Austinist: Town Lake Park Opens Next Week

guest

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:36:35 -0600

Congratulations to the City and the designers of this park!!! Please keep the momentum but don't neglect existing parks. We need public places like these that bring people of all ages from all places to interact. I have enjoyed this park with my children and observed the elderly rejuvenate with the show of lights and sound of laughter. Thank you Austin for investing in public places, and I think it's up to us the citizens to invest in the art. This is a great canvas, and I am sure that with time other artists will use this park not only for inspiration but to display their work.

guest

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:59:45 -0600

Crown Fountain in Chicago is awesome and wonderful fun, esp for kids. And the Millennium Bean is, despite the culture commissioner's hatred of the unofficial name, one of those things that puts Chicago back on the cultural map. Draws herds of tourists *and* their dollars. Please come back, Art in Public Places.

guest

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:31:18 -0600

I agree to change the name back to Town Lake and then name the new park, Lady Bird Park.

Sudo

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:57:57 -0600

How about keeping a theme going in the area with Texas women. Since it's next to the Ann Richards Bridge and Lady Bird Lake, I would like to see it named after Barbara Jordan or Molly Ivans.

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:19:34 -0600

Can't wait, it would seem to be set up better to handle just hanging out for a day as opposed to Zilker. Either way, more parks is always a good thing. As for the name, I'm not a fan of naming everything after Lady Bird now. She has enough parks named after in this country already. Don't get me wrong, she's the reason for most of them, but still.

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:09:11 -0600

Lady Bird lake is just awkward. The double "La's" irk me. Town Lake is such a communal sounding name, why do want to take that away? Name the park after her, sure, but leave the lake alone.

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:36:23 -0600

"The artists selected for this park single handedly cost the city over 200k with their take it or leave it attitude. The stakeholders did a great job in their constant push for this park! Great job....to everyone that had a vision and worked as a team." Wait...what? link a source or *something* to let us in on wtf you're talking about.

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:45:02 -0600

The artists selected for this park single handedly cost the city over 200k with their take it or leave it attitude. The stakeholders did a great job in their constant push for this park! Great job....to everyone that had a vision and worked as a team.

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:34:03 -0600

How about we reverse the name to Town Lake and rename the park: Lady Bird Park. After all she did improve the parkland around the Lake and didn't build the dam herself.

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:31:42 -0600

How about changing the name back to Town Lake, and then name the new park Lady Bird Park.

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:19:55 -0600

Lady Bird Lake Park. Duh! ;p

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:12:49 -0600

I second "Condo View Park".

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:35:35 -0600

condo view park

mdahmus

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:23:44 -0600

LBJ park, for her husband. There could be a miniature version of the Vietnam wall. That would rock.

Scooby

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:15:58 -0600

How about "Town Lake Park" to pay tribute to the former name of the (soon-to-be) former cooling water reservoir for the (soon-to-be) former Holly St. Power Plant?

reynard

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:08:23 -0600

I really hope they put some more stupid guitars all over that park. If there's anything we need, it's more guitar sculptures. I second the motion for "Bill," why not? It's a recpectible enough name and it's not like there's not a bunch of other stuff named after that dead aristocrat. Although "Wild Lady Greens" has quite a ring to it.

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:05:48 -0600

Hell no! No SRV park either. How about the Randy Turner Memorial Park?

piltdownman

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:28:09 -0600

In the spirit of keeping Austin weird, I opt for... Leslie Park

heyzeus

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:55:37 -0600

I'd name it Bill. Bill the Park.

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:26:55 -0600

what?! they renamed town lake?? why was i not aware of this? well they should keep the park as town lake park, just to confuse tourists and/or people who move here in twenty years or so when everyone's forgotten that we once did have a town lake...

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:05:01 -0600

"LED-lighted fountain jets" that's some fun right there.