When thousands of fans jam the American Airlines Center at Victory Park, they probably don’t think about old power plants that have long since gone dim. Likewise, visitors who shop and dine at the park aren’t likely to ponder over the fate of long-forgotten landfills. The more than 100 Dallas elementary school students who descended on Victory Park for the 2007 Earth Day celebration on April 19 probably didn’t care about any of these historical footnotes either.

And that’s just fine with Richard Greene, who heads up the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Dallas. EPA worked with the state, City of Dallas, Hillwood Development Corporation, and Hicks Holding for more than a decade to transform Victory Park’s environmentally-challenged past into a thriving, green future.   ...

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