Dallas: Kimble Park renamed Irene H. Trigg-Myers Prosperity Park

DALLAS — A public park in South Dallas could have a brand new identify. Community contributors collected for the legitimate ribbon slicing and renaming of Kimble Park to the Irene H. Trigg-Myers Prosperity Park.

“We’re getting a new park for our community,” Dallas City Councilman Adam Bazaldua cheerfully shouted prior to the group collected on the park’s determination.

Supporters described Irene H. Trigg-Myers as a girl whose existence was once devoted to group carrier and circle of relatives help. The park’s new namesake was once a fearless recommend for honest and sanitary housing prerequisites. 

Family and pals mentioned Trigg-Myers was once any individual who lobbied for reasonably priced housing and beautification as a member of the Board for the Dallas-Fort Worth Assisted Housing Management Association of North Texas. 

“I think that it really is an amazing opportunity to take a park that has been historically neglected and actually add some real significant changes,” mentioned Daniel Wood, VP of Dallas Park and Recreation Board of Trustees. 

With the park’s renaming, new facilities also are at the horizon. There are these days plans to increase Irene HG. Trigg-Myers Prosperity Park via one acre. Updates will come with strolling trails, new playground apparatus, extra benches, and senior-friendly facilities amongst different issues.

“This is certainly a momentous day,” mentioned Kirk Myers-Hill, founder and CEO of the nonprofit Abounding Prosperity. 

Myers-Hill is the son of Trigg-Myers. He’s proceeding his circle of relatives’s legacy of carrier via offering quite a few sources for prone citizens throughout Southern Dallas in the course of the nonprofit.  

“Communities like this one deserve inexperienced areas, very similar to Klyde Warren and the opposite parks,” mentioned Myers-Hill. 

National gospel-recording artists Tremaine Hawkins and Vanessa Bell Armstrong carried out all the way through the park determination tournament.

The imaginative and prescient for the park is a collective one. Myers-Hill mentioned an nameless donor has already dedicated $100,000 towards upgrades and facilities.

The Irene H. Trigg-Myers Prosperity Park, which is positioned at 2115 Warren Avenue, will have to be totally up to date over the following 18 to 24 months.