It's funny how one thing leads to another that was better than the first intention. Such was the case yesterday.There is a new place to get your feet wet in downtown Dallas in the new Carpenter Park. It is the 5th green space in downtown, but this one, changes the view of the skyline in many different ways. Not only does it favor the triangle that runs off the Main, Elm, Commerce corridor, it includes a lot of the new buildings that are filling in a lot of empty spaces. (To bad, Amazon. This space could have held your search for a new home.)
Not only does space provide a great walking area around the park, but contains a great dog area; a basketball court; plenty of new tables and chairs with wood benches in other areas. Two water splash areas and a very powerful fountain that shoots into the air. There are public restrooms that are clean, vendors being lined up for food trucks. The old John Carpenter statue that had been in storage is now in prominent view.
This park is across from the East Transit Center which has been shaken out of its sleep and is active and convenient. The office tower lunch crowds now have a place where they can sit on a hillside lawn or use the table and chairs and benches and then go for a scenic green space walk on their lunch breaks. There are also rocks in which you can yoga and balance beams hued out of solid trees trunks that you can climb or just sit and swing your legs.
