Belo Garden Park
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Belo Garden Park will be a 1.5 acre (0.607029 ha) public park
located in downtown
Dallas, Texas, USA. The park will be located between Main and Commerce, east of Griffin in the Main Street District. The park, formerly a parking lot, will feature perennial gardens, shaded groves, plaza spaces, an interactive fountain, a 10’ high hill which provides topographical relief and views over the central fountain plaza, and a shaded garden grove with movable tables and chairs.
In 2006 Belo
Corp. committed $6.5 toward the 14.5 million construction of the park. It is one of several downtown parks planned by the City of Dallas, which include Main Street Garden Park
and Pacific Plaza Park
.
Although scheduled for groundbreaking in 2008 the timeline was delayed due to the discovery of contaminated soil. Soil removal began in July 2010, and the park is now scheduled to open in early 2012.
Belo Garden's design has been the center of local controversy. A 12-foot wall separating the park from the adjacent Metropolitan Building has been included for reasons including traffic protection and noise isolation. Professionals have called this feature unneeded and anti-urban, but a resolution with Belo has not been reached.
Park
A park is a protected area, in its natural or semi-natural state, or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment, or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. It may consist of rocks, soil, water, flora and fauna and grass areas. Many parks are legally protected by...
located in downtown
Downtown
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Dallas, Texas, USA. The park will be located between Main and Commerce, east of Griffin in the Main Street District. The park, formerly a parking lot, will feature perennial gardens, shaded groves, plaza spaces, an interactive fountain, a 10’ high hill which provides topographical relief and views over the central fountain plaza, and a shaded garden grove with movable tables and chairs.
In 2006 Belo
Belo
Belo Corp. is a Dallas-based media company that owns 20 commercial broadcasting television stations and two regional 24-hour cable news television channels. The company was previously known as A.H. Belo Corp. after one of the early owners of the company, Alfred Horatio Belo, now the name of the...
Corp. committed $6.5 toward the 14.5 million construction of the park. It is one of several downtown parks planned by the City of Dallas, which include Main Street Garden Park
Main Street Garden Park
Main Street Garden Park is a public park located in downtown Dallas, Texas, USA The $17.4 million park was primarily funded through the City of Dallas’ 2003 and 2006 bond programs and is the first of several planned downtown core parks, including Pacific Plaza Park and Belo Garden Park...
and Pacific Plaza Park
Pacific Plaza Park
Pacific Plaza Park will be a public park located in downtown Dallas, Texas, USA. The park will be located between St. Paul Street and Harwood Street, north of Pacific Avenue in the City Center District. The City of Dallas acquired the land—currently parking lots—with help from the Trust for Public...
.
Although scheduled for groundbreaking in 2008 the timeline was delayed due to the discovery of contaminated soil. Soil removal began in July 2010, and the park is now scheduled to open in early 2012.
Belo Garden's design has been the center of local controversy. A 12-foot wall separating the park from the adjacent Metropolitan Building has been included for reasons including traffic protection and noise isolation. Professionals have called this feature unneeded and anti-urban, but a resolution with Belo has not been reached.