Friends of Living Plaza

09/21/2015

It's been a while since we hosted an event on the plaza (...2 years to be exact) but we keep hearing rumblings of more food truck lunches, and major permanent changes coming! This article is from a few months ago, but the conversations continue. Fingers crossed it's ultimately as cool as we've imagined!

A few weeks ago we caught wind of an ambitious plan that would reshape the currently inhospitable Dallas City Hall Plaza, a proposed private-public partnership between 1500 Marilla and Turkish…

03/09/2015

It's that time of year again.... If you're dying to see more food trucks and activities on the plaza, shoot us a message!

02/11/2014

Perfect or our plaza! Food, even info & souvenir swag for tourists, move them around when we have big events, lock it down when it's closed, store our tables & chairs in them!

Who needs a food truck when you can have a portable prefabricated kiosk with a folded aluminium shell that opens-closes like a paper fan?

01/22/2014

This just in! The quote to fix the electrical panel on the plaza out by the grove of trees. We had to split wires to get power for our Jazz in July concert. For $18,300 ANYONE could host a concert on the circular stairs stage! Got fundraising ideas? We'd love to hear!

09/09/2013

#4352 things Plazas are good for:
Business meetings - as demonstrated here by Secretary of State John Kerry, meeting in Paris with other U.S. diplomats at Tuileries Gardens

08/29/2013

It's official! We're getting a bright pink pop art arrow sculpture on the plaza, pointing out the amazing Henry Moore sculpture we have here. Somehow it's like an enormous (yet somehow hidden) gem. Thx Nasher Sculpture Center - Happy 10th!!!

08/26/2013

Augst 19-23, 2013 Corgan Assoc, Architecture for Humanity, Measured Improvements and Haggar had their temporary shade structures on display on the plaza. Events during the week of shade included lunch events and a Friday evening concert.

08/24/2013

Inner City All Stars getting all set up!

08/23/2013

Imagine: Your dinner here. Tonight. 5:30... Evening concert at 7:30.... Watching the sun set over downtown at 8:45...
BYO picnic or Nammi truck. Shade provided by oak trees at City Hall Plaza, Corgan Assoc, Architecture for Humanity, Measured Improvements & Haggar Clothing

08/22/2013

Beautiful day on the plaza today....We even flew kites! (Oddly, there hasn't been much wind this week.) One more day of SHADE....We're looking forward to tomorrow's evening concert!

08/22/2013

Nammi Truck is on the Plaza already - they'll be serving y'all the best lunch ever come 11:30am.

08/21/2013

We're all set up for the day! Come by for lunch - YellowBelly & Cool Haus are coming!