dallas Parks, Harwood Park, Pacific Plaza, West End Plaza |
Dallas-Fort Worth is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. We look up to only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, and we are more populous than Houston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. We also show no sign of slipping from this prominent national...
by Parks for Downtown Dallas | Nov 21, 2016 | Downtown Dallas Parks, Pacific Plaza |
Recently, Robert Kent, North Texas area director for The Trust for Public Land, addressed the Dallas Park and Recreation Board, encouraging them to support Parks for Downtown Dallas’ plans for Pacific Plaza. The Trust for Public Land is a national nonprofit...
by Parks for Downtown Dallas | Nov 10, 2016 | Carpenter Park, Downtown Dallas Parks, Harwood Park, Pacific Plaza, West End Plaza |
In the spring of 2017, Dallas residents will be asked to go to the polls to approve a $50 million bond measure for the city’s Park and Recreation Department. $15 million of that $50 million has been earmarked for a project to build four new state-of-the-art parks...
by Parks for Downtown Dallas | Oct 11, 2016 | Downtown Dallas Parks, Pacific Plaza |
Chuck McDaniel is the managing principal architect for SWA. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University, and his resume includes design work on Atlanta’s award-winning Georgia International Plaza, as well as the popular Las Ventanas al Paraiso resort in Cabo San...
