envision CONTEXT

KLYDE WARREN PARK

ARTS DISTRICT

0.43 MI

NORTH PEARL STREET

0.52 MI NORTH OLIVE STREET

NORTH HARWOOD STREET

NORTH ST. PAUL STREET

0.25 MI NORTH ERVAY STREET

NORTH AKARD STREET CARPENTER PARK LIVE OAK STREET NORTH FIELD STREET PACIFIC AVENUE NORTH GRIFFIN STREET THANKSGIVING SQUARE 0.15 MI ELM STREET

MAIN STREET

0.18 MI MAIN STREET GARDEN

COMMERCE STREET

0.33 MI 0.45 MI HARWOOD PARK BELO GARDEN

0.60 MI

0.58 MI

FARMERS MARKET

0.46 MI PIONEER PARK

CITY HALL PLAZA

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ADAM’S MARK CONFERENCE CENTER NORTH OLIVE STREET 3

NORTH HARWOOD STREET PARKING GARAGE

ONE DALLAS CENTRE

LIVE OAK STREET

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4 3 NORTH ST. PAUL STREET 4 JAMES W. ASTON PARK

REPUBLIC CENTER TOWER

PACIFIC AVENUE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

MAJESTIC THEATRE

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Central to the shaping of one of Downtown Dallas’ premiere public spaces, is giving a voice to the diverse communities Pacific Plaza will serve.

On March 29th, 2016 Parks for Downtown Dallas in collaboration with SWA hosted a series of public engagement meetings, inviting dialogue and encouraging participation from all. These community-generated ideas will act as a key source of insight during the design process, and enable the proposal for Pacific Plaza to be one that reflects the uniqueness of Dallas and the passion of those to whom it matters most.

PACIFIC PLAZA 6 7 PACIFIC PLAZA SESSION 01_MARCH 29TH 12P-1:30P (414 TOTAL VOTES) SESSION 01_MARCH 29TH 12P-1:30P (201 TOTAL VOTES)

Session 01_12:00p - 1:30p (414 Total Votes) Session 02_5:30p - 7:00p (201 Total Votes) SESSION 01_MARCH 29TH COMBINED (615 TOTAL VOTES)

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100 100 TE PLAY MIST PLAY MIST POOL OPEN READ YOGA POOL FLOW POND READ OPEN YOGA FLOW POND CLIMB SPRAY SPRAY CLIMB CLOUD SHADY SHADY SWING CLOUD NATIVE NATIVE SWING PICNIC THROW DIGITAL THROW MOBILE MOBILE DIGITAL TRELLIS BUBBLE BUBBLE GATHER GATHER SPLASH SPLASH TRELLIS POP-UP POP-UP FORMAL FORMAL REFLECT REFLECT DROP-IN DROP-IN CLEANSE CLEANSE INTIMA INTIMATE SENSORY CASCADE SENSORY CASCADE ETHEREAL DOG PARK GEOLOGIC ETHEREAL GEOLOGIC DOG PARK CULTIVATE CULTIVATE EXPANSIVE EXPANSIVE LANDFORM BOTANICAL BOTANICAL LANDFORM CRAFT FAIR PLAYSCAPE CRAFT FAIR PLAYSCAPE BANDSHELL REFLECTIVE BANDSHELL REFLECTIVE PERMANENT PERMANENT FRAME VIEW FRONT YARD GEOLOGICAL FRONT YARD FRAME VIEW GEOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVE GREEN ROOF GREEN ROOF MOVIE NIGHT MOVIE INFORMATIVE MOVIE NIGHT MOVIE CITY-SCALED INFORMATIVE CITY-SCALED DANCE PARTY DANCE PARTY EDUCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TOPOGRAPHIC TOPOGRAPHIC WALL/SCREEN WALL/SCREEN OUTDOOR WIFI HANG AROUND OUTDOOR WIFI HANG AROUND OUTDOOR CAFE OUTDOOR CAFE TRELLIS/ARBOR LARGE PAVILION BIKE AMENITIES TRELLIS/ARBOR LARGE PAVILION BIKE AMENITIES ARCHITECTURAL ARCHITECTURAL HUMAN-SCALED HUMAN-SCALED GATEWAY/PORTAL GATEWAY/PORTAL FARMERS MARKET FARMERS FARMERS MARKET FARMERS UNIQUELY PLAYFUL UNIQUELY UNIQUELY PLAYFUL UNIQUELY DISCOVER / LEARN DISCOVER DISCOVER / LEARN DISCOVER ART INSTALLATIONS PICNIC IN THE PARK ART INSTALLATIONS LIVE PERFORMANCE LIVE PERFORMANCE UNCOMMON NATURE UNCOMMON NATURE EXERCISE AMENITIES EXERCISE AMENITIES RESPONSIVE/KINETIC RESPONSIVE/KINETIC HEROIC LIGHT ELEMENT HEROIC LIGHT ELEMENT

