band shell<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cThis is one of Dallas\u2019, I feel, most underutilized asset,\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cWe should be able to learn from that past and put together a plan that will ensure success going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jenkins says long-term that means working with both the Dallas City Council, the Dallas Park and Recreation Board, and businesses to create more opportunities for retail, restaurants and hotels.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the (Fair Park) master plan, it does call for a hotel here,\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cWe\u2019re staying in line with the master plan.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the more immediate time frame, Jenkins, along with Ryan O\u2019Connor, assistant director of Dallas Park and Recreation, are working to get venues like the band shell reactivated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is kind of the space that\u2019s ripe for programming opportunities,\u201d O\u2019Connor said.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the two-year, $140 million renovation to the nearby Cotton Bowl is set to be completed later this month, which includes wider concourses, the addition of escalators,<\/a> and luxury suites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Fair Park prepares to host the State Fair of Texas in three weeks, Dallas leaders are exploring…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,18367,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-203957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-fair-park","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115155224666825595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}