Brays is the first Bayou Greenway the Houston
Parks Board developed in close partnership with
the Brays Bayou Association, East End Management
District, City of Houston, Harris County Flood
Control District, and Trust for Public Land. Our
work on acquiring and connecting green spaces
along Brays Bayou prompted the renewed vision of
making all of our major bayous an interconnected
system of parks and trails. Thanks to gifts from
The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston Endowment
Inc., the Wortham Foundation, Inc., and a Coastal
Estuarine Land Conservation grant, we have completed
land acquisition, a trailhead and trail construction
from Broadway Avenue to the railroad bridge
at Mason Park. We have also completed additional
land acquisitions to extend the greenway to Old
Spanish Trail at Wheeler. Thanks to a Transportation
Enhancement matching grant of $1.9 million from
Texas Department of Transportation, we will now
build the trails from Mason Park to Old Spanish Trail
just beyond Gragg Park.
 
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