An Eden For the Urbane

Main Street Garden grows in Downtown

Lauren Michaels
Posted:
December 09, 2009

At every city’s center lies a pretty patch of greenery — and finally, downtown Dallas has grown a mini Central Park of its own. It’s called Main Street Garden, and we can’t wait for the new bit of life to take root between the skyscrapers and concrete. Bound by Commerce, Main, Harwood and St. Paul streets, the park’s 1.7 acres of trees, lush lawns and granite walkways were artfully tended by the New York landscape architecture firm Thomas Balsley Associates (the urban-styling brains behind the flora at Martha Stewart’s East Hampton hideaway and the roof garden atop Trump Tower). Just steps from Neiman Marcus’ downtown flagship, and with its own plein-air organic cafe helmed by chef Doug Brown and an installation of digital art, Main Street Garden is primed to become the stomping grounds for a very stylish, latte-sipping, lawn-loving crowd. Information mainstreetgarden.org. 

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