{"id":785551,"date":"2026-05-10T02:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785551\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T02:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:05:13","slug":"dallas-halperin-park-opens-in-oak-cliff-with-fanfare-and-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785551\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas&#8217; Halperin Park opens in Oak Cliff with fanfare and excitement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fanfare and music greeted hundreds of people in Dallas&#8217; Oak Cliff neighborhood Saturday for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/oak-cliff-halperin-bridge-park-opening-community-effort\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a day nearly a decade in the making<\/a>. The $300 million Halperin Park officially opened to the public through a combination of taxpayer funding and private donations.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Rooney brought his 7\u2011year\u2011old granddaughter, Lylah, to see the new space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s great for the community,&#8221; Rooney said. &#8220;I think the best thing is bringing people together and to have a place for bringing all kinds of kids. It&#8217;s a very diverse community, as everybody knows, and now we&#8217;ve got one place to call our own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to doing the activities and playing,&#8221; Lylah said.<\/p>\n<p>First phase brings new amenities<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can now enjoy green space, a pavilion, an indoor activity area, and a splash pad as part of the project&#8217;s first phase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s three acres. There will be an additional two acres in phase two that starts construction early next year. That takes us all the way to Marsalis,&#8221; park spokesperson Kristin Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p>A neighborhood once split by a highway<\/p>\n<p>Interstate 35E divided the Oak Cliff community in the 1950s. Now, in 2026, park leaders hope the new development will help revive and reconnect the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have this opportunity with the park to literally knit it back together and just create a beautiful, peaceful space that people can come, they can commune, they can get to know people maybe they&#8217;ve never met before,&#8221; Halperin Park President April Allen said.<\/p>\n<p>When phase two is complete, the park will span I\u201135E between Ewing and Marsalis avenues.<\/p>\n<p>Residents welcome improved access and connection<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always had some concerns like you&#8217;re having the zoo here and not having a good pedestrian walkway to the zoo, and so getting the park and the zoo connected I think is pretty great,&#8221; resident Brenda Martinez said.<\/p>\n<p>Phase two is currently in the design stage and will include a dog park. For now, children and families can enjoy Halperin Park&#8217;s offerings during the hot summer months and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fanfare and music greeted hundreds of people in Dallas&#8217; Oak Cliff neighborhood Saturday for a day nearly a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":785552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,8963,10429,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-785551","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-north-texas","11":"tag-oak-cliff","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116547834922149574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785551","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=785551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}