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BY SHAWN ARRAJJ & MELISSA ENAJE
Houston unveils new Love Park upgrades O cials with the city of Houston hosted a ribbon cutting Oct. 24 for $1.1 million in improve- ments to Love Park in the Heights. The big picture Love Park, located at 1000 W. 12th St., Houston, was one of 22 parks targeted for improvements in the Houston Park Board’s 50/50 Park Partners ini- tiative, which seeks to make improvements to city parks with an emphasis on seeking partnership funding and incorporating community feedback. The city of Houston has put more than $14 million into the program in total. The Love Park improvements were funded in part by a $250,000 contribution from ExxonMobil. The details Improvements at Love Park included: • New playground equipment for ages 5-12
Houston land trust gets $5M donation Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has made a $5 million donation to the Houston Community Land Trust, a “transformative” gift that o cials said will help fund new pilot programs in the city. The overview Pilot programs will focus outside of the traditional single-family home model, including testing new options for multi- family a ordable rentals and commercial spaces, o cials said. Founded in 2018, the HCLT works to provide assistance to prospective homeown- ers who make under 80% of the area median income level, including by limiting monthly mortgage payments to less than $1,050. The trust has helped 182 individuals and families secure permanent housing.
Harris County o cials plan to revitalize NRG Park Plans to revitalize the home of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Houston Texans are moving forward after Harris County commissioners voted unanimously Oct. 10 to task county o cials with redeveloping the NRG Park complex and surrounding region. 90 NRG Center NRG Park Houston Astrodome NRG Stadium
Harris Center opens mobile wellness clinic A new community health care initiative is taking place with the launch of a mobile wellness clinic in September. The mobile clinic will address the full wellness needs of each patient, including physical, mental and behavioral health. The details O cials with The Harris Center said that while the mobile wellness clinic will initially partner with community centers for events in precincts 1 and 2, it won’t be limited to just those two areas. “We’ll look at what they’re currently doing with their activities because they’re already connected to the community, and then we add the mobile wellness vehicles to go to these events,” Director Stanley Williams said.
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The Harris County Sports and Convention Cor- poration will develop at least two alternative plans to re-envision NRG Park, which is a 350-acre sports and entertainment complex owned by the county that hosts more than 5.5 million people annually. Digging deeper HCSCC Chair James Dixon II said the organi- zation will work collaboratively with input from tenants, the rodeo and the Texans, and ensure the greatest bene t for all key stakeholders, such as county residents, and Houston’s diverse residen- tial and business communities. “If we are really methodical and strategic and collaborative and work with pure intent, we can all
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• A new exercise station • Consolidating the picnic area to increase open green space • Regrading and smoothing the surface of the large multiuse eld • Resurfacing and replacing the walking trail • Five new LED lights throughout the park • A new detention area and drainage swales, which are open channels that collect water from hard surfaces to reduce runo • New benches, picnic tables and trash cans
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end up with something out there that becomes a legacy project for our future,” Dixon said. Ideas discussed for the project included adding more green space, replacing parts of the parking lot with economic mixed-use areas, and looking to potential developments in the surrounding area, Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis said.
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