Tag: <span>KlydeWarrenPark</span>

Dallas News / December 9, 2018

Dallas' Klyde Warren Park spawns a new generation of urban parks

Klyde Warren is considered a world-class urban haven that’s providing a template for a new generation of innovative parks. From Los Angeles to Miami, urban parks over freeways and those transforming railway tracks are cropping up around the country, as cities look to add green space, revitalize their downtowns, and energize downtrodden neighborhoods.

Dallas News / October 18, 2018

Beloved Klyde Warren Park in Dallas to get $76 million expansion

The park’s new president Kit Sawers says the deck park’s long-awaited expansion will complete the park. Jody Grant, the man who helped create this place—on a highway overpass, out of thin air—sees the planned two-story pavilion as an opportunity to continue to make the park a living place that grows with the city’s needs.

Dallas News / May 18, 2017

Dallas can't afford to ignore its parks

There was a time when the Fort Worth Zoo bought up every billboard on Interstate 35 outside the Dallas Zoo to let people know if they wanted to visit a great zoo, they needed to drive to Fort Worth.