{"id":161847,"date":"2026-02-12T17:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161847\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:31:11","slug":"league-city-sells-txdot-more-land-for-3-7m-for-grand-parkway-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161847\/","title":{"rendered":"League City sells TxDOT more land for $3.7M for Grand Parkway project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJust weeks after League City sold a <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/bay-area\/government\/2026\/01\/15\/grand-parkway-project-in-league-city-moves-forward-with-new-land-acquisition\/\u00a0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parcel of land<\/a> to the Texas Department of Transportation for the Grand Parkway project, city officials have approved the sale of another parcel of land for $3.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>League City City Council voted unanimously to sell 15.8 acres of land currently owned by the League City Patrons of the Park Foundation to TxDOT at its <a href=\"https:\/\/leaguecity.legistar.com\/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1359305&amp;GUID=B5F7B84D-5059-4B0F-A452-F221735C3F99&amp;Search=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feb. 12 meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The sale is accompanied by an agreement that includes terms outlining the state\u2019s obligation to preserve city drainage and acknowledge the future development of Pat Hallisey Park, according to city documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The backstory<\/p>\n<p>Conceptualized in the early 1960s, the Grand Parkway is a proposed 180-mile circumferential highway that travels around the Greater Houston metro, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/bay-area\/transportation\/2025\/12\/16\/grand-parkway-makes-its-way-toward-league-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous reporting<\/a> by Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion project will extend the highway 14 miles from FM 646 in League City to south of FM 2403 in Alvin, TxDOT documents show.<\/p>\n<p>The project, titled \u201cSection B-1,\u201d is slated to start construction in 2027, according to previous reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just weeks after League City sold a parcel of land to the Texas Department of Transportation for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66262,66260,66261],"class_list":["post-161847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-league-city-development","tag-league-city-grand-parkway","tag-league-city-now-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}