The announcement that Raleigh’s premier urban park, Dorothea Dix, will become home to five giant troll sculptures is being marketed as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity.”
Let’s be clear. It is nothing of the sort.
It is, at best, a whimsical roadside attraction. At worst, it is an embarrassing distraction from the very principles that the Dix Park master plan sets forth for building a world-class urban park…