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In transforming Dix Park, it's mostly been "what ifs?" A vision should take form in 2018.

December 27, 2017

Article published by the News & Observer by David Menconi.

RALEIGH - Everybody in Raleigh has ideas about what Dorothea Dix Park should become. Just ask Kate Pearce, who hears them all.

“One suggestion was actually for a ‘Gaelic football field,’ ” said Pearce, a city of Raleigh senior planner who is working on the project. “Or fields for Ultimate Frisbee, a Frisbee golf course, things like that. The role of music, culture, art and recreation are the fun things everyone wants to talk about now. But we’re thinking broader, more long term.”

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