For years, a little sign at the entrance of the children’s play area at Klyde Warren Park has outlawed high-heeled shoes. There’s a backstory. Shortly after...
11:16 AM on Nov 3, 2022 CDT
The widow of Ross Perot, the billionaire computer services magnate who ran for president twice in the 1990s as an independent and then a third-party candidate, insisted that the expanded playground be named for her longtime friends to rectify what she feels is a gross oversight. The children’s park redo is not part of the major park expansion announced before the pandemic that would extend the deck over Woodall Rodgers farther to the west.
The big kids’ side features a 35-foot climbing tower, buckets that drop water on people standing beneath it, a modern version of a New Age spinner and a kid-sized climbing wall that looks like mountains and clouds.Sheila Grant chats with a Mia Muñoz, 8, at the Sheila and Jody Grant Children’s Park at Klyde Warren Park in Dallas on Oct. 31.
Two years later, well before park construction began, Sheila Grant invited Margot Perot and a small contingent of friends to Texas Capital’s boardroom for a presentation by Dan Biederman, the urban-park maestro who brought Manhattan’s Bryant Park back to life with events and programming. “During some of the toughest and most disheartening days, Margot was right there with us helping us achieve impossible dreams with her moral support. She’s a great one to have in your foxhole,” Sheila said.
From left: Amy and Kelcy Warren, their son Klyde Warren, and Sheila and Jody Grant posed for a rare shot together at Klyde Warren Park's 10th anniversary party on Oct. 12. The children’s park was too small from the day it opened, and the Grants wanted money to make it bigger and better. That appealed to the 88-year-old Perot, who has four daughters, son Ross Jr., 16 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren either born or on the way.
“This is terrific. So modern. So appealing with the bright colors. The children were just dying to get in here,” she said. When the Grants were at the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, they saw an advertisement with mountains in the background. She instantly decided that should be the scene for the children’s climbing wall.“They’re going to be glad to see the end of me because we kept redoing the paint,” she said, pointing to the mountains’ three shades of green and the puffy white clouds that camouflage some of the climbing pegs. “We wanted the park to be cheerful and fun. Color is all about that.
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