OVERALL TOTALS (615 Total Votes)

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100 PLAY MIST READ YOGA POOL OPEN FLOW POND CLIMB SPRAY SHADY SWING CLOUD NATIVE THROW DIGITAL MOBILE BUBBLE GATHER SPLASH TRELLIS POP-UP FORMAL REFLECT DROP-IN CLEANSE INTIMATE SENSORY CASCADE DOG PARK GEOLOGIC ETHEREAL CULTIVATE EXPANSIVE BOTANICAL LANDFORM CRAFT FAIR PLAYSCAPE BANDSHELL REFLECTIVE PERMANENT FRONT YARD GEOLOGICAL FRAME VIEW PRODUCTIVE GREEN ROOF MOVIE NIGHT MOVIE INFORMATIVE CITY-SCALED DANCE PARTY EDUCATIONAL TOPOGRAPHIC WALL/SCREEN OUTDOOR WIFI HANG AROUND OUTDOOR CAFE BIKE AMENITIES TRELLIS/ARBOR LARGE PAVILION ARCHITECTURAL HUMAN-SCALED GATEWAY/PORTAL FARMERS MARKET FARMERS UNIQUELY PLAYFUL UNIQUELY DISCOVER / LEARN DISCOVER ART INSTALLATIONS PICNIC IN THE PARK LIVE PERFORMANCE UNCOMMON NATURE EXERCISE AMENITIES RESPONSIVE/KINETIC HEROIC LIGHT ELEMENT

PACIFIC PLAZA 8 9 PACIFIC PLAZA “Social Life” Remarks: “Structure” Remarks:

• Address all/any safety / security possibilities (? Drone surveillance perhaps?) • No more walls • Images of gathering/sitting spaces feel similar in nature – I think it would be nice to see a variety of scales in the park. • This location would be great place for lunch, nice tables and benches with food trucks along borders. (I second this) • Splash pad • Yes food trucks • Festival space will help make the park more interactive and relevant to residents • Open access • WIFI is a nice option not required though. • Tagged because this is an interesting project. Not necessarily advocating walls, perse, but this screen wall creates interesting • Whatever you do, it must include consideration for pets (dogs) shapes, sun/shadow, etc. in its landscape (There are much richer photos of this project). • This park space would be well suited ACTION, basketball, bocce, whiffle ball court, NO ping pong please, workout stations would • Food trucks! No gas... Food Carts!! also be great! A kid’s playground and climbing stations (covered) would be good too! • Want more ball fields in Downtown. • Unless regulated this just becomes a HUGE dog park for pee and poop. • Second the ball fields! Give us room to play! (Basketball court). • Green areas for people and pets, bike accessible. • Areas for families with children. • Look hard at synthetic turf. “Nature” Remarks: • Family areas. • Yoga field, place to throw football, play scape for toddlers, elementary age, fenced at least like at Saints Park or Klyde Warren • Shade is important to enjoying the park in summer months. Use deciduous trees to the sun comes through in the winter. • A place play basketball downtown, YES! • Swings and some basketball hoops. • A place to play bocce ball downtown, YES! • Most of our DT Parks are very sunny. MSG has great open space. Would love this park to be more shady with some activities • Make pet area separate so droppings not on shoes (like basketball) but with mostly shady areas for enjoyment of nature. PS Keep the trees! • Football goal posts for 7-12 • Including contour changes to the grounds (hills, slopes, bluff’s) adds interest and helps to give park users diffusing perspective • Football goal posts for toddlers from which to see the park and its surroundings. Belo Garden has a hill and that hill gets as much use as the public fountain. • Café • Lots of shade and wind breaks • Need more space to take dog’s. • Tress that don’t attract birds and their droppings. Saints Park downtown is almost unusable during cold weather because of • Daughter wants park with swings. bird droppings. • Grass we can play on unlike Klyde Warren that closes grad, basketball court and access to recreation that is FREE, portable li- • Drought-tolerant plants! brary. • I want space to walk and play with my dogs while a soccer game takes place. keep it simple and give us space to play. • Wifi and outdoor seating • Escape from Dallas concrete heat / parking lots. • Second the wifi 100% needed. Also outlets at / near seating • Not over programmed • Shade / escape from Dallas car and heat. • Plan ahead for dogs - either no dogs or separate dog relief area • Seating that is not already duplicated in other area parks unless necessary. • Close Live Oak Street • Skateboards and dogs. • Enhance Trees in Aston Park • Space for no dogs. • For residents who run and workout area in the area. it would be great to have a workout station or basic pullup bars, etc to do calisthenic workouts. “Water” Remarks: • More space for dogs. People Downtown have dogs but few areas to take them to. Give us space. • Ball fields, basketball courts, room to play. • A small pond with motorized remote control boats would be great, particularly if it is designed to support a model boat public • Like the idea of establishing a Downtown space that would allow employees to let off a little steam, have fun on activities that event/competition of some kind. This feature would help make Pacific Park unique. are normally reserved for evenings, weekends. • Less is more • Comfortable, vibrant, and inviting. Playable grass. • Some sort of small water body (i.e. Discovery Green yet smaller) would be a unique element to Dallas. Humans desire contem- • Parking, live entertainment. plative space around walls. • Underground automated parking will work - connecto belowgrade to ped system. • We have water parks downtown……I would love to see Pioneer Plaza water feature become beautiful with water lilies and fish. • Baby swings. • Sound of water. • Quote from Jan Gehl: “Something happen because something happen because something happen. Anything that will activate • Where will we get the water? the space and attract people to stay and use the space would be a great strategy.” • Spray / splash. Fun for kids, but can be flat surface for movie nights. • What are the considerations that might lead to the parks having public-private partnerships? Parks should fundamentally be • No H2O unless design feature can be maintained without stinky chlorine. public-owned and supported. • Interactive / large water sculpture element would be great.

