Session Title: (429) Transforming a Shopping Center Into an Urban Park and Recreation Center
Session Type: Education Session Talk
Topic(s): Planning and Design , Operations and Maintenance
Day/Time: Thursday - Block 9
10/12/2023 02:00 PM (Central Time (US & Canada)) - 10/12/2023 03:00 PM (Central Time (US & Canada))
Room: Room D172
Audience Experience Level: Any level
Audience Familiarity with DEI: Any Level
CEU: 0.1
Description:
This session will explore how the City of Dallas is transforming a formerly high-crime shopping center and the corner of Forest/Audelia into an urban park and recreation center that will become the hub of a neighborhood that currently has no public amenities. The session will focus on the creation of an urban park out of a parking lot and a recreation center out of a renovated shopping center building that used to house numerous different tenants.
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will learn about the public process involved in converting a shopping center into a public amenity in a neighborhood that speaks more than 20 languages.
2. Attendees will learn about the types of amenities that lend themselves to being placed into an urban park in a former parking lot.
3. Attendees will learn how projects like this are able to transform neighborhoods.
Speaker(s):
Ryan O'Connor
Jared White
David Mills
Chris Turner-Noteware
Transforming a Shopping Center Into an Urban Park and Recreation Center
Category
Education Session
Description
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One-hour education sessions (0.1 CEU) will be delivered as either Talks, Sandboxes, or Clinics.
Clinics and Sandboxes will be smaller sessions and on a first-come, first-serve basis, so make sure to arrive early!
- Talks will be delivered as lectures or panel sessions.
- Clinics will focus on applying concepts to real-life examples through workshop activities.
- Sandboxes are a great networking opportunity that invite participants to talk shop, compare notes and swap advice around hot topics in the field.
Twenty of the one-hour education sessions will be available on-demand through the conference app while also delivered in person.
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