As conversations deepen on how to use Corpus Christi’s sales tax dollars, a new concept has emerged on how existing revenue funds could be used – a project downtown that would bring to life new miradors, greenery, parks and a pathway that would connect unused property adjacent to the bay waters.
Bill Durrill Jr., head of the nonprofit Devary Durrill Foundation, proposed to the City Council this week what he describes as a Sea Walk – a concept that would, in part, develop a pathway from the American Bank Center, curving up toward the ship channel.
What prompted the presentation was two-fold, Durrill told the council on Tuesday – the upcoming demolition of the existing Harbor Bridge couples with the pending opening of the new Harbor Bridge – as well as the lengthy dialogue among the council and within the community of a possible new direction for investment of sales tax dollars.
He’s not requesting funding, Durrill told the Caller-Times on Thursday – instead, the intention was to lay out an idea for the City Council to consider on how to use the already-collected revenue that has been brought in by sales taxes earmarked for the seawall and the American Bank Center’s arena.