Bridging the Trinity

For the Love of the City History and RECLAIMING BY THE CITY OF DALLAS DOWNTOWN LAKES OUR RIVER 2009 with a City Skyline he dream of two urban cohesive community,” said The Trinity a river should top the priority list of 2008 lakes and a West Dallas lake Trust Board Member Deedie Rose, every one of our civic leaders.” along the Trinity River is who donated funds to hire Ignacio The Balanced Vision Plan from e at The Trinity Trust OCTOBER 2008: happening. Bunster-Ossa of Wallace Roberts & 2003 depicts two lakes across from believe that what we TRINITY RIVER AUDUBON CENTER Dirt begins flying spring of next Todd to envision the amenities for the downtown, a 90-acre urban lake and a are doing is recapturing There is no place more beautiful to experience all nature has to offer in Dallas. Located in the heart of the year for the first phase of the Trinity phase one urban lakes. 60-acre natural lake. the soul of the city. Great Trinity Forest, this Antoine Predock-designed building is an educational learning center for children and Urban Lakes project. These two lakes In Bunster-Ossa’s vision, many of “Imagine our city grounded by a adults with programs about forest creatures, camping, water testing, kayaking and more. Dallas is here, we are here, – totaling 20 acres in the Trinity River the original features of the Trinity system of lakes and a meandering because of the Trinity River. The Location: 6500 Great Trinity Corridor – will create a new gathering River Corridor Project’s Balanced river through its central corridor, Spaniards who saw the three forks Forest Boulevard place with paddle boarding, canoeing Vision Plan are echoed, such as providing natural beauty and of the Trinity in 1690 exclaimed: and picnicking—in the center of the the council rings, an amphitheater, recreation and encouraging unity, “La Santisima Trinidad,” the Most DECEMBER 2008: LOWER CHAIN OF WETLANDS city. water maze, pavilion, and trails. connection and development for Gail Thomas, Holy Trinity. And John Neely Bryan Created by the U.S. Army Corps of “Dallas citizens have a new way of These amenities and others will be generations of Dallasites,” said The President and CEO of founded the town of Dallas by The Trinity Trust Foundation Engineers to control flooding, the interacting with the amazing natural funded by private and corporate Trinity Trust Board Member Emily the banks of the river because the wetlands have become an annual resting resources around them and with donors, with the campaign just now Summers. “The Trinity River is our river was its source of life. place for thousands of migratory birds. quietly launching. And if additional city’s legacy.” And then gradually, in the 20th People go to the site for bird watching and “Imagine our city funding is raised, there is the century, Dallas outgrew its river, or at least we thought it did. We moved the to volunteer for trash clean-up. With the grounded by a system of river in the 1930s and 40s and straightened it, and subsequently the life opportunity for a third urban peaceful atmosphere and wildlife, there is lake with 200 acres of green in the river subsided. Amazingly, when we abandoned the river, the life in no better view of the Texas sunrise. OCTOBER 2009: lakes and a meandering space surrounding it. Downtown Dallas began to atrophy as well, and we moved north, east, and Location: I-45 South and Great DALLAS CITYDESIGN STUDIO river through its central west to form new town centers. Now, a 21st century Dallas is emerging, and Trinity Forest Boulevard The CityDesign Studio, initiated with donor funding corridor, providing natural “Those of us involved in the key to this vibrant urban core is the Trinity. received by The Trinity Trust, focuses on elevating the spectacular rebirth of the The Trinity River Corridor Project is the most important project Dallas design awareness and sustainability throughout the beauty and recreation urban core of Dallas that’s will ever have. The Dallas region is one of the city as they are the keys to enhancing livability. The and encouraging underway want to fill the THE TRINITY fastest growing areas in the United States. Connected City Design Challenge, which aims to unite Trinity River Corridor with Downtown Dallas with the Trinity River Corridor, was unity, connection RIVER CORRIDOR Young leaders are considering lifestyle equally people and activities every with economic opportunity in decisions about created by the studio. and development for weekend,” says Dale Foster, PROJECT IS THE where to build their businesses and raise their Location: Dallas City Hall, generations of Dallasites.” principal of 505 Riverfront. 