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Downtown Dallas has been a gray landscape of skyscrapers and parking lots for generations. Robert Decherd, Chairman of Parks for Downtown Dallas and CEO of DallasNews Corp., has been campaigning for years to change that. Downtown is now home to significant neighborhood parks, from the Civic Garden to the Pacific Plaza. And there is more to come. How has the city changed the face of its inner city in less than a generation?
The buildings in downtown Dallas can be seen on October 9, 2019 from Pacific Plaza, a new Dallas park project along Harwood and St. Paul Streets. Far left is Pacific Place, a 20-story office tower; and far right is 1700 Pacific with 50 stories of office space. (In the center is the 1900 Pacific Residences.) One of the most unique elements in Pacific Plaza is The Pavilion, a 95 by 138 foot egg-shaped floating structure made of stainless steel. Morse code signatures of every stop along the Texas and Pacific Railroad between El Paso and New Orleans underline the steel ring. Pacific Plaza, a new park project in Dallas along Harwood and St. Paul Streets, will add another green space downtown on Wednesday, October 9, 2019. Surrounded by high-rise buildings, Pacific Plaza, Dallas’s newest downtown park, designed by landscape architects SWA Group, has a signature pavilion designed by the HKS Laboratory for Intensive Exploration (LINE). The land was acquired by the City of Dallas in 2008 with support from the Trust for Public Land. The design and construction of Pacific Plaza Park itself was led by Parks for Downtown Dallas in a public-private partnership with the City of Dallas.(Tom Fox / Employee Photographer)
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