A Dallas News op-ed argues for a repackaging of the Dallas' ongoing open space and park investments to properly acknowledge the scale of the city's accomplishments.
"Dallas is about to become known as one of America's greenest cities, with America's largest urban nature park, and almost no one knows about it," writes Stephen S. Smith.
Smith describes the city's various nature-oriented projects as pieces of a puzzle—under appreciated because of the many separate agencies and entities working on the projects. All of the projects, however, are focused on the Trinity River Corridor, explains Smith, spreading "from where the main stem of the Trinity River starts, just upstream from the Mockingbird-Westmoreland bridge, and goes all the way down to where the river crosses Interstate 20 at Dallas' southern city limit."
Smith says all the disconnected projects will soon come together to create the Nature District, which will eventually total 10,000 acres, or ten times the size of New York's Central Park. Once the work is done, writes Smith, Dallas will benefit from amenities for lovers of birds, horses, golf, lakes, and more.
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