Dallas Morning News: Your first look at Oak Cliff’s I-35E deck park master plan and why this project is a national model

Today I bring you the first look at the master plan for the Southern Gateway deck park, a greenspace that will echo Oak Cliff’s limestone escarpment and lush tree canopy as it unfurls over Interstate 35E 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.