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Trinity River
Rendering of just part of Harold Simmons Park. [Image: Trinity Park Conservancy]
Dallas’ Harold Simmons Park Gets $1M Federal Funding for Land Bridge Over Beckley Avenue
by Lance Murray | Apr 24, 2024
The 130-foot-long land bridge over Beckley Avenue will create a major park connector, linking Harold Simmons Park’s West Overlook with the park’s nature preserve. The planned $325 million Trinity River park aims to "bring Dallas together," says Congressman Marc Veasey.
by Lance Murray |
Mar 14, 2024
It's been 146 years since the last total solar eclipse wowed viewers in Dallas. The Trinity Park Conservancy says its April 8 event at the Ron Kirk Bridge and Felix Lozada Gateway will offer "a truly unique" way to experience the next one.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 7, 2023
For decades, Dallas has dreamed of a transformational park along the Trinity River near downtown Dallas. This week, the Trinity Park Conservancy announced that a groundbreaking will finally happen in 2024. The 250-acre Harold Simmons Park will offer community-uniting nature, a stunning playground with towers and tube slides, a prairie walk, a two-acre bike and skate park, overlooks with views of the greenway and the city skyline, and more.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 13, 2023
The project aims to reroute part of the Trinity River near downtown Fort Worth and create Panther Island—which the city hopes will become a massive housing and mixed-use entertainment and recreational district. The new 2023 funding is on top of $403 million already allocated to the project as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2022.
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[Image: Courtesy Fort Worth Economic Development]
Fort Worth: The Frontier of Innovation
by Fort Worth Economic Development | Aug 23, 2022
Entrepreneurs and industry leaders benefit from the city's business-friendly approach.
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sponsored by Fort Worth Economic Development
by David Seeley |
Jun 16, 2022
The first-ever outpost of Karl's Fishing & Outdoors aims to hook you with Mystery Tackle Boxes, interactive "bait tech" experiences that play for each lure you grab off the wall, and a 40-foot "Bassmobile" parked outside today through Sunday.
Karl's "promises to deliver an experience that hasn’t been seen in the outdoor category," says the retail experience director for its parent company, Catch Co.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 21, 2022
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced plans Wednesday to spend $403 million on the final design and build of a 1.5-mile flood-control bypass channel, which will reroute part of the Trinity River near downtown Fort Worth—and create Panther Island.
Fort Worth hopes the 800-acre island will become a massive housing and mixed-use entertainment and recreational district, connecting downtown Fort Worth to the city’s cultural district and the Stockyards.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 16, 2021
Powered by the sun and the river's current, two Trinity River Waterwheels will be able to capture tons of floating pollution daily—keeping the waterway pristine as it flows through Fort Worth. The city council voted Tuesday to accept private donations to support the initiative. One official says the results will be "astonishing."
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Trinity Park Conservancy Program Places Among Texan by Nature’s 2020 Conservation Wranglers
by Lauren Hawkins | Apr 20, 2020
The 2020 Conservation Wranglers are expected to be recognized at Dallas' George W. Bush Presidential Center on October 27, 2020.
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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
Aug 22, 2018
The Trust for Public Lands study released Wednesday shows that 60 percent of Dallas residents live within a 10-minute walk to a park.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 22, 2018
Here are examples of how DFW is embracing human-scaled urban design.
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by Heather Noel |
Aug 16, 2017
To be eligible for the city of Dallas' annual contest, photos must be taken this year between Jan. 1-Oct. 15.
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View of the Trinity River floodway looking southeast with the Margaret McDermott Bridge and the Trinity Skyline Trail along the Trinity River. [ Photo: Courtesy of The Trinity Trust Foundation ]
UTA Dean: Trinity River ‘Linear District’ Would be DFW Hub
by Lance Murray | Feb 16, 2017
The river would be the "magnetic core" to all the great institutions and attributes that Dallas-Fort Worth has to offer.
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by Kerry Curry |
Feb 8, 2017
The funding recently approved by Congress brings the massive project in Fort Worth closer to reality.
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