Main Street Garden Park, park in Dallas, United States

Main Street Garden Park is a 1.75-acre public park on the block bounded by St. Paul, Main, Harwood and Commerce streets in downtown Dallas. A rectangular lawn sits at its centre, edged by paved walkways and low black-edged planting beds, with rows of small trees and box-like shade structures along one side. The park also holds a café, splash fountain, playground, dog run and concert green.

The city block was cleared of its early commercial buildings and parking lots in 2007, and the park opened to the public in November 2009. It was funded mainly through Dallas bond programs and designed by a New York landscape architecture firm as the first of several planned downtown core parks.

The neon sign spelling "P-A-R-K" once hung on a parking garage on this block and was refurbished before being reinstalled in the park. In the northeast corner, a flower garden holds salvaged architectural materials from the commercial structures that stood here, with an interpretive sign explaining the block's history.

Pedestrian paths surround the main lawn, so walking around the whole site is easy and flat. The park sits among tall office buildings, which can make it busier around midday and quieter in early morning or late afternoon.

A shade structure in the park includes a light artwork called “SpectraScape” whose bands of color shift with sunrise, sunset and the changing seasons. Few visitors realize that the neon “P-A-R-K” sign is a reused piece from a former garage on the exact same block.