First people doubted if anyone would go to a park on the bayou. Then some questioned if...
The Kinder Foundation has announced a $100 million catalyst gift to the Buffalo Bayou East parks plan, fast-tracking a massive bayou-front parks plan for the East End and Fifth Ward. This artist rendering shows how they'd transform the nearly depleted Japhet Creek into a park.
The many users and admirers of the existing Buffalo Bayou Park should not expect a carbon copy east of downtown. The adjoining neighborhoods have different populations with different cultures, and the eastern improvements aim to reflect that, based on input gathered from area residents during planning. “We’re not picking up Buffalo Bayou Park and plopping it over in the East End,” Anne Olson, the president of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, told me.
That this project has been given such priority shows a recognition of the risk that emerges when high-quality public spaces are developed in low-income neighborhoods. The concern is that these projects will make the neighborhoods more desirable, raise property values and hence raise taxes, pushing out people who can’t afford the higher levies. It seems absurd to argue that high-quality parks should be withheld from neighborhoods that need them, yet the concern is not without foundation.
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