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...
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...
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 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...
