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Maverick Park makeover, which includes new dog park on Broadway, nears completion

January 6, 2021 By Rocky Garza Jr. 3 Comments

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The renovation of Maverick Park, 1000 Broadway, is expected to be completed in early spring 2021. Photos by Ben Olivo | Heron

The $640,000 renovation of Maverick Park, 1000 Broadway, is expected to be completed this spring.

The project will add a large dog park to the Broadway corridor, with areas for small and large pups. The dog park alone will take up about a third of Maverick Park’s three acres, and include areas for agility training, disc and ball throwing, climbing and showering.

The updated park, which has been under construction since June 2020, will also includes a bioswale—a winding trench that filters out pollutants, like pet waste and trash, from rainwater before it flows into a water source—added picnic tables, drinking fountains, trash and recycle bins, more trees, new lighting and a Portland Loo stand-alone restroom.

In 2014, Joe Alderete III, a San Antonio firefighter who once lived near the park, and Ashley Riley, former employee of AREA Real Estate, whose office is down the street, began raising money for the project.

Alderete and Riley thought the park could offer better amenities for the community’s dogs and dog owners, and began collaborating with the San Antonio Parks Foundation to lead the charge toward a doggy park makeover at Maverick.

Larry Clark, co-founder of Bender Wells Design, the firm redesigning Maverick Park, said the park may take longer to open than expected because of “the colder conditions San Antonio has been experiencing, the grass hasn’t been able to sustain growth. The grass is not suitable for dogs to walk on and their feet can cause erosion.”

Alderete and Riley recruited neighboring apartment building owners, Graham Weston’s 80/20 Foundation, and other community members and organizations to raise more than $250,000 for the project. In terms of public dollars, the 2017-2022 bond program funded the rest of the project, as did the Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone.

Rocky Garza Jr. is a freelance journalist in San Antonio. Follow him at @r0ckssss_ on Twitter


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Filed Under: Broadway, Parks & Plazas, River North Tagged With: 80/20 Foundation, Ashley Riley, Bender Wells Design, Broadway, Graham Weston, Joe Alderete III, Larry Clark, Maverick Park, San Antonio Parks Foundation

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  1. Ben D. says

    January 7, 2021 at 11:56 am

    Great article, looking forward to read more!

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  2. Daniel says

    January 8, 2021 at 8:44 pm

    Will be a nice place for the bums to sleep.

    Reply

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  1. People now living at The Flats at River North on Broadway - San Antonio Heron says:
    June 12, 2021 at 10:54 am

    […] The mammoth building consumes 2.7 acres—a full city block bound by Broadway, Jones Avenue, Avenue E and 10th Street—along the budding Broadway corridor, and a quarter-block south from the Museum Reach segment of the River Walk. It’s also across the street from Maverick Park, which a large part of which was recently renovated to include a dog park. […]

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