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Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby jrd1964 » 12 Dec 2017 11:44

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While other projects are taking place (mainly the long wait for the completion of the re-arranged surrounding streets), the metal sculpture "Portal Park Piece (Slice)" (yes, it actually has a name) is being re-styled with new ends containing filigree-styled designs and cut-outs. The combined sculpture will return to the park in a new east-west alignment instead of the north-south original placement.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby dd_dweller » 20 Aug 2018 14:19

Has there been any updates on the status of this project? This is now becoming a homeless camp area the past few weeks. I hope this doesn't become a tent city.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby itsjrd1964 » 21 Aug 2018 10:44

I read not too long ago that work was supposed to begin on this park once negotiations with DART about the East Transit Center and the subsequent realignment of Pearl took place. But the way the article was worded, the Cesar Chavez street work would have to be done before any of the Pearl activity starts up, and I've heard nothing yet about whether DART and the city have even come to any agreement about the Transit Center and the Pearl alignment. Hopefully the city won't drag its feet about any of the process, or they might have to add camp clearing and temporary fencing to the cost of the park.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby exelone31 » 21 Aug 2018 11:26

Considering work is underway on Pacific Park, and the development going on in the East Quarter (and the new park slated to go in there), I could easily see this one getting bumped down the priority list.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby DPatel304 » 21 Aug 2018 13:18

Wasn't it well known up front that the city would only work on one park at a time, with Pacific Park being the first? I think the exception to this would be the West End park, which they said they could, potentially, work on that in parallel with another park, but there is, currently, no timeline for that park.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby casperitl » 21 Aug 2018 13:36

It's a plaza, not a park. I would not even call "Klyde Warren" "Park" a park. It's a plaza.

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Postby cowboyeagle05 » 28 Aug 2018 09:59

Hmm, what are you using as your measuring tool besides names because we know how plaza, centre and place have been abused over the decades to refer to shopping centers.

Pegasus Plaza is clearly a plaza since its mostly hardscape. Klyde Warren has large lawns and lots of flora so I would classify it as a park easily and Pacific and Main Street seem like the majority will still be grass/plant life so I would still classify them as parks. West End will most likely be more plaza then park with a majority of hardscape. Carpenter seems like it will be roughly 50% grassy areas and hardscape under the freeways.
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Postby muncien » 28 Aug 2018 10:42

At least we aren't calling them 'Garden' anymore... Seriously, 'Belo Garden' and 'Main Street Garden' are terrible names. lol

Not to sound too much like a copy cat, I always felt that incorporating 'Square' into a downtown core plaza like Belo or Main Street do a much better job at establishing a sense of 'place' than the word 'garden' does. As it stands now... I wouldn't be surprised if some tourists from out of town to half expect to be able to pick fresh tomatoes at one of these 'gardens'.
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Postby dfwcre8tive » 28 Aug 2018 16:57

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby quixomniac » 30 Apr 2020 01:30

Hadn't seen this update elsewhere. Figured itd fit here.

First Look: The Redesign of Downtown Dallas’ Carpenter Park
...A new green space in Dallas’ urban core is expected to spark more development in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood that has emerged in recent months as an office, residential, and retail hotspot. Carpenter Park is bounded by Live Oak Street and Pacific Avenue, extending up to North Cesar Chavez Boulevard.

City officials and the nonprofit organization Parks for Downtown Dallas are in talks to begin construction on Carpenter Park this fall...


https://www.dmagazine.com/commercial-re ... 6AVLlam99s

Sweet sweet rendering porn can be found at HargreavesJones site
http://www.hargreaves.com/work/carpenter-park/
No more clowns on unicycles though.
I think the designs look great IMO. Hoping phase 2 with the skatepark/basketball courts comes too.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby Tivo_Kenevil » 30 Apr 2020 09:59

Now if Dart could just sell their useless transit centers!

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby exelone31 » 30 Apr 2020 10:12

That looks really, really nice. East Quarter is going to be perfectly positioned with so many green spaces within a short distance.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby Warrior2015 » 30 Apr 2020 10:33

quixomniac wrote:Hadn't seen this update elsewhere. Figured itd fit here.

First Look: The Redesign of Downtown Dallas’ Carpenter Park
...A new green space in Dallas’ urban core is expected to spark more development in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood that has emerged in recent months as an office, residential, and retail hotspot. Carpenter Park is bounded by Live Oak Street and Pacific Avenue, extending up to North Cesar Chavez Boulevard.

