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Evaluating Dallas’ ParkScore Index

Evaluating Dallas’ ParkScore Index

by Parks for Downtown Dallas | Feb 14, 2018 | Carpenter Park, Downtown Dallas Parks, Harwood Park, Pacific Plaza, West End Plaza |

Every citizen deserves a great park within a 10-minute walk of their home — this is the premise behind the Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore Index. Using this comprehensive tool, every year TPL evaluates park access and park quality in the 100 largest cities in...
A Look at Our Designers: Notable Works from SWA and Hargreaves Associates

A Look at Our Designers: Notable Works from SWA and Hargreaves Associates

by Parks for Downtown Dallas | Jan 18, 2018 | Carpenter Park, Downtown Dallas Parks, Pacific Plaza |

Two of the city’s new Downtown parks — Carpenter Park and Pacific Plaza — will be breaking ground in the coming years, with Pacific Plaza’s ceremony just months away. That means there’s no better occasion to recognize the efforts of a group...
What We’re Looking Forward to in 2018 in and Around Downtown Dallas

What We’re Looking Forward to in 2018 in and Around Downtown Dallas

by Parks for Downtown Dallas | Dec 8, 2017 | Downtown Dallas Parks, Pacific Plaza |

2017 may be on its way out, but 2018 is almost here, bringing with it many exciting new developments. From breathtaking public spaces to groundbreaking openings and renovations, 2018 provides proof that, for Dallas, the best is yet to come. Over a decade in the...
Why the Bond Initiative Matters this Election

Why the Bond Initiative Matters this Election

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 the Numbers: How Parks Improve a City

By the Numbers: How Parks Improve a City

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...
Downtown Dallas by the numbers

Downtown Dallas by the numbers

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...
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