Decades after Dallas stole homes from Black residents, final plans set for new Fair Park greenspace | Grigsby
Here’s your first look at renderings and designs for the 14-acre Community Park, which begins construction in January and opens in 2024.
Darren James, Fair Park First’s chairman and president, told me the new greenspace is a gift to the community as well as to the entire region. Dallas officials promised at the time that some of those 52 acres would become a terrific neighborhood park. Instead, 300 homes were ripped away in order to lay a massive slab of concrete big enough for 4,000 cars.
Fair Park First CEO Brian Luallen, who walked me through 183 pages of designs and renderings, emphasized the team’s insistence on getting the park just right, whether that be convenient, free parking or whimsical elements you won’t find at any other park in North Texas. Mirroring the red oaks and live oaks that run along South Fitzhugh, the “post oak porch” entrance will lead visitors through a Blackland Prairie — from river bottoms and floodplain forest to gardens with percussion play and rock escarpments with built-in slides.
This rendering shows one of the two play areas in the new Community Park, which is scheduled to be completed in 2024. In addition to the half-mile fitness loop and equipment along the route, the Community Park also will include a Market Grove, which will host farmer’s markets and art fairs. This rendering shows the performance stage, Lookout Tower and the location, where the large star is positioned, where public art likely will be displayed.
Fair Park First has worked with its South Dallas neighbors since late 2018 when the City Council turned the entire park’s operation over to it and its for-profit partner, Spectra. First up was creating a master plan in partnership with residents and business owners., was to create the Community Park.
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