Downtown Houston Park Could Be A Great Place

Mar 16, 2008
May 1, 2024
Discovery Green

(photo courtesy of R. Clayton McKee) Kids playing around "Mist Tree," a donated fountain at the new Discovery Green park.

The preview opening of Discovery Green, a 12-acre park across from the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, showed local residents that the previously underutilized green space could be a great place to spend time, bump into old friends and hang out with the family. The challenge will be to manage the park with the type of programming that will keep people wanting to come back.

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