1500 Marilla Street MOST IMPORTANT families. “If we are truly committed 2011 each other as they discover new to making Dallas a world- PROJECT DALLAS In other words…people are coming! WILL EVER HAVE. Imagine water in downtown Dallas. outdoor adventures,” said Assistant class city, then maximizing DECEMBER 2011: City Manager Jill Jordan. “These lakes this magnificent resource of Excavation for two urban lakes will begin in TRINITY FOREST TRAILS PHASE II COUNCIL CIRCLE early 2015. Local paddlers already enjoy the Trinity River, canoeing for miles are game changers.” Bikers and hikers can experience the beauty in South Dallas on the Trinity Forest 2012 Located between the or maneuvering their kayaks in the white water feature of The Dallas Wave. Trail. Weaving 4.5 miles through the Great Trinity Forest, the trail runs by the WATER MAZE Run or hike along the river on the Trinity Skyline Trail, the Trinity Levee Trinity River, City of Dallas’ Ecopark, and the Trinity River Audubon Center. Commerce Street Bridge and the Top Trails, or the Santa Fe Trestle Trail. Soon there will also be a 17.5-mile Location: 4750 Great Trinity Forest Boulevard MARCH 2012: currently-under-construction trail from the Trinity River Audubon Center through the Great Trinity Forest to MARGARET HUNT HILL Margaret McDermott (I-30) White Rock Lake, as well as the 7.8 mile Trinity Strand Trail winding through BRIDGE Bridge, the two lakes will be the Design District and eventually around the Medical District, connecting to A beautiful addition to the iconic constructed with $30 million the Katy Trail at American Airlines Center. Dallas skyline, the Margaret Hunt from the City of Dallas’ 1998 Or perhaps you would rather fly a kite, play soccer, ride a horse or play Hill Bridge arches 400-feet from the bond program. Private funding corridor and connects Downtown golf. Or maybe just have a picnic. The Trinity River Corridor and its amenities raised by The Trinity Trust will Dallas and West Dallas. Architect will allow for all of these activities and more. Santiago Calatrava designed the provide an opportunity for the Play an informal game of soccer in the fields adjacent to Crow Lake bridge in honor of the Dallas additional features. next to the new Sylvan Avenue Bridge, or book a more serious game at philanthropist of the same name. “The lakes will be an important MoneyGram Soccer Park, managed by FC Dallas. Spend an afternoon The Trinity Trust received donor piece of knitting together people horseback riding at the Texas Horse Park and return to the barns for an funding to secure Calatrava and from all parts of our city into a old-fashioned chuck wagon supper. to host three days of opening PERFORMANCES ON Youngsters can learn the game of celebrations. THE RIVERFRONT golf at First Tee, while the grownups Location: Woodall play a few holes at the new Trinity Rodgers Extension Forest Golf Course. The newly renovated Continental 2013 SEPTEMBER 2012: Avenue Bridge offers opportunities SANTA FE TRESTLE TRAIL for sunrise yoga, a quiet game MAY 2013: This mile-long trail juxtaposes city life with nature as it runs near the A TRAIL THROUGH DALLAS’ of chess or a lively bocce ball MARGARET MCDERMOTT Trinity River with the Downtown Dallas skyline peaking over the tournament. The climb-on play BRIDGE GROUNDBREAKING levee. The restored Santa Fe Railroad Trestle now hosts pedestrians and bikers and provides an excellent view of paddlers enjoying The Unknown Forest area and misting fountains are a Supporters filled the room to honor Margaret Dallas Wave below. McDermott and celebrate the groundbreaking of fun place for kids of all ages. For Location: 2295 South Riverfront Boulevard dinner, select something yummy her namesake bridge. With construction estimated from a food truck or wander down for completion in 2017, the bridge will feature a OCTOBER 2012: to the incubator restaurants at signature addition with bike and pedestrian access PAVAHO PUMP Trinity Groves and other nearby designed by architect Santiago Calatrava. The Trinity STATION Trust received donor funding to secure Calatrava. The Trinity Forest Spine Trail will feature 17.5 miles of hard-surface eateries. Finish the day by watching After years of flooding in a glorious sunset and Location: I-30 over the trail that runs from “the Audubon to the Arboretum.” Trinity River, Dallas the