By Matt Payne
The Sycamore Park master plan will combine the former golf course and park, giving the city an opportunity to repurpose and plan with the help of the community.
Sycamore Park, known as one of the oldest parks in Fort Worth and spanning 94 acres, may soon have a fresh new look.
The City of Fort Worth will discuss future plans for Sycamore Park in a public meeting at 6 p.m. on Jan. 7. Planning for the park began after the golf course that occupied more than half of the park’s land was officially closed in September.
The master plan will combine the former golf course and park, giving the city an opportunity to repurpose and plan with the help of the community.
Jing Yang, landscape architect for the parks and recreation department, said the city hosted a public meeting to listen to ideas for future amenities.
“We cannot fulfill the wish of everybody, but we are building a park for the general public, so we try to maximize the funding we have available to build a park for the entire neighborhood and city,” Yang said.
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After providing the community with surveys and image boards, the department received hundreds of responses and feedback. Yang said the most popular requested amenities included trails, biking paths and an amphitheater.
After the department summarized the main amenities, they created a rough draft of the master plan and an outline of the development phases. Phase 1 includes basic reconstruction and building of roads, pathways and a playground- and the funding is already available.
“After we connect all the comments, we will come back and revise the master plan by the end of January,” Yang said.
Construction is set to begin in 2021, and the master plan will help prioritize the phases and ideas community members have for the park.
The rough draft for the master plan will be presented at the Jan. 7 meeting, which will take place at the Sycamore Community Center at 2525 E. Rosedale St. The meeting is open to the public and the community’s input is encouraged.
