Honoring the past From the cover
2024-25 Colleyville Capital Improvement Program
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Planning for the park started in January 2023 with the creation of a Heroes Park design com- mittee, which included citizen appointees with different military backgrounds or experiences with similar projects, Lindamood said. The fiscal year 2024-25 capital improvement program allocated $7 million for Heroes Park, according to city documents. The design was done by Freese & Nichols, the company that designed the George W. Bush Presidential Library, city documents state. The committee members toured similar veter- ans parks in Keller and Irving. “I’ve never lived in a community where I felt so involved,” said committee member Pam Savoie, whose son Jacob died in military combat in 2017. “Being invited and having my family’s history and my son’s history honored and respected by my community … I mean, it’s priceless.”
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Heroes Park will feature memorial walls to honor soldiers from World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and modern wars since 1990, according to city documents. Each conflict will have a Colleyville connection to the military action. “I think the conflict wall is interesting for the younger people in our community,” said committee member Louis Miller, a 51-year Colleyville resident. “A lot of people don’t know about those conflicts; they weren’t even around them. I think recognizing the past as well as the near present is very important.” There will be an eternal flame located near the flagpole, according to the design. The city spent $272,800 on bronze sculptures for the park that will represent each branch of the military, which was part of the fiscal year 2023-24 budget.
$7M of the CIP's 2024-25 parks budget is allocated for Heroes Park.
Facilities Wastewater Sidewalks and trails Other Drainage IT
$6.2M
$11.1M
Total: $33.1M
$4.7M
NOTE: NUMBERS MAY NOT EQUAL 100% DUE TO ROUNDING
$2.3M
$1M
$1.6M
SOURCE: CITY OF COLLEYVILLE/ COMMUNITY IMPACT
$1.2M
$2.8M
$2.1M
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