Best Revitalization of a Park

Republic Square

For years this square sat unused, unloved, and in the shadow of various construction behemoths. Then the Austin Parks Foundation partnered with the Parks and Recreation Foundation and Downtown Austin Alliance, and the next thing you know, yoga enthusiasts are welcoming a new day with postures in the park in the a.m., and Elvis impersonators are competing before hundreds of moviegoers camped out to see a screening of Viva Las Vegas. Maybe it isn't exactly what the city founders had in mind when they set aside the area for a park in 1839, but that's what we call revitalization, baby.

Republic Square
422 Guadalupe, 512/381-1147
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