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The Dallas Park and Recreation Department has terminated its contract with Fair Park First and Oak View Group as the first ...
The city and operator Oak View Group had been at odds over maintenance, use of funds and utility payments at the park.
New renderings of the Community Park, to be built along South Fitzhugh Avenue adjacent to Fair Park, include this one of the proposed Prairie Wonderland area. Construction of the nine-to-10-acre ...
Fair Park officials announced a $2.6 million funding ... tensions could inspire more confidence that the park will be built. “We’re going to get it done,” she said.
Veletta Forsythe Lill, who assumed the role of chair in June after the resignation of its founding chair, says Fair Park First wasn’t built with the resources necessary to be an effective ...
Fair Park is part of Texas history with all its valor, grandness, puffery and shame. The site was first built in 1886 for what was then the Dallas State Fair. It featured exhibition spaces and a ...
other organizations that use Fair Park and people who live nearby. Community Park will be built during the first phase of the organization's master plan. LISTEN on the Audacy App ...
Built on former cotton fields, Fair Park had other initial uses beyond the annual fair. It was home to a race track and an ice skating rink and, in 1930, the opening of the Cotton Bowl added fuel ...