Carrollton's newest community park opens its gates this Saturday, October 17, at 10 am, when Mayor Steve Babick, City Council members, and Lewisville ISD officials gather for a ribbon-cutting at Tor Hill Park, located at the corner of Plano Parkway and Warmington Drive. The $2.9 million project sits on 4.9 acres of school-district-owned land adjacent to Hebron High School.
According to the City of Carrollton
, the new park offers three acres of playground space, a concrete walking trail circling its five-acre perimeter, an event lawn, and open space for team and group activities. Parks & Recreation Director Jonathan Scheu and Lewisville ISD Superintendent Dr. Lori Rapp are both scheduled to give remarks alongside Mayor Babick at the ceremony, underscoring the inter-agency nature of the project.
A Dallas Firm's Design on School District Land
The park was designed by Dallas-based landscape architecture firm MESA Design Group on land owned by Lewisville ISD. The park occupies a previously undeveloped parcel adjacent to the high school campus. Per MESA's project materials, the park's parking infrastructure was intentionally built for dual use — supporting everyday park visitors year-round while also providing supplemental seasonal parking for school buses and vehicles tied to Hebron High School.
State filings tracked under Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation project number TABS2024006420 put the development's overall footprint at 91,700 square feet, with an estimated construction budget of $2.9 million. Those same filings, reviewed via Zaba List, break the land allocation down further: 58,000 square feet for parking, 27,000 square feet for sidewalks and trails, and 6,700 square feet set aside for playground facilities.
Built in Two Phases to Avoid Street Parking Headaches
Carrollton tackled the build in two distinct phases rather than all at once. As the Carrollton Community Voice reported, Phase 1 delivered a 130-space parking lot in July 2025, a deliberate move to get access infrastructure in place before neighborhood streets filled up with overflow parking once the park's destination features opened. Phase 2 then brought the playground, pavilion, and trail loop now ready for Saturday's opening.
The city's 2025 Parks Master Plan was published in May of that year. Tor Hill Park sits in Denton County on a 4.9-acre parcel owned by Lewisville ISD; Carrollton's footprint also stretches into Dallas and Collin counties.
Part of a Broader Wave of Park Investment
Tor Hill Park's debut follows closely behind another major Carrollton parks milestone. Just two months earlier, the city celebrated the completion of a $2.5 million overhaul at Woodlake Lake, funded through a voter-approved $22.4 million parks bond package, as Hoodline previously reported. That project added a lakeside pavilion and an ADA-accessible kayak launch, part of the same broader municipal push now bringing Tor Hill Park online.
Mayor Babick, who was sworn into his second term in May 2026 after winning 93.4% of the mayoral vote, will speak at Saturday's ceremony. Carrollton's park network already spans more than 30 city-operated parks along with greenbelt trails, natural preserves, and athletic facilities, according to the city's master plan, and Tor Hill Park becomes the latest addition to that growing system — one built not from scratch on city-owned land, but through a lease partnership with the school district next door.
