With plans to lower I-35 through downtown, Austin and UT officials are turning to Dallas for ideas on building a park over the highway.
Klyde Warren Park, a 5.4-acre green space in downtown Dallas, opened in 2012 atop the Woodall Rodgers Freeway and now attracts more than 1.3 million visitors a year.through downtown Austin kicks into gear this summer, city officials and the University of Texas are looking to Dallas for a possible glimpse of the future.in Dallas. The 5.
On a sweltering weekday in July, a father and son were at the park playing on public pingpong tables shaded by a veranda. Kids were running around a splash pad the size of an NBA court. A couple was sitting on a picnic blanket playing Uno, while office workers bought lunch from food trucks lining one side of the park.El Paso residents Temitop Ogumokun and his son Nicolas play pingpong under the shade of a veranda in Klyde Warren Park.
Klyde Warren now serves as an advertisement for installing parks over freeways, and TxDOT has deployed the concept elsewhere in an effort to make highway expansions more politically palatable.The state agency recruited Zogg and Rob Walters — a Dallas antitrust attorney who helped bring the park to life — to meet with officials working on Austin's highway lids, including senior members of UT Austin's real estate and management team.
Even the name of the park itself was for sale. The billionaire CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, Kelcy Warren — now— pledged $10 million to name the park after his son Klyde Warren. The oil and gas magnate has since contributed another $20 million toward a Zogg emphasized how private operation of the park allows it to run in a"Disney-like fashion," with security guards and custodial workers roaming day and night.
Colorado, who learned to salsa dance at Klyde Warren, is quick to stress he enjoys the deck park more than the highway trench it replaced. Private management won't allow for a bikeway through the park, even though a bike path feeds into and out of Klyde Warren.
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