DALLAS — This story was originally published by our content partners at the Dallas Business Journal.

A long-promised park that seeks to make Dallas' green space a central part of the city's social fabric is making the leap from the drawing board to reality.

Harold Simmons Park, now taking shape along the Trinity River, will be the biggest project of its kind in Dallas. The effort is led by the Trinity Park Conservancy, which points to visible progress on the ambitious, $325 million project emerging above the managed levees and pump stations of the river, between the iconic Margaret McDermott Bridge and the Ronald Kirk Bridge. Construction crews have finished clearing 22 acres for the the first phase, called the West Overlook, and recently began preliminary site work. Groundbreaking oc

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