From the Fair Park Comprehensive Development Plan, dated October 2003"Provide year-round midway features: ferris wheel, carousel, roller coaster, sky ride and observation tower." So says Page 22 of 2003's Fair Park Comprehensive Plan, which offered myriad suggestions for turning Fair Park into a year-round attraction rather than the ghost town it becomes during those 49 or so weeks out of the year when the State Fair of Texas doesn't fill the fairgrounds. It's been a document often referenced by
City of DallasTurns out, Errol McKoy didn't wake up Monday morning with any intention of announcing plans to turn Fair Park into a year-round destination complete with towering rides and rollering coasters. Matter of fact, he says he expected -- still does -- to hold "a massive press conference" in, oh, 18 months or so, during which he'll lay out the grand plan, which will include everything from a Dallas Summer Musicals-produced show to 26 rides permanently planted in the Midway. Alas, the pres
Something like this Rough Brothers-designed greenhouse is what the State Fair of Texas has in mind.​Earlier this afternoon, I noticed on the Landmark Committee's Fair Park Task Force meeting agenda for Wednesday a most intriguing note: Someone has applied for a Certificate of Appropriateness to build a "7,600 square foot Greenhouse and 6,000 square foot growing area" in the Midway at Fair Park. And by someone, I mean Errol McKoy, president of the State Fair of Texas.Took a little bit of diggin
View Larger MapThose Landmark Commission meeting agendas are full of interesting hints -- like, oh, that green house the State Fair of Texas wants to build in Fair Park. Or, now, this vague note concerning the installation of 21 wind turbines on the rooftop of 801 Main Street. We should have more about that proposed Fair Park palace later today, but Unfair Park did a little digging this morning and found out that El Centro College wants to put those turbines atop the old Sanger-Harris building a
This, per the State Fair's plans sent to Landmark last week, is more or less what the green house will look like. And where it'll go. Sorry for the quality; best we could do with what we got.​Finally spoke with Errol McKoy about that green house he's wanting to plant at Fair Park; our Q&A follows. But, first, a few eyebrow-raisers: The State Fair of Texas prez wants this sucker up within the next 120 days -- hence, its introduction to the Landmark Commission on Wednesday, less than a week