West Dallas community, viewing its reflection off the the new high-capacity Dallas skyline. station pumps 375,000 And what about beauty? JUNE 2013: gallons of water per minute. allas is preparing to open a natural asset for the City of Dallas, but to Trinity Forest to White Rock Lake is the Dallas loves beauty. MOORE PARK GATEWAY PAVILION The three pumps, designed new world – a forested world experience it is beyond belief,” said Mary key to making Dallas truly green and a Where else but Dallas AND AMPHITHEATER and manufactured in The – to citizens in a way that has McDermott Cook, Board President of The great, walkable city.” Netherlands, which quickly remove water from the neighborhood, can you enjoy not one but Founded in 1938 in honor of civic leader Will Moore, not been done before. Trinity Trust. “This trail will get lots of This fall will prove a stepping stone in are the first concrete volute pumps in use in the U.S. DThe Trinity Trust is charged with raising people into the forest and they will respect the creation of the longest singular trail in two Santiago Calatrava the Moore Park Gateway received a new pavilion designed bridges? The and amphitheater for the community. This park is a Location: 602 Canada Drive funds to complete the Trinity Forest it .” Dallas. The AT&T Trail, which is a centric graceful cables and soaring gateway in the Trinity River Corridor and connects Spine Trail, a 17.5-mile trail that winds The Trinity Forest arch of the Margaret Hunt to the Santa Fe Trestle Trail and The Dallas Wave. The through the Great Trinity Forest. “From Spine Trail will give “EVERY TIME I TAKE PEOPLE TO THE TRAILS INSIDE Hill Bridge and the two Trinity Trust received donor funding to construct the the Audubon to the Arboretum,” this access to trail use for THE TRINITY FOREST, ESPECIALLY TO THE AT&T amphitheater and pavilion. hard-surfaced trail runs from I-20 in the biking, hiking, and levee-to-levee spanning TRAIL, THEY GET BIG SMILES ON THEIR FACES AND THE CONTINENTAL arches of the Margaret Location: 1900 E. 8th Street 2014 southern sector and connects into the trails enjoying the beauty AVENUE BRIDGE McDermott Bridge are at White Rock Lake in the northern sector. of the largest urban IMMEDIATELY BEGIN TO PLAN THEIR NEXT TRIP” engineering wonders. The JUNE 2014: CONTINENTAL AVENUE BRIDGE The campaign price tag of $35 million bottomland hardwood under-construction McDermott Bridge will provide pedestrian and biking AND WEST DALLAS GATEWAY includes construction, maintenance, and forest in the United States. Not only will part of the Trinity Forest Spine Trail, will access to the corridor and connect Oak Cliff to downtown. Misting fountains, seating areas, an educational component. it connect neighborhoods and people to officially open. The 4.3-mile trail wraps The Trinity project also offers beauty in a natural setting. Wildflowers chess and bocce are just some of the “The forest has been a neglected places not reachable by car, it will alleviate around the outer edges of the Texas Horse activities that are bringing people to blanket the Trinity River Corridor and Great Trinity Forest throughout the foot and bike traffic Park, future Trinity Forest Golf Course and the new pedestrian bridge and plaza. year, attracting hundreds of species of birds and other wildlife. It is a bird from White Rock Lake the Trinity River Audubon Center. With beautiful views of the city watching and nature photography paradise. JUNE 2013: which boasts more than “Every time I take people to the trails GREAT TRINITY and the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, It is happening! access to activities in Trinity Groves, one million visitors per inside the Trinity Forest, especially to the It is wonderful! FOREST GATEWAY AND HORSE TRAILS and connections to the corridor, this year. AT&T Trail, they get big smiles on their Go! Enjoy! “The outdoor faces and immediately begin to plan their This community park is area is already a favorite of citizens. spirit is gaining next trip,” said Craig Holcomb, Executive a favorite spot for local The Trinity Trust received donor Gail Thomas, President and CEO of The Trinity Trust Foundation fishermen and horseback funding to transform the bridge and momentum in Dallas Director of the Trinity Commons riders. Located near I-20 gateway plaza. and we plan to keep Foundation. “Being inside a real forest with on the southern edge of Location: 109 the excitement going,” all its different types of vegetation is one of THE TRINITY TRUST FOUNDATION the Great Trinity Forest, Continental Avenue said City Manager A.C. those truly green experiences we all want.” 1444 Oak Lawn Ave, Suite 200 the park has a beautiful Add to this stunning views of the Gonzalez. “Accessibility The Trinity Trust is currently at work 214.740.1616 lake, fishing pier, trails, Trinity River corridor along the is the heart and soul raising funds for this multi-million dollar thetrinitytrust.org Trinity Skyline Trail, a 4.6-mile trail and pavilions. Location: of any enterprise and project that will transform how people in the corridor for hiking, running, 2161 Dowdy Ferry connecting the Great think of Dallas. Road biking, and other outdoor sports and recreational fun. Location: 110 W. 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The Trinity River Project has the potential to be the catalyst for transformational change in our city. The Trinity River and the Great Trinity Forest are two of our city’s most under-appreciated and under-utilized assets. Every citizen in our city should become informed about the potential to develop these natural resources and then determine how to become involved to ensure that they are preserved and improved to benefit all who live in or visit our community today and for decades to come.” Bobby Lyle, The Trinity Trust Board Member

As the chair of the “The identity Transportation and Trinity Mike Rawlings, Mayor of Dallas of our city is River Project Committee its citizens and allas has something other cities envy: a massive the future of for the Dallas City Council, I green space right in the middle of our city. our city will see a bright, new future for Stretching about 20 miles and 10,000 acres, the be determined Dallas through the Trinity Trinity River Corridor is almost 12 times the size of by the Trinity River Corridor Project. The Central Park in New York and is so centrally located that it literally project. It will reflect our D legacy it brings to this City is cuts our city in half. Because of its enormous size and strategic human needs and values the power of steadfastness location, our grand vision called the Trinity River Corridor Project so it is a project for all.” will be the effort that redefines Dallas in the 21st century. It seems Lynn McBee, The Trinity and reinvention; the power of at times like the results are a century in the making since voters Trust Board Member a river, a began considering its future in the late 1990s, but the work we have forest and completed is already changing how we live and play in Dallas. associated This project is more than a “project.” It is a transformative idea that communities and business development TRINITY RIVER pulls north and south, east and west together. It is a vision that will coming together to create a cosmopolitan unite urban lifestyle with our wild natural side. Vast green spaces are place to live, work and play in Dallas.” being juxtaposed with great architectural achievements. And, most Councilmember Vonciel Jones Hill GREAT TRINITY RIVER FOREST We already see early important, people who never interacted before LEMMON LAKE rewards; first with the are meeting, eating, exercising and talking “The urban core has come to life most recently with the together. symbiotic relationship that economic opening of the Continental Avenue Bridge, West Dallas We already see early rewards; first with Gateway and Trinity Skyline Trail. This incredible corridor development downtown and West the symbiotic relationship that economic includes hiking, restaurants, kayaking and more; and Dallas have with the Margaret Hunt development downtown and West Dallas have is supported by partnerships through Hill Bridge. Real estate development with the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Real estate Southwest Airlines, FedEx, the National development around the bridge is taking off, around the bridge is taking off, but its Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and the Girl but its benefits extend far beyond serving as an Scouts of Northeast Texas. It’s the hottest benefits extend far beyond serving as economic development tool. Bridge architect place to be, and this successful formula will an economic development tool. Santiago Calatrava said, “The Margaret Hunt Hill be replicated all along the Trinity.” Bridge is a beacon that will encourage people to Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Monica Alonzo return to the Trinity River,” and you can see that happening already. When I bike on the new