Construction of the deck park on top of Woodall Rodgers freeway is moving right along.   Crews are about 80 percent finished with the crossbeams that span the 5.2-acre site and 40 percent of the waterproofing is complete.   Once construction is c...

DALLAS — A new park now under construction on top of Woodall Rodgers Freeway and adjacent to the Dallas Arts District is on time to open in the fall of 2012.   Every day, workers are moving closer to bringing what's simply being called "The Park" to life, and its develope...

The greening of Dallas: New urban oases being built for downtown residents, visitors   By Helen Anders AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF   DALLAS — In the early 2000s, this city's leaders looked around downtown and saw good hotels and...

Here in this can-do, Sun Belt city, the picture looks entirely different. The Dallas Arts District gathers this city's major arts museums and performance halls in a 19-block area to the northeast of the shimmering downtown skyline. The district is billed as the nation's largest contiguous urban arts district, and that's not its only distinction. It may be the only place ...

Another $9 million in combined contributions from several families was announced Thursday for the Woodall Rodgers deck park in Dallas. The park bridging the Woodall Rodgers Freeway between downtown and Uptown near the Arts District, is under construction. The $9 million in donations announced Thursday will help pay for amenities in the park once construction is complet...

DALLAS — On the 14th floor of the very high-security Hunt Oil building in downtown Dallas, we could see clearly how much progress had been made on The Park. The 5.2-acre park is being built over Woodall Rodgers Freeway between Pearl and St. Paul and is designed to be a connector between Uptown, Downtown, and Victory Park in Dallas. It will be finished in fall 2012. The ...

Other big donations came from the family of Dallas Fed headThe Woodall Rogers Deck Park Foundation's still $17 million shy of its fund-raising target, but with construction well under way, the series of major donations announced today was a fine chance for Mayor-For-One-More-Day Tom Leppert to take one last photo op beside a group of kids and wax dreamy on the bright fut...

On the 14th floor of the Hunt Oil Headquarters Building, the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation announced $9 million in donations that will go to towards building The Park, a 5.2 acre par that will bridge over Woodall Rodgers Freeway in downtown Dallas.  City leaders were on hand to welcome the cash influx to one of Dallas’ signature construction projects current...

Backers of the planned Woodall Rodgers Deck Park announced more than $9 million worth of progress Thursday in fundraising for the park, which will one day link downtown Dallas to Uptown and mitigate the division created by the freeway that shares its name. "We believe The Park will be transformational for our city," said a statement from Richard Fisher, whose family is ...

Katie Minchew went to today’s meeting at the Hunt building to hear about the latest fundraising news regarding The Park. Today the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation announced “significant progress in the capital campaign.” Since I have been following the construction of The Park on FrontBurner, I was invited to the press conference to meet some of the ne...

D Magazine's Bi-Weekly Update on The Park - 2/01/2011
by: Katie Michew & Krista Nightengale

Construction Update: The Park Remember yesterday when snow and ice weren’t everywhere? Think back to that as you read about Katie Minchew’s tour of The Park, which she took on a warmer day....

DALLAS — Every weekend on the Woodall Rodgers Freeway in downtown Dallas, drivers hit a detour as crane operators and construction crews seize control of the highway. "Anywhere from 80 to 100 men on this project at any given ti...

Among the 316 concrete beams that will hold up the deck park over Woodall Rodgers Freeway, one stands out.   Painted by three artists, the 110-foot monolith transitions through the colors of each season and features a picture of the Dallas skyline. Once hidden away in the $100 million park's foundation, the beam will serve as a sort of time capsule and won't be...

Slowly but surely, construction crews are making progress on the Woodall Rogers Deck Park in downtown Dallas. The 5.2-acre deck park connecting downtown to Uptown will be something Dallas has not seen before. "We like to say, 'short-term pain for long-term gain,'" said Kristin Gray with the Woodall Rogers Park Foundation. The park's vision can be difficult to co...

Check out this USA Today feature on The Park:   Cities are removing the concrete barriers that freeways form through their downtowns — not by tearing them down but by shrouding them in greenery and turning them into parks and pedestrian-friendly developments. This gr...

The Park-To-Be Over Woodall Rodgers Freeway Meredith Land, NBCDFW.com A 5.2-acre deck park is being build over the freeway will link downtown Dallas and Uptown.

Check out this exerpt from the Austin American Statesman, it features the Park. downtown Dallas gets its green on   A park over a freeway? I'll admit I've had trouble visualizing this, but Dallas is already tossing dirt to make it happen. The city is b...

The Park was featured in the blog "Walkable: Dallas-Fort Worth," click here to see the full post.   Wow. Never thought the Main Street Garden post would generate as much positive and negative comments as it did. Look I love that the park was built. Frankly, the quibbles regarding what is ...

My How We've Changed - 1/08/2010
by: Dallas Morning News

The Park is featured in a Dallas Morning News editorial: "My, how you've changed!" Everyone's had the experience of seeing something for the first time in a few years, and it suddenly looks like a whole new ballgame. Take...

The Park is featured in The Dallas Morning News article: "On New Year's, we take a look at where Dallas will go in 2010."     

Tom Leppert included The Park in his New Year's Eve article about Dallas's bright future. The coming of a new year and moving into a new decade provides an opportunity to reflect on where we have been and what lies ah...

Just In: New Woodies - 12/17/2009
by: D's Sweet Charity - Jeanne Prejean

Check out D Magazine's Sweet Charity Blog: Those wonderful people over at the Woodall Rodgers Park (pictured) Foundation have just added three great additions to its board. They are. . . drum roll, please! Nancy Best, president of the Shelter Ministries Garrett Boone, chairman...

The Dallas Morning News: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visited the construction site of the future Woodall Rodgers Deck Park on Monday and very much liked what he saw.

WFAA: The Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, which is currently under construction, will not just be a new attraction in downtown Dallas; it will also serve as a political trophy for the President Barack Obama administration and Democrats in Congres...

KERA's Arts & Seek Blog: At Monday’s Ground Making ceremony of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, Mayor Tom Leppert proclaimed  it a great day for Dallas and applauded the city’s “can-do spirit.” Jody Grant, Woodall Rodg...

For Them, Not To Them - 9/15/2009
by: Renegade Bus - Peter Simek

Renegade Bus: As much as a groundbreaking shows the first physical signs of progress towards the realization of a dream, it also reflects the closing gap in time before a project realized is set in stone. Ground was broken on the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park yesterday...

KERA: Construction of the Woodall Rodgers "Deck Park" in downtown Dallas will start late next month. KERA's BJ Austin attended groundbreaking ceremonies. There was no ribbon to cut at the groundbreaking inside a new condo bui...

NBC 5: Dallas supporters celebrated Monday the start of construction for a new downtown park. The park will be constructed on a deck over the Woodall Rodgers Freeway, bridging the gap between downtown and uptown Dallas. “It ...

CBS 11: Woodall Rodgers Freeway is a sea of concrete and traffic.  In two years, it will be an urban oasis.   Dallas City leaders met Monday morning for a groundbreaking of the d...

Deck park, DART and feelin' groovy in Big D - 9/14/2009
by: The Dallas Morning News - Jacquielynn Floyd

The Dallas Morning News Metro Columnists Blog: It's easy (and fun!) to gripe and moan about everything that gets wasted, scammed, fumbled, or screwed up in this town, but today I would like to issue a chirpy reminder that Dallas is, in som...

The Dallas Observer Unfair Park Blog: As much fun as Mayor Tom Leppert and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson could have had shoveling dirt down onto rush hour traffic, this morning's "ground-making" for the Woodall Rodgers Freeway Deck Park took a more co...

The Dallas Morning News :Construction is expected to begin next month on a 5.2-acre park that will span the Woodall Rodgers Freeway and provide a pedestrian link between downtown Dallas and Uptown. The Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation celebrated ...

Fox 4: Get ready for construction to begin on the Woodall Rodgers Freeway as the city builds the five-acre deck park that will cover it. The park that will cover the freeway is getting one step closer to be coming a reality and Monday is the official ground breaking ceremo...

Stimulus Funds Spur Groundbreaking - 9/09/2009
by: GlobeSt.com - Amy Wolff Sorter

GlobeSt.com: Federal funding provides the push to launch construction on the $100-million Woodall Rodgers Park, a pedestrian, mixed-use link between the CBD and Uptown.