{"id":443337,"date":"2026-02-01T19:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443337\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:13:10","slug":"texas-parks-and-wildlife-commission-awards-record-breaking-21-2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443337\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission awards record-breaking $21.2M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A record-breaking amount of Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission grants is set to beautify local parks throughout the Lone Star State.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission is <a href=\"https:\/\/tpwd.texas.gov\/newsmedia\/releases\/?req=20260129b\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">awarding $21.2 million in local park grants<\/a>, that 50 community parks statewide will benefit from \u2014 whether it be adding natural trails, kayak launches, piers or playgrounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These grants, which are allocated to local government entities, are reimbursed on a 50\/50 match basis. The grants are awarded in three categories \u2014- urban outdoor recreational grants for populations exceeding 500,000, non-urban outdoor recreation grants for municipalities under 500,000 and small community recreation grants for towns serving fewer than 20,000 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio and Fort Worth are receiving the larger end of grants, with each city receiving a $1.5 million grant. For the Alamo City, the urban outdoor recreation grant will aid improvements at Pearsall Park \u2014 enhancing it with a bike track, lighting, shade structures and construction of a track perimeter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city of New Braunfels received a non-urban outdoor grant exceeding $700,000 for a neighborhood park on Coll Street. The grant will allow for utilities, a pavilion, an accessible playground, shade, a drinking fountain, picnic tables \u2014 all on the backdrop of native trees and landscaping complete with irrