“We’re not just building a park. We’re transforming a city.”
Deedie Rose
Board Chair
Trinity Park Conservancy
.…on next year’s groundbreaking for the $325 million Harold Simmons Park along the Trinity River near downtown Dallas.
The Trinity Park Conservancy unveiled plans last week for the $325 million Harold Simmons Park—a 250-acre park along a stretch of the Trinity River close to downtown. Named after the late billionaire businessman whose wife, Annette Simmons, donated $50 million for the park in 2016—it will be located between the Margaret McDermott Bridge and Ronald Kirk Bridge just west of downtown Dallas.
The 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. Read all about it—and see lots of renderings—in our story here.
A rendering of part of a planned playground at Harold Simmons Park. [Image: Trinity Park Conservancy]
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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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