We have 53 people signed up for mulching at Zilker this Saturday, from 9 am to noon. Â We’ll meeting at the first parking lot on the right (enter the road where you go to park for the pool, but bear right (and up) and look for us (lots of tools and wheelbarrows) Â We need more volunteers and more wheelbarrows too …
$300,000 for Barton Springs Bypass Tunnel
Today at the 5th annual Council Cleans the Pool Day, Senator Kirk Watson, Mayor Lee Leffingwell and Robin Cravey, president of the Friends of Barton Springs Pool, announced the donation of $300,000 to the City of Austin for the forthcoming Barton Springs Pool Bypass Tunnel project. Â The project, one of the short term projects announced as part of the Barton …
Courtyard at Brush Square Progressing
Here’s some photos from the progress on the Art In Public Places courtyard project from Tuesday evening….
Work at Wooten Playground
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BMX / Skate Park Pre-Construction Photos
The long awaited BMX / Skate Park at the site of the Old Austin Recreation Center and tennis court is being prepared for construction activity. (ACC Rio Grande parking garage is on one side, Shoal Creek Trail across the street, and House Park and the Austin Recreation Center on the north side.) Here’s a few photos of signage and fencing …
We Need Help with Mulching at Zilker
As you may have heard in the news, the Parks Department has removed 50 dead trees in the Zilker Park Polo Fields Area. In efforts to make sure that the remaining 500 plus trees (mostly live oaks) in the area survive, the City is launching the Zilker Tree Rescue Project, which will bring arborists performing tree treatments.  The Austin Parks Foundation …
Come to the Rainey St. Pocket Park Workshop
The City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department are hosting a community workshop for the proposed enhancement of the pocket park right at Rainey Street and the Trail around Lady Bird Lake. Â Please join us!
AIPP/APF Project – the Courtyard at Brush Square
Work has begun by AIPP commissioned artists Hawkeye Glenn and Lizzie Martinez on “The Courtyard” which will be nice corner of Brush Square in downtown Austin to enjoy behind the newly restored Susanna Dickinson House. Hawkeye and crew were able to install the first “keystone” pieces of granite and will begin working across the site. Â He has cut and fit …
Advocate for Completing the Lady Bird Lake Trail!
There is some good news for Trail (@ Lady Bird Lake) users: Completing the Trail with the Riverside Boardwalk is now on the project list for the planned November 2010 bond election.  Please email the Task Force members now at ctf@austinstrategicmobility.com and let them know: It is time to Complete the Trail. The transportation bond package as a whole will reduce …
Help Mulch Zilker Hillside Theatre Trees on 7/6
Zoila of the Austin Heritage Tree Foundation is looking for 2-3 volunteers for Tue morning 7/6 to help apply compost and mulch to trees around the Zilker Hillside Theatre – contact Zoila at zvega@austin.rr.com to volunteer – thank you!