Kourtny Garrett, new president of Downtown Dallas Inc. poses in her office on Friday, April 1, 2016. One of her chief missions is to further transform the central business district into an area with several transportation options. (David Woo/The Dallas Morning News) On a chilly April morning, Kourtny Garrett walked through downtown’s Stone Street Gardens, a brick-lined pedestrian plaza nestled between a row of restaurants and a gated lawn that’s home to a 30-foot-tall eyeball sculpture. “These little pockets,” she said of the block-long sidewalk, “there’s a network of them that can take you from the Arts District to City Hall.” Few people know how to move around the city’s urban core on foot better than Garrett. The 38-year-old Farmers Market resident last month was named president of economic development group Downtown Dallas Inc. after years working her way up its organizational chart. Next year, she will add CEO to her title at the end of a transition period between her and outgoing DDI leader John Crawford. A large part of the job ahead will involve making a litany of changes, big and small, to a sea of infrastructure that was configured largely to make sure commuters could quickly drive in and out of the central business district at the beginning and end of each day. That planning approach saddled large swaths of downtown without adequate sidewalks and left it pockmarked with large parking lots and garages
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