by Parks for Downtown Dallas | Oct 12, 2020 | Carpenter Park, Press Releases |
Dallas, Texas, September 30, 2020 – Today marks the beginning of construction on Carpenter Park, located at the eastern edge of Downtown Dallas near Deep Ellum and East Dallas. Carpenter Park is the renovation and expansion of Carpenter Plaza, a park dedicated in...
by Parks for Downtown Dallas | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog Posts, Carpenter Park, Downtown Dallas Parks |
The neighborhood of Deep Ellum sits just east of US 75 and about a mile from Downtown Dallas. Home to a number of music and entertainment venues — plus bars, restaurants, nightclubs and more — this bustling section of the city has its own unique identity and a rich...
by Parks for Downtown Dallas | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog Posts, Carpenter Park, Downtown Dallas Parks, Harwood Park, Pacific Plaza, West End Square |
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 | Blog Posts, 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 | Blog Posts, Carpenter Park, Downtown Dallas Parks, Harwood Park, Pacific Plaza, West End Square |
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 | Blog Posts, Carpenter Park, Downtown Dallas Parks, Harwood Park, Pacific Plaza, West End Square |
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...
