Fair Park Master Plan

Fair Park is a 135-year-old, 277-acre historic park situated just outside of downtown Dallas. It began as a fairground for the State Fair of Texas, a use that continues today. The Park has extensive accolades – the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition and the 1937 World’s Fair, one of the largest collections of Art Deco art and architecture in the world, and a National Historic Landmark on par with the Alamo.

Key recommendations for the master plan focus on resilience, regeneration and equity by creating new greenspaces on former parking lots, improving stormwater management onsite to manage 100-year rain events, planting of over 1500 new trees, increasing overall site biodiversity by creating new habitat areas, improving access to the park by creating gateway parks located outside of the barrier fence, providing more daily park activation focused on community programming, and provide living wage jobs/training.

The plan was informed by an inclusive engagement process to define a 20-year planning and implementation roadmap for the transformation of Fair Park into a premier park and a daily destination for the surrounding neighborhoods.