Fancy update on fountain across from Dallas Morning News gets big writeup in Dallas Morning News

by PegNews wire

DALLAS — You know that fountain that's in downtown Dallas? No, not the real nice one at Fountain Place -- the fountain in Ferris Plaza. Ferris Plaza being the city block positioned between the Dallas Morning News and the adjacent Belo office building. If you are an executive at the Dallas Morning News, it's what you see if you look out your window.

Anyway, there's a circular pool-with-fountain thing there that's been under "reconstruction" there for at least 10 years. It's always being updated and fussed with and improved upon, and for some reason, almost never gets done right, or at least to the satisfaction of Belo execs (keeping in mind that it's a public/city park, which means that public funds are being used to fix it).

Its latest update is some kind of computerized gizmo, breathlessly detailed by the Dallas Morning News. This sentence is good: "Using a computerized touch pad (whoooo), city parks crews now can easily set the fountain to perform for maximum crowd appeal during key commuter hours." So they're only going to run this thing between 8:30 and 9 a.m. and 5 to 6 p.m., nice.

And this is interesting: "More important, circulation pumps and filters can be adjusted to operate as often and efficiently as necessary, a real consideration for the shallow pool and fountain that serve some, at least, as an urban watering hole." -- i.e. the homeless guys that are usually hanging around.

Posted by T.G.

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