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 @ …
Brush Square – 4th St Work Continues
I must admit that I’m a little surprised at how much the construction of the new curbs, “great streets” sidewalk and tree area is taking out a chunk of Brush Square along 4th St. Cap Metro’s contractor assures us that everything will look better and we’ll end up with a better park. Unfortunately, due to a host of irrigation issues …
Shoal Creek and Pease a Little Less Invasive
Between Friday Oct 17 and Sat Oct 18, we had over 60 volunteers come out and help us cut down and peel back a lot of chinaberry trees as well as numerous vines, weeds and other items along a stretch of the Shoal Creek Greenbelt and Pease Park, from roughly Kingsbury St where the hike and bike bridge crosses the …
Have You Seen Me? Eastwoods Park Eeyore Stolen!
Please contact Austin Parks Foundation at apf@austinparks.org or 477-1566 with any information regarding the theft of this one-of-a-kind statue from Eastwoods Park. The neighborhood, who raised all of the funds to get the statue cast and installed really wants to get it back to the site of the original Eeyore’s Birthday.
REI Shoal Creek Clean-up
Thanks to Courtney and Beth – Outreach Coordinators at REI for hosting another clean-up on lower Shoal Creek (roughly from 12th to Town Lake Trail) Lots of stuff, but enviro-girl was out there sporting a green wig and a purple cape. Â Lots of bags of trash as the picture shows and thanks to REI and their volunteers for continuing to …
Tree Planting at Shipe Park
Thanks to Austin Energy, we’re getting some trees planted in two parks as mitigation for Austin Energy projects that resulted in removal of trees close-by. One is Shipe Park, the other is Pease Park. The trees at Shipe have all been planted and here’s a picture of the crew, plus volunteer Jack Nokes and dog Petey. Our thanks to APF …
Pease Demo Plots – Statesman Article
In the Saturday October 20th edition of the Austin American Statesman, you can read about our Pease Park Demonstration Restoration project. Click here to read the article and check out the pictures.
West Austin Park Amazing
I stopped by West Austin Park last weekend. There’s a renegade garden growing by the kiddie pool with beautiful flowers and ripening cherry tomatoes. What a nice gift to the neighborhood! (I probably shouldn’t say that if it is really renegade… let’s pretend I didn’t.) The main attraction, for me, though, was checking out the newly terraced off-leash area. West …