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The man with the plan for parks
New chief:
Delay was
disappointin
DPD's David Brown tells LGBT
group that community should have
been notified of May 15 hate crime
immediately, asks for input on
improving communication
JOHN WRIGHT I Online Editor
wright@dallasvoice.com
Making his first appearance before an LGBT
group, new Dallas Police Chief David Brown said
he was "disappointed" in the department's delay
in classifying a recent
aggravated robbery
in Oak Lawn as an
anti-gay hate crime.
Brown spoke Tues-
day May 25, during
the regular monthly
meeting of Dallas'
LGBT LULAC chap-
ter, at Havana on
■ j Cedar Springs Road.
# The appearance
II \f came just a few
blocks from where —
SEE MORE | Video of and 10 days after —
Brown's remarks is at two clubgoers were
http://tinyuri.com/29wc76k. brutally attacked by
four suspects yelling
gay slurs and wielding baseball bats in the 2700
block of Throckmorton Street.
The incident occurred in the early morning
hours of Saturday, May 15. And DPD has been
criticized for failing to classify it as an anti-gay
hate crime — or notify the public about it—until
■ BROWN, Page 13
From Friends of Fair Park to Trinity
Commons Foundation, former
Councilman Craig Floleomb has big
visions, goals for Dallas' city parks
DAVID TAFFFT I Staff Writer
taffet@dallasvoice.com
Workers this week began assembling the arch
on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge that extends
Woodall Rodgers Freeway over the Trinity River.
The bridge is the first step in the Trinity River de-
velopment.
Perhaps no one in the city of Dallas has had
more to do with park development—including
the Trinity River Project — in recent years than
former Dallas City Councilman Craig Holcomb.
Holcomb founded the Trinity Commons
Foundation and serves as its president. And a
project intended to turn thousands of acres of for-
est into land for public use is a natural for Hol-
comb, who has also been the executive director
of Friends of Fair Park since 1990.
His group is credited with putting together
more than $200 million that helped fund a vari-
ety of projects. Under his leadership, Friends of
Fair Park has helped coordinate money from var-
ious sources that helped fund the African Amer-
ican Museum, The Women's Museum and the
tMAX Theatre in Fair Park.
Four other buildings have undergone major
restoration and 17 frescoes that had been painted
oyer after the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition
have been restored with money Friends of Fair
Park put together.
Holcomb's interest in the city's parks began
during his tenure on the City Council. He repre-
sented East Dallas and Oak Lawn — approxi-
mately the district now served by Angela Hunt
— from 1983 to 1989.
When he was first elected, Holcomb was mar-
ried to a woman. By the time he left office, he was
already living with his partner, Hector Garcia.
Even before he came out, Holcomb was
■ HOLCOMB, Page 14
SHINING ACHIEVEMENT |
'The Contralto,' a re-creation
of a statue erected in Fair
Park for the 1936 Texas Cen-
tennial Exposition, shines in
the sun over the head of
Friends of Fair Park Executive
Director Craig Holcomb.
(David TaffeVDallas Voice)
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Nash, Tammye. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, June 4, 2010, newspaper, June 4, 2010; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth239119/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.