{"id":424237,"date":"2026-09-02T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424237\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:14:09","slug":"richardson-begins-building-demolition-to-clear-way-for-dog-park-by-animal-shelter-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424237\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson begins building demolition to clear way for dog park by animal shelter | Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demolition began on a building next to the Richardson Animal Shelter earlier this week to make way for a new dog park, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/richardsontoday.com\/demolition-of-building-adjacent-to-animal-shelter-to-begin-next-week-some-shelter-parking-may-be-affected\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a> from the city.<\/p>\n<p>The gist<\/p>\n<p>Demolition was scheduled to begin Aug. 31 on the former Family Medical Building, located next to the Richardson Animal Shelter. The demolition is expected to take two to three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, a construction fence was set to be installed around the site and some shelter parking spaces may be unavailable during the demolition work.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead<\/p>\n<p>After the demolition is complete, part of the site will be converted into a new three-section dog park, per the city\u2019s release, which will include multiple areas for public use. The rest of the site will be used by the city\u2019s nearby Service Center.<\/p>\n<p>The dog park addition follows renovations at Richardson Animal Shelter that added a new main entrance, entry facade, storage rooms and expanded staff office. The renovated shelter <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/richardson\/government\/richardson-animal-shelter-reopens-following-renovations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reopened<\/a> in late 2025 following almost two years of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demolition began on a building next to the Richardson Animal Shelter earlier this week to make way for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10123,1494,14339,110,82787,245,160,162,161,959,100660],"class_list":["post-424237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-animal-shelter","tag-construction","tag-demolition","tag-development","tag-dog-park","tag-pets","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-richardson","tag-service-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}