Trinity Skyline Trail along the river down in the floodway or walk on the newly opened Continental Avenue Bridge after dining at a restaurant in Trinity Groves, I realize how close and “The Great Trinity Forest Trail network will provide easy it is to get back to feeling and smelling nature. hiking and biking access to thousands of acres of Another bridge crossing the Trinity River is on its way in 2017. urban bottomland hardwood forest. These trails will enable the public to see natural areas that have The Margaret McDermott Bridge will not only be a sister icon in our never been physically or visibly accessible skyline with the first Calatrava-designed bridge. It will also include a before. What a great way to build awareness, one-of-a-kind pedestrian and bicycle crossing to North Oak Cliff that advocacy and enjoyment of these unique will give us another entry point down into the river bed. Dallas treasures for generations to come.” The corridor is so beautiful and so much bigger than we as Willis Winters, Director for Dallas Park citizens realize. Activities northwest and southeast of downtown in and Recreation Department THE TRINITY TRUST the corridor (parts of town most residents have never visited) are TRAILS AND ALES providing new recreational options for our citizens. The Trinity River Audubon Center hosts thousands of school children every year. MoneyGram Park is open now in the Elm Fork area of the corridor Southern Dallas is with 16 world class athletic and soccer fields that provide Dallas the my passion, and “Our community — after opportunity to host future regional and national soccer events. The the vast area is one of the wrestling with the unruly Trinity Texas Horse Park opens this fall with two nonprofit partners, Equest most beautiful and varied for 170 years — is finally realizing and River Ranch. The horse park will give us the opportunity and the landscapes in America its visionary plans to fully achieve freedom to ride horses on 600 acres and give us our own little ranch featuring the Trinity River, right in the middle of our city. And later this year the 6,000-acre Great the economic, recreational and the Great Trinity Forest and environmental Trinity Forest just five minutes southeast of downtown needs to be historic neighborhoods and potential of our part of your holiday plans. business districts. The Trinity r i v e r.” There is a lot more coming in the future, including lakes, trails River Audubon Center, Texas and more recreational options. Like you, I am anxious to see more of Horse Park, Bob Meckfessel, these as soon as possible, but that comes only with hard work, careful Trinity Forest The Trinity Trust planning, generous commitments and community partnerships. Trails, and the Board Member The team helping these dreams come true is large and features Trinity Forest leaders from nonprofits and local, state and federal governments, Golf Course are unique features in terms of any city, which serves as a great metaphor for the uniting catalyst this project and they anchor the change that has already arrived CONTINENTAL represents. AVENUE BRIDGE in southern Dallas.” Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins That became clear to me this summer on a wonderful morning as I was biking across the Continental Avenue Bridge. Three young Hispanic women from South Oak Cliff and West Dallas taking a long The Trinity speed walk stopped me to ask questions about the bridge because River Corridor it was their first time on it. They were amazed and excited because “The Trinity Project is Project is the they saw a new side of their city that they had never seen before. We already transforming most complex and chatted for a while and said goodbye. We will probably never see amazing urban West Dallas. West Dallas each other again, but for a brief moment citizens from three different development effort parts of one of America’s largest cities came together and because of could easily become the undertaken by the City of the Trinity felt like we were neighbors in a small town. And that is the new Uptown Dallas. It is a flood control most important gift that this project and river can give us. over the next project at its heart with two decades.” magnificent transportation Jeff Morris, corridors, environmental The Trinity Trust management and unique Board Member recreation components.” Mike Rawlings Elizabeth Fernandez, Mayor of Dallas Director for Trinity Watershed Management

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