A great day for Dallas: Downtown renewal and Fair Park’s restoration begin | Opinion
The potential is vast, and it represents a more sensitive consideration of how we build our city. The interconnection of streets and neighborhoods is vital to a city’s vibrancy and health. When these connections are severed by thoughtless design, it can do generational damage to the economic opportunity of whole areas.Traversing it is a journey through the darkness of a tunnel that emerges onto a blaring freeway. It’s not for the faint of heart.
The new configuration and the planned deck park along Lamar Street/Botham Jean Boulevard promise to make walking on the streets around the convention center much more enjoyable. It’s also worth a reminder that financing for this project, using bonds backed by hotel occupancy tax, will greatly benefit the restoration and rejuvenation of Fair Park. That plan will also be part of today’s briefing, and it is another reason to celebrate.
Fair Park is among our greatest treasures. This plan funds restoration of the Music Hall, the Band Shell, the Coliseum and the Automobile and Centennial buildings, as well as improvements to the Cotton Bowl stadium.They did so because, once again, the people of this city had the foresight to see that investing in the place we live will pay dividends for generations to come.
Our city will be more beautiful, and it will work better for all of us. Today is the beginning. And it’s a great day.
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