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  Built on historic rail lines that once connected Brownsville to the outside world, The Belden trail – directly behind Skinner Elementary legal publishing – will now serve to connect our community together. But getting to this point was not easy, driven by Commissioner Rose Gowen, an entire community came together to help bring this project to the citizens of Brownsville. How It Happened legal publishing by Commissioner Rose Gowen, M.D. (event speech)   Today we are here to formally announce the beginning of construction of the Belden Trail. Over the next few months our partners at the Community Development Corporation will be hard at work bringing to reality the trail that we, as a community, legal publishing developed. And when I say community, I truly mean it. This trail is the product of a collaborative effort that began with the Brownsville Community Improvement legal publishing Corporation, but has grown to include almost every department at the city, as well as the school district, the PUB, the CDCB, our wonderful design and community legal publishing engagement team, bcWorkshop, and of course the residents and business owners of West Brownsville, who diligently attended all those meetings to give us their input as to what was really needed in the community.   This trail is testament to what can happen when we all work together, legal publishing united, towards legal publishing a common goal. To give you a better idea let me take you back to humble beginnings legal publishing of this project. Initially, this project was only going to include some bollards along the perimeter of the West 3rd Street corridor. That was all the funding we had for. But the more we worked on this, the more we became aware of the need and the opportunity before us, and realized that a few bollards here and there were simply not going to cut it. We needed more. So we applied for a Texas Parks and Wildlife grant and after a couple of tries, we got it. Then we were fortunate legal publishing enough to find a partner in bcWorkshop and CDCB who offered to do the design for free. Those of us who have seen Maggie and Justin in action know that we really lucked out with that partnership. And as we started talking to the residents, and heard all your concerns legal publishing about safety and your high expectations legal publishing for this trail. We realized we still needed more funding, so in came the City’s Grants Department to the rescue for the second time, and helped us secure additional funding. Now, if you turn your programs around, we have enough to build this concrete trail, which will feature innovative crosswalks to help pedestrians safely move along the trail, lighting courtesy of PUB, shade giving trees and other native fauna, benches and shade structures, and of course the bollards along the perimeter with which we initially started this project. As an added bonus, when we showed our plans to the City’s B.Metro, they were so excited about it that they offered to use some of their federal grant funding to build new sidewalks legal publishing along the streets surrounding the trail and leading towards their bus stops located in this neighborhood. This will not only increase ADA accessibility but also help increase safety and mobility for West Brownsville residents. And this is only the beginning. The city is already developing a city wide master plan for a network of trails that will provide residents of all ages with more recreational opportunities. The success of our efforts to secure funding from state and federal sources for this project, i.e. not local tax monies, should encourage us to continue this same pattern of planning and collaboration. legal publishing We should all be very proud of what we will have accomplished with this project and know that we can still do more.
@UBbrownsville April 17, 2014
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