$23 million contribution from the Halperin Foundation for the naming rights.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThat was a huge milestone for us,\u201d Allen said. The Halperin family\u2019s commitment was transformational, she said.<\/p>\n
Designing a deck park<\/p>\n
Halperin is the second deck park to be added to the city\u2019s system, following Klyde Warren in Uptown. Allen said the design drew on lessons from the other space, where cars line up next to the highway and traffic backs up during events. Halperin has a turnaround off the access road that\u2019s wide enough to bring in food trucks, health resources or park school buses.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very specific design element,\u201d Allen said. \u201cWhat we heard when we did our community input sessions is that it can just be very difficult to get dropped off \u2026 we can also block it off and do fun things out here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The park amenities have also been designed to mirror Oak Cliff\u2019s lush, rolling landscape, Allen said. The foliage was planned to be pollinator-friendly, reflecting the prairieland Oak Cliff is known for and to have the highway serve as a route for monarchs.<\/p>\n
The bandshell is formed by large arches of mass timber, a type of engineered wood. The community building is also a mass timber construction. The playground is inspired by a tree house in the woods, Allen said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll see throughout the park, it has a very natural aesthetic,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n
Most importantly, Allen said, the park was designed with community in mind, where people can gather in several configurations and form connections. There are numerous places to sit and take in the downtown skyline. Allen hopes the space will serve as a \u201crespite\u201d for the community.<\/p>\n
When Allen joined the project in 2020, she said it felt like there was a long way to go before the park\u2019s opening. There was skepticism because \u201cwe\u2019ve had a lot of great ideas in southern Dallas, and maybe they haven\u2019t always come to fruition.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really exciting to be looking toward an opening and having families and our community here,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
This reporting is part of the Future of North Texas, a community-funded journalism initiative supported by the Commit Partnership, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, the Dallas Mavericks, the Dallas Regional Chamber, Deedie Rose, Lisa and Charles Siegel, the McCune-Losinger Family Fund, The Meadows Foundation, the Perot Foundation, the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and the University of Texas at Dallas. The News retains full editorial control of this coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sitting above Interstate 35E traffic, a new playground, band shell and amphitheater are taking shape in southern Dallas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":482558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,2556,14055,50,10429,14054,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-482557","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-development","11":"tag-future-of-north-texas","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-oak-cliff","14":"tag-southern-dallas","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115814668092881290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482557","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=482557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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