City officials and the nonprofit organization Parks for Downtown Dallas are in talks to begin construction on Carpenter Park this fall...


https://www.dmagazine.com/commercial-re ... 6AVLlam99s

Sweet sweet rendering porn can be found at HargreavesJones site
http://www.hargreaves.com/work/carpenter-park/
No more clowns on unicycles though.
I think the designs look great IMO. Hoping phase 2 with the skatepark/basketball courts comes too.

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So the basketball and skate park will be in a later phase ?

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby DPatel304 » 30 Apr 2020 10:39

This looks great, and will really help East Quarter with the Uber/Good E development.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby quixomniac » 30 Apr 2020 17:11

Warrior2015 wrote:
So the basketball and skate park will be in a later phase ?


Looks like it. According to the article:
its a small triangular portion underneath the highway, its in the first picture, upper right.
Should phase two of the park’s expansion be approved by the city in the coming years, the park will expand into the median between North and South Central Expressway and house basketball courts and a skate park.


DPatel304 wrote:This looks great, and will really help East Quarter with the Uber/Good E development.

Tivo_Kenevil wrote:Now if Dart could just sell their useless transit centers!


Thats another thing Ive been concerned about. Who this serves. Its at the outer most extremes of East Quarter. It will most directly benefit the Dallas high school residential portion. After that its surrounded by parking lots and the transfer center. Hopefully this will spur quick development of those.
After that is the Uber/Good E development, but there is so much stuff in the way. So its hard to say.
Last in my opinion is the East Quarter. East Quarter is closer to Main street garden than this.
Harwood Park which is under development should directly serve East Quarter.

Hopefully Dart will sell their transit center and incorporate it into the new D2 line.

Lastly. Im a little concerned that all these parks are so close together without enough residential nearby while farmers market doesnt have a park. Im guessing theyre hoping that the parks will attract the development.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby THRILLHO » 27 May 2020 18:36

"The I-345 Soccer Field Vote Gets Delayed — And So Does Carpenter Park" - D Magazine
But the delay also swallowed up the long-awaited 5.6 acre Carpenter Park redevelopment nearby, on which the Parks Department had hoped to begin construction in September. That will now likely be on hold until at least November, but possibly early 2021, as the item must be approved by the Parks Board and the City Council.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby cowboyeagle05 » 28 May 2020 13:59

All kinds of a $h!* show that meeting. Good points were raised but TXDOT forcing them all together is the worst idea. The Good thing is the soccer field project is delayed till the dead weight that is I-45 future is more certain.
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Postby quixomniac » 28 May 2020 21:01

Was it phase 2 of carpenter park that they were voting for? or all of it? Because It doesnt make sense why TxDOT needs to be involved since only phase 2 is under the highway.

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Postby exelone31 » 29 May 2020 09:30

quixomniac wrote:Was it phase 2 of carpenter park that they were voting for? or all of it? Because It doesnt make sense why TxDOT needs to be involved since only phase 2 is under the highway.


It sounds like everything, which is a real shame. I hope that the fates of these two (Carpenter and the soccer fields) are not permanently conjoined, because I think the former will be great while the latter will be a boondoggle.

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Postby cowboyeagle05 » 01 Jun 2020 11:11

quixomniac wrote:Was it phase 2 of carpenter park that they were voting for? or all of it? Because It doesnt make sense why TxDOT needs to be involved since only phase 2 is under the highway.


The whole thing is tied together even though not all the land is under the highway. TXDOT is the one that required the city to submit all projects involving land beneath the freeways to be submitted as one big proposal even though they are all different in different ways being built by different orgs. Even Carpenter Park needs some sort of review in entirety. TXDOT I think is just afraid of making a decision on anything beneath any freeway in any part of Texas. Its not a part of TXDOT's DNA to be concerned with urban fabric and connectivity unless it involves a brand new freeway intersection or off/on-ramp. TXDOT as an organization has a culture of a being about building freeways not working with varying parks/community groups on the use of their land. They don't even truly implement transportation diversity in the state even though logically they should be pushing trains, planes, cars, and bikes as part of a holistic approach. Instead they are the TX Highway Building department. So they tend to put off dealing with anything that isn't a concrete albatross. Then you throw in the reality that this section of highway is being studied to see whether it makes sense to keep it altogether and you get an organization in indescion lockdown.
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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby THRILLHO » 24 Jun 2020 17:46

Dallas City Council Approves Carpenter Park for Construction
Today the Dallas City Council unanimously approved the construction contract for Carpenter Park located on the eastern edge of Downtown.
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Construction is estimated to begin in September 2020 and will take approximately 18 months.

https://parksfordowntowndallas.org/dallas-city-council-approves-carpenter-park-for-construction/

The D Magazine article on this mentions that the Portal is the "second-most valuable piece of public art owned by the City of Dallas."
Any idea what the first one is?

The Portal is the piece I'm most curious about with this park. When I was younger and first encountered it the thing was in such bad shape that I thought it must have been some leftover piece of an incomplete or demolished building/structure rather than a piece of art. It was a little scary from what I remember. I am super curious to see this again in person and how it will be recontextualized being part of a beautiful new park.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby Hannibal Lecter » 24 Jun 2020 21:10

^ Henry Moore's "The Dallas Piece"?

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby exelone31 » 25 Jun 2020 09:22

I'm confused, I thought the park vote was held up as it was tied to the underhighway soccer park. Is this now approved to proceed?

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby Redblock » 25 Jun 2020 09:54

Here is the D Magazine article about the latest construction vote. It appears that Carpenter Park is part of Gateway Park. If you look at the rendering in the body of the article you will see how The Portal artwork will be placed.

https://www.dmagazine.com/commercial-re ... struction/

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby THRILLHO » 25 Jun 2020 13:09

Hannibal Lecter wrote:^ Henry Moore's "The Dallas Piece"?

That sounds right. I had forgotten about that one.
exelone31 wrote:I'm confused, I thought the park vote was held up as it was tied to the underhighway soccer park. Is this now approved to proceed?

I was confused too, and still am. But all the verbiage about the vote suggests the park is moving forward?

And, from a DMN op-ed on Tuesday:
"When the Dallas City Council delayed a vote on that project until August, it also delayed Carpenter Park.
But on Wednesday, the council has an opportunity to continue progress on Carpenter Park. We urge council members to approve the construction contract and keep this project on track. ...
There’s no reason construction can’t start while an overall use plan for the area is completed."

So, construction can start, but the park's role in an "overall use plan for the area" is what the park is tangled up in with I-345? Confusing. Maybe the park could still get derailed in August, regardless of the construction contract?

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Postby cowboyeagle05 » 25 Jun 2020 14:34

Yes I am too confused and will ultimately just wait to see construction start. How it was explained to me by someone I talked to at city hall suggested the council signing off is just so once TXDOT does make its decision the project can start without waiting on council vote after TXDOT. All of which sounds good and bad at the same time.
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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby Warrior2015 » 27 Sep 2020 15:16

So I guess this breaks ground on Wednesday?

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Three Downtown Dallas Parks Deliver Differing Visions of Public Space

https://magazine.texasarchitects.org/20 ... lic-space/

Carpenter Park

On the eastern edge of downtown is Carpenter Park, which is slated to be completed in spring 2022. The park reimagines the old Carpenter Plaza, which consisted of three patches of grass and trees separated by a tangle of trafficways leading to and from I-345. The roads have been realigned and simplified, stitching the 5.6-acre site together. One unique aspect of the site is that it contained an early Robert Irwin sculpture, “Portal Park Piece (Slice),” which was bisected by an off-ramp slated for removal by TxDOT.

To design Carpenter Park, the city engaged Hargreaves Jones, who completed both the initial Downtown Parks Master Plan in 2004 and its update in 2013, as well as Belo Garden. President and CEO Mary Margaret Jones says that when the parks department reached out to them about how the park could be expanded with removal of the ramp, the first thing they did was call the artist to get his thoughts. Irwin felt the site conditions had changed so much the piece no longer made sense and should be demolished. After some back and forth, he agreed to rethink it and came back with a proposal to re-orient and change sculpture based on the new site conditions. The updated artwork became the starting point for Hargreaves Jones’ design, which is much looser than that of the other recent parks. Avoiding the use of straight lines in the landscape, the firm created a granite walk that weaves through the park, framing the lawn and forming the urban gardens and the fountain oval at the intersection of Pearl and Pacific. Carpenter Park will be the largest park in downtown Dallas, and as such, it has been allowed to breathe a bit, favoring a more Olmstedian mentality over aggressive programming.

The inclusion of a fountain, of course, begs comparison to the one announced for Klyde Warren Park. The Carpenter Park fountain is expected to shoot water 25–30 ft into the air, while Klyde Warren’s, billed as the “world’s tallest interactive fountain,” will have the ability to send water 95 ft high. With the fountain, Hargreaves Jones references the Downtown Parks Master Plan, which called for vertical/iconic elements along Pacific at both Pacific Plaza and Carpenter Park. (At Pacific, this became the pavilion by HKS.)

Carpenter Park is aspirational in that its corner of downtown has yet to see significant development and activation. Parks for Downtown Dallas founder Robert Decherd, Hon. TxA, is optimistic about the area and remarks that this is “a chance to prove up the premise that great parks bring capital investments,” a phenomenon definitely observed at Klyde Warren Park. With many development sites in the park’s immediate vicinity, it is well poised to see the growth Decherd envisions.


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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby THRILLHO » 27 Apr 2021 14:13

The Portal sculpture is being reinstalled, and several trees have been put in in the past couple of weeks. This park is coming along nicely.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby DPatel304 » 27 Apr 2021 16:13

I can't wait to see what sort of impact this park and Harwood park have on this side of town. Will construction start on Harwood park once Carpenter Park is completed (Spring 2022)?

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby THRILLHO » 28 Apr 2021 12:58

Here is a picture of the installation progress:
https://twitter.com/DoyleRader/status/1387042522468257798?s=20

D Magazine did a write-up and has an additional picture:
Massive Public Art Piece Returning to New Downtown Dallas Park


DPatel304 wrote:I can't wait to see what sort of impact this park and Harwood park have on this side of town. Will construction start on Harwood park once Carpenter Park is completed (Spring 2022)?

Should be sooner! Parks website says groundbreaking is late 2021.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby THRILLHO » 28 Sep 2021 13:03

If anyone happens to be walking by this part of downtown sometime, some pics would be great. Haven't had the chance myself, but it looks like the park has really taken shape over the summer and a lot of grass has been laid down.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby exelone31 » 28 Sep 2021 14:34

THRILLHO wrote:If anyone happens to be walking by this part of downtown sometime, some pics would be great. Haven't had the chance myself, but it looks like the park has really taken shape over the summer and a lot of grass has been laid down.


There may be some recent pics on the park thread of the Discord IIRC.

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Postby willyk » 07 Dec 2021 04:30

The Park looks to be nearly done. The reconstruction of Pearl Street along side of it seems to be the pacing item for completion, and that work looks to be behind schedule. So I wonder if they will make their December opening date.

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Postby cowboyeagle05 » 29 Mar 2022 14:59

You mean May 3rd lol 23 is the number of acres of urban parks there will now be in Downtown.
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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby potatocoins » 29 Mar 2022 15:03

Whoops, you're absolutely right..haha. I couldn't get past the paywall, so I just quickly skimmed the headline and wrote my (incorrect) comment.

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Postby cowboyeagle05 » 29 Mar 2022 15:05

No problem the only reason I corrected you was so people didn't get it confused. My birthday is May 4th so I noted in my head when the news broke.
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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby willyk » 30 Mar 2022 06:00

If any of the proposed nearby projects gets started now, the new park gets a lot of the credit. The next step will be to advocate for more parks in the CBD. This is one of the clear advantages that the CBD has over Uptown, and this should be the draw for new office development—more parks are walkable from the office space in the CBD.

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

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^More parks in the greater downtown area should be an ongoing initiative, the more residents, the more park average.... At this point, though, I think the most important park infrastructure that is totally missing is dedicated pedestrian and cyclist connections. All the downtown area parks must be connected, and the big picture connects the Trinity River Forest to Reverchon, Samuel Grand, the leveed Trinity channel bottoms, Katy trail etc.

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Postby IcedCowboyCoffee » 30 Mar 2022 13:41

tamtagon wrote:^More parks in the greater downtown area should be an ongoing initiative, the more residents, the more park average.... At this point, though, I think the most important park infrastructure that is totally missing is dedicated pedestrian and cyclist connections. All the downtown area parks must be connected, and the big picture connects the Trinity River Forest to Reverchon, Samuel Grand, the leveed Trinity channel bottoms, Katy trail etc.


I've been wondering about this recently... The 2004 downtown parks master plan was fulfilled with the completion of Klyde Warren in 2012, and the 2013 master plan update will be completed when Harwood park finishes, so now I wonder what's next. I wonder if the folks with the shovels are looking into another set of 'priority parks' for writing into a master plan v1.3 or if we'll be parking the bus to maintain the current parks for a while. The only future downtown park I'm aware of is the completely theoretical park that would emerge from a convention center redo.

I agree with your broader point completely though. I wouldn't mind holding off on more parks for a bit if we could focus on the pedestrian and cyclist experience downtown to connect all the parks we have. I'm a huge proponent of identifying viable streets to shut down to auto traffic completely and making them pedestrian/bike boulevards and identifying others for reducing car lanes to expand sidewalks+tree coverage+restaurant patios. In my ideal world the entire core would be gradually closed off, but I'm willing to compromise and meet in the middle of just shutting down one or two streets. :lol:

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby oo.oo » 03 Apr 2022 08:51

Amen to an improved pedestrian and cyclist experience. Sorely needed. If you look at NCTCOG's map of trails and bikeways, you can see there is some stuff planned for CBD. Little of it funded, so who knows, but the idea is out there. Look specifically at the two "Bikeways: Off-Street" layers. (As we know, "On-Street" here is bollocks, mostly lowest effort sharrows.)

The map shows a future bikeway starting at Pacific Plaza and heading west along Pacific Ave, turning north at Market, then forming a loop around virtually the whole of CBD. Click on the loop and you'll find that it's evocatively named the "Emerald Bracelet Trail." This would connect Pacific Plaza, Thanksgiving Square, West End Square, Klyde Warren Park, Carpenter Park (to bring this tangentially back on topic), any future thing in the convention center area, and Dealy Plaza.

Overall very promising, but so far only the section near KW park is funded, meaning we'll be lucky to see the whole thing in our lifetimes.

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Postby undefinedprocess » 03 Apr 2022 21:46

oo.oo wrote:Amen to an improved pedestrian and cyclist experience. Sorely needed. If you look at NCTCOG's map of trails and bikeways, you can see there is some stuff planned for CBD. Little of it funded, so who knows, but the idea is out there. Look specifically at the two "Bikeways: Off-Street" layers. (As we know, "On-Street" here is bollocks, mostly lowest effort sharrows.)

The map shows a future bikeway starting at Pacific Plaza and heading west along Pacific Ave, turning north at Market, then forming a loop around virtually the whole of CBD. Click on the loop and you'll find that it's evocatively named the "Emerald Bracelet Trail." This would connect Pacific Plaza, Thanksgiving Square, West End Square, Klyde Warren Park, Carpenter Park (to bring this tangentially back on topic), any future thing in the convention center area, and Dealy Plaza.

Overall very promising, but so far only the section near KW park is funded, meaning we'll be lucky to see the whole thing in our lifetimes.

Great catch... I'll cryogenically freeze myself so I can be sure to see it completed in its entirety! :lol:

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby Tnexster » 28 Apr 2022 14:16

Downtown Dallas has a glowing, $20.1 million new park with a landmark work of sculpture
Architecture critic Mark Lamster writes about the rebirth of Carpenter Park and artist Robert Irwin’s ‘Portal Park Slice.’

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta ... sculpture/

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby IcedCowboyCoffee » 28 Apr 2022 14:40

Great looking shots; can't overstate how excited I am for this one, and I'm happy to see downtown finally getting a basketball court.

I just hope we address the 345 problem some day... It's no shock that regularly hanging around a freeway is abysmal for one's health.

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Carpenter Park Opening Day - Meetup

Postby undefinedprocess » 02 May 2022 17:07

Been forgetting to post this here... Smh :roll: I'm heading to Carpenter Park to check it out since tomorrow is opening day (Tuesday, May 3rd) at around 6:00 PM. Over in the Discord, about 5-10 people have said they're down to do a little meetup at the park around that time, so please reply here (or in the Discord) if you're down so we can all coordinate.

Regardless, I'll be out there for a couple of hours to take photos & all myself. Lmk!

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby tamtagon » 02 May 2022 17:51

looking forward to seeing your pics!

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby potatocoins » 03 May 2022 16:29

Thanks for the heads up! Sorry, won't be able to join you guys, but enjoy and also looking forward to the pics!

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Re: Downtown: Carpenter Park

Postby texasstar » 06 Jun 2022 10:29

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