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The Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation met with Texas legislators last week to thank them for their advocacy on behalf of Southern Gateway Park during this spring’s legislative session.
"It's not an idea—it's happening," says April Allen, president of the Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation.
Southern Gateway Park is estimated to cost $172 million and will be built above I-35E near the Dallas Zoo.
The Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation today released its equitable development plan for Southern Gateway Park, the landmark bridge park that will span Interstate 35E between Ewing and Marsalis Avenues, directly adjacent to the Dallas Zoo.
The Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation today unveiled the master plan and design renderings for Southern Gateway Park, the landmark bridge park that will span Interstate 35E between Ewing and Marsalis Avenues, directly adjacent to the Dallas Zoo.
The just-released designs and renderings for this park between Ewing and Marsalis avenues play on our city’s lopsided topography: Nearly all of Dallas’ rolling hills, deep-running creeks and crusty cliffs and ridges are in the southern half. North of I-30 and the Trinity River, it’s nothing much but flat, flat, flat — all the way to Oklahoma.
The construction of Interstate 35E in the 1950s divided Oak Cliff. April Allen is the president of the Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation. She spoke to KERA about her vision for the park.
The first phase set to open at the end of 2023, and the second phase will require some additional fundraising. You can also learn more about the project and see more renderings on its website. But after reading about the new park, I wanted to point out a couple of things that struck me about the project.
South Dallas will soon be home to the city’s newest greenspace known as Southern Gateway Park. Spanning I-35E adjacent to the Dallas Zoo, it’s being hailed as a “park with a purpose” – a playground, pavilion, garden, and more in the heart of Oak Cliff – but with deeper intentions than just recreation.