It’s been 24 years since voters approved plans for a giant 200-acre park beneath and between big downtown Dallas bridges. But planners say a major announcement is coming soon.
His estimate turned out to be too optimistic.
Tony Moore, director of the Trinity Park Conservancy, is the man now responsible for making the park a reality. Moore Thursday said the park will happen. Moore said the Corp is planning to begin excavation in the park area for levee construction further downstream which could result in lakes for a future park.
An overlook on the west side near Commerce Street and the former Dawson State Jail location on the east side are planned as anchor locations overlooking a park. “The opportunity to bookend an iconic bridge which is Ron Kirk Bridge, with activities on both ends was just the opportunity of a lifetime,” Moore said.
Since the 1998 Trinity Park plan, Dallas completed Klyde Warren Park over a freeway, which some people thought might never happen. A second deck park is in the works near the Dallas Zoo. Half a dozen smaller downtown parks have been completed, including Carpenter Park, which reopened this month after years of reconstruction.