“Icon” Remarks:

• Interactive components (lighting, sound, etc.) consider kinetic art (spurs imagination) • It would be nice if the park had a different feel to the other downtown parks. Variety of natural environments, park setting throughout downtown. • Green space with low lawn chairs / theater space / Shakespeare in the Park. • Work with public city to create public art that enhances the park. • Create something truly unique that has not been done elsewhere - no ersatz or pastiche and also ensure synchornicity and connectivity between all parks so walking them all is encouraged. • functional as well as iconic.

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PACIFIC PLAZA 12 13 PACIFIC PLAZA How would you spend your time in the Plaza? Who would you spend time with in the Plaza?

attraction

music downtime activities guests sit dining nearby outdoors play spaces fields husband contemplative enjoying good friend architecture leisure yogarunningdog vital workinglaptop gathering maybe recreationally tend dog playing napping work wish draw streetscape seating wife working eat socially space incorporate mostly girlfriend usually whoever fun mornings coee love friendsdepends bike relaxation spousepartner walks weekend live kidspet workers listen walkingoutdoor clients jogging silence opportunistic night green oered dogs time relaxing looking downtown opportunities eating relax coworkershanging children walk taking recreationevent paint larkingreadingball family life nice day area yes court evenings peers want dogs people connection basketball watch sitting wifi like talking familyemployees town watchingdog needed solo destination kids entertainment colleagues walkthrough moment read rectime lounging biking week park meet possibly visitors lunchdepends fitness

What amenity would you enjoy most in the Plaza? What time would you go to the Plaza?

mostly etc live second adjacent 121pm designated café anytime lot 1130am course close skateboards dog example court island exall surrounding early small across games picnicking breakfast use yearround summer transit sporting throughout features refer work events shakespeare activated escape music dallas mostly place connection want walk mornings night hours water night sand weekdayslunch volleyball depends good second parking afternoon time special wee like times perhaps seating sports trees warren noon probably activation field friday concrete protest streettables way clubs fountain evening concerts greenheat golf weekendreason winter coee lighting various midday landscaping ice 530p see frisbee campus need possibly trucksopen interactive flexibility playground daytimeneed bike weekends weekday late dining dinner nights 5pm benchesentertainment feature facilities just parkspring day likely foodvendor stop downtown occasional activities evenings 510pm basketball 530pm varies movie needed safety bikes shade shaded main vital love martius klyde garden neighborhood stage events morning buildings space

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