Frisco leaders announced plans on Tuesday to build a “next-level park.”
While Frisco is already home to the Dallas Cowboys training center, FC Dallas, and PGA headquarters, the City believes the park will complement those in boosting Frisco’s image.
“Kaleidoscope Park, previously referred to as Community Performance Park, is poised to become one of the most innovative, inclusive, and programmed public greenspaces in North Texas,” according to a news release from the Communities Foundation of Texas and the City of Frisco.
The park will feature free year-round public programming, including weekly films and concerts that “will reflect the diverse and unique character of North Texas.”
Planning to host free fitness and well-being activities, the foundation said the park would feature amenities including:
- performance pavilion
- children’s play area
- dog park
- gardens
- water features
- Wi-Fi-equipped technology terraces
- public art, including a permanent installation by world-renowned fabric artist, Janet Echelman
The City of Frisco owns the park, but all park operations, maintenance, and programming will be overseen by the Kaleidoscope Park Foundation, a nonprofit partner of Communities Foundation of Texas.
“I’m thrilled to share the official name for the park,” said Scott Stewart, executive director of the foundation. “Built into the name—Kaleidoscope Park—is the park’s core mission.”
He explained, “Just as the kaleidoscope we played with as kids brings together separate and distinct pieces to create a beautiful design, Kaleidoscope Park will thoughtfully engage the diverse and rapidly growing communities across North Texas.”
The project will be “a next-level park,” the director explained, “bringing communities together in a free, open, and accessible public space to enjoy, create, and inspire.”
One purpose of the park is to “promote arts and culture as a destination, as its own economy,” Stewart said. “That’s what this area of North Texas is missing,” he added.
Stewart left his job overseeing Chicago’s famous Millennium Park for the opportunity to manage the design of Kaleidoscope Park.
“Kaleidoscope Park will be a community park in the truest sense of the word,” Stewart said.
Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney added, “Our residents, even post-COVID, have been mandating or asking for more parks and open spaces, just places for them to gather.”
Stewart, emphasizing the goal of always having something happening at the park, said they plan to have events consistently “so people will know, ‘Hey, it’s Monday evening; it’s a North Texas concert night.”
He said they would know, “Tuesday is film night at Kaleidoscope Park” because the park will have “that regularity where it just becomes something people do,” he said.
The 5.7-acre Kaleidoscope Park will be located near the intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and Warren Parkway in Frisco. Neighboring attractions include The Star, Stonebriar Centre, The Shops at Legacy, and Granite Park.
Construction is underway with hopes of completion in late 2023.