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Here’s How Replacing Parking Lots With Parks Will Transform Downtown Dallas
We talked to the CEO of Parks for Downtown Dallas about the new greenspaces being developed in the heart of the city.
By Alex Macon
Published in
FrontBurner
May 10, 2021
3:46 pm
Amy Meadows is the CEO of Parks for Downtown Dallas, the nonprofit foundation that has partnered with Dallas and its parks department to create more greenspace in the city’s urban core. The foundation has been tasked with developing four downtown parks, which will be owned by the city.
Two of those parks have opened in the last several years.
What Will Bring Downtown Dallas Back?
Downtown Dallas, Inc. President and CEO Kourtny Garrett says the City Center as we remember it never left. Here’s why.
By
Kourtny Garrett
May 4, 2021
1:30 pm
Kourtny Garrett
It is a question grounded in the assumption that the pandemic would halt decades of dedicated work to reinvest in downtown Dallas. That steady foundation includes $11 billion of investment over the past 20 years, public-private partnerships that have brought more than 40 vacant buildings back to life, and a rise in residents from just a few hundred to more than 12,000 today.
For those who never really left downtown, key indicators tell us that downtown Dallas is better positioned than any other market in the country to emerge stronger. Consider that not a single major Downtown project was derailed by the events of 2020. That is not the case in other markets. Among the major projects to advance or come online while most of Dallas was working from home:
Massive Public Art Piece Returning to New Downtown Dallas Park
Robert Irwin s 700-foot-long, 8-foot-tall sculpture, once nearly resigned to the scrap heap, is being reinstalled at the site of a new downtown Dallas park.
By Alex Macon
Published in
FrontBurner
April 28, 2021
9:17 am
For years, sculptor Robert Irwin’s
Portal Park Piece (Slice) ran through John Carpenter Plaza on the east side of downtown. Installed in 1981, the 700-foot-long, 8-foot-tall work fell into a state of disrepair along with the plaza itself. Realigned roads cut off what had initially been conceived as a sort of welcoming greenspace that would pull in foot traffic from East Dallas and Deep Ellum. The sculpture was mostly ignored by the city and by visitors unless they happened to catch a glance of the big metal wall on its green island as they were driving into downtown. (It did receive more regular attention from vandals.) As plans to redevelop the park began to pick up steam, Irwin himself said D