For decades, a sprawling stretch of land in Houston’s Sunnyside neighborhood sat fenced off and forgotten, overgrown with weeds and largely invisible to the city’s parks planning.
That same property is now open to the public as Hill at Sims, a 100-acre urban greenspace representing the largest parks investment the historically underserved neighborhood has seen in nearly 50 years.
The $30 million project, a public-private partnership that took years of advocacy and more than 20 public meetings with input from over 700 residents to realize, transforms what was once a stormwater detention basin into one of Houston’s most distinctive new parks…