Posted Jun 13, 2011, 7:43 AM
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http://www.statesman.com/business/ho...inglePage=true
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Houston's downtown park success a model for new Waller Creek vision in Austin
By Shonda Novak
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 10:37 p.m. Sunday, June 12, 2011
Published: 8:44 p.m. Sunday, June 12, 2011
HOUSTON — It seems an oxymoron: downtown Houston and green space. Yet in just three years, a partnership between the city and a nonprofit conservancy turned an underdeveloped area on the eastern edge of downtown Houston into a vibrant 12-acre urban park.
How Houston created Discovery Green park is a template for how a newly formed Austin conservancy hopes to transform land along downtown's neglected Waller Creek, as it winds from 15th Street to Lady Bird Lake.
By April, its third birthday, the $125 million Houston park had drawn more than 3 million visitors and hosted more than 800 events, most of them free .
The city's first major downtown park also has helped attract $500 million in nearby private development.
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