“This park literally brought downtown Dallas back to life.”

Doug Dzina
Food Truck Operator
Bondi Bowls
.…on the planned $155 million expansion of Klyde Warren Park in downtown Dallas, via the Dallas Morning News.

Downtown Dallas’ Klyde Warren Park is slated to get a $155 million expansion, with 1.7 new acres extending the deck park over Woodall Rodgers Freeway via a new build-out between St. Paul and Akard. According to the Dallas Morning News, the park’s leaders aim to re-bid the project—which was delayed by the pandemic—in 2025 and open the new addition by end of 2028.

That makes food truck operators like Dzina happy for new business, and should add to the 1,300 free events in the park annually by around 30%, Jody Grant, chairman of the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation, told the DMN’s Sofia Barnett.

On tap for the planned expansion: a new indoor event building, a festival-friendly artificial-turf lawn, and an ice-skating rink for those not-so-cold Dallas winters.

You can read more about the expansion in the DMN story here.

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