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The MLK Food Park will feature foods, crafts, and entertainment each weekend. Author: Demond Fernandez Updated: 6:34 PM CDT April 8, 2021 DALLAS — Neighbors and community members can enjoy a variety of foods and entertainment at a new food park opening in South Dallas this weekend. The MLK Food Park will be home to vendors offering culinary dishes, crafts, gardens, and entertainment for families to enjoy each weekend through May 2.  The change at the corner of...

Tickets: Free This easy-paced, no-drop ride will head to Del Sur Tacos in Oak Cliff for great tacos including a $1.99 cochinita pibil taco offer for riders. Plan on another beer stop before returning to Craft and Growler. Riders should bring their own lights, helmets and water. Gallery Rooftop Pool Party at CANVAS Dallas Hotel 1325 S. Lamar St. (Cedars/Southside) What: CANVAS Dallas "Sunburn" Pool Party When: 1-6 p.m., Saturday, April 10 Tickets: $20 on Eventbrite Check out the cocktail and...

The Hope for Lasting Change from a South Dallas Mobile Food Park The city doesnt make it easy to start a food truck business, especially if you live in South Dallas. The organizers of the MLK Food Park are hoping to change that. By Alex Macon Published in FrontBurner April 7, 2021 8:30 am There is potential in a vacant lot. Sometimes it can be hard to see. But try a little and you can envision what will appear Friday at a previously empty space in South Dallas, at the corner of Martin Luther K...

"It was a hallelujah moment when we figured out that these thoughts and ideas that weve been talking about for seven, 10, 12 years are now coming about," said Donald Wesson with Cornerstone Community Development Corporation. "Its sorely needed. Its a forgotten neighborhood in South Dallas thats lacking the infrastructure of building a community. We dont have the coffee shops or the parks, but have a lot of liquor stores." Wesson was among those at the lot on a sunny Monday morning helping to tr...

Better Block is returning to Norfolk to transform the streets of Five Points from drab to fab.

Kim Finch, owner of Double Wide, Single Wide and Thunderbird Station, briefly had one at her Deep Ellum bar. “I tried to do some of [the Thunderbird] menu at Double Wide: I tried to turn that trailer into a little food trailer,” she said. “But it didn’t fly because you could have a food truck, but you can’t have a food trailer.” If things go a certain way on the Dallas City Council, maybe she could liven up that space again. Chad West, council member for North Oak Cliff, announced T...

See how a weekend transformation made downtown Bethel, Vermont, pop! by AARP Vermont and Team Better Block, AARP Livable Communities Photo courtesy Team Better Block Bethel Better Block In 2016, the planning group Team Better Block partnered with AARP Vermont in the town of Bethel (pop: 2,030) to demonstrate how placemaking and community design influence successful aging, health, economic vitality and overall livability. 1 of ...

Learn How to Build a Better Block Working with experts from the urban design firm Team Better Block, AARP and residents of Fort Wayne, Indiana, demonstrate how to, well, create a better block. Team Better Block is a placemaking-focused “public outreach” firm of urban planners and architects who travel worldwide to temporarily reengineer “auto-dominated, blighted, and underused urban areas into vibrant centers.” AARP has partnered with the Dallas-based consultants to launch several pop-u...

Outdoor dining grew during the pandemic, now there’s a plan to keep the expansion Dallas’ Street Seats program will give parklets a more permanent presence. A temporary seating area outside of Revelers Hall on Bishop Avenue in Dallas, May 15, 2020. Co-owner Jason Roberts said the built structure is an example of a semipermanent parklet, or outdoor seating area that spills out onto a street.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) We are as eager as anyone to be done with this year, to flip to the...

These parklets will be taking over some street parking stalls in Kaimuki The parklets are painted bright colors and features landscaping, benches and tables. (Source: C&C of Honolulu) By HNN Staff | December 15, 2020 at 9:28 PM HST - Updated December 15 at 9:33 PM HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - There will be a few less spaces to street park in Kaimuki in an effort to help boost business for area shops and restaurants. The city will be temporarily using the spaces to install parklets,...