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Pioneer Plaza
Pioneer Plaza is a large public park located in the Convention Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). It contains a large sculpture and is a heavily visited tourist site. Adjacent to the plaza is the Pioneer Park Cemetery which features the Confederate War Memorial. Together, it is the largest public open space in the Dallas central business district.
==History==
The land on which the plaza sits, once railroad and warehouse property, was cleared for the -tall hotel and office Dallas Tower which was part of the failed Griffin Square development. The plaza and its accompanying sculpture were the idea of real estate developer Trammell Crow, who wanted an iconic "Western" sculpture in the city of Dallas and assembled a group to donate the sculptures. The $9 million project was begun in 1992 on of land donated by the City of Dallas; $4.8 million of the cost came from private funds raised from individuals and local businesses.〔http://www.texastreesfoundation.org/about.html Texas Trees Foundation, retrieved 01-11-10〕 Local artists sued to stop the project and claimed that it was historically inaccurate for the city, but the project opened on time in 1994〔http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/17/us/dallas-casts-new-image-in-bronze-as-a-cow-town.html?pagewanted=all New York Times, "Dallas Casts New Image, In Bronze, as a Cow Town", 01-17-94〕
Today the park is maintained by the adjacent Dallas Convention Center and is the second most visited tourist attraction in downtown Dallas. As a work in progress, an additional steer is occasionally added to the herd.〔http://www.texastreesfoundation.org/about.html Texas Trees Foundation, retrieved 01-11-10〕
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