50 Drummers at Wooldridge Kicks Off Fusebox

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Graham Reynolds’ Golden Arm Trio kicked off the weeklong Fusebox Festival with a performance of 50 drummers (and a few other instruments) at Wooldridge Square on a beautiful Thursday night.  This is the first in a series of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of Wooldridge Square as a park.  Over 200 people enjoyed the 45 minute performance.

Sparky Park Dedication

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Sparky Park officially has its unveiling on Sat – here’s the announcement.  The foundation was pleased to hold funds raised by the neighborhood group and disburse them as payment for a portion of the new wall – it’s simply amazing – you need to see it!

Statesman Article On Pease Park

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Today, Pam LeBlanc wrote a follow-up piece on Pease Park, an area where the Austin Parks Foundation as well as our Adopt-a-park group, Trees for Pease, have put in a lot of work in the past few years and especially, the past few months.  Among the new improvements are irrigation, 100 new trees, we also spread dillo dirt and mulch …

100 Trees for Pease!

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On Saturday, Feb 21, several hundred volunteers converged on Pease Park to plant the first 100 trees for Pease.  It took a village to get them purchased, placed, planted and irrigated!  We’d like to thank the following for all of their hard work: • Richard Craig, who formed Trees for Pease, raised the bulk of the funds (nearly $20,000 to …

College Forward & Natural Texas @ Shoal Creek – Thanks

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A big thank you to College Forward and their wonderful 50 plus volunteers who worked with the Austin Parks Foundation and Carl Brockman and his team from Natural Texas – who provided arborists with chainsaws, a big chipper and the wonderful forestry mower. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” …

Sparky Park Puts Up a Wall (and its great!)

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Sparky Park is a former Austin Energy substation that has been converted to a pocket park. The North University Neighborhood Association began work over three years ago to develop concepts for the makeover, which removed all of the towers and equipment, but left the really cool substation building (to be redone in a future phase).  Then several wireless phone companies …

Brush Square @ Cap Metro Station Update: 10/28/08

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Work continues to progress along 4th St, as well as portions of Trinity St for improvements to the south side of Brush Square. Sidewalks are being poured and finished, eight of the ten new Oak trees have been planted and crews are working to finish out the remaining sidewalks near the Hilton and installing street lights, a welcome addition to …

Palm Park – Thanks Texas Gas Service!

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Beginning back in April, Texas Gas Service (TGS) crews labored to remove an old, hazardous tennis court along with fencing at Palm Park, located at 3rd Sts and SB frontage of I-35 in downtown Austin.  They spread some soil we had delivered but it needed some more fill. Thanks to 10 truckloads of soil from the foundation’s Auction Oaks @ …