The motto for Dallas’s planned Southern Gateway Public Green is a “A Park with a Purpose.” The forthcoming freeway capping park will span over Interstate 35E, a highway constructed in the 1950s that rips through the neighborhood of Oak Cliff, with the intention to reconnect the separated neighborhoods and harbor a renewed sense of community. Construction on the first phase of the park, designed by SWA Group and HKS, is now progressing, with a massive concrete deck now in place over Interstate 35 that will hold the park. The first phase of the park centers on a 2.8 acre swath of land that is one component of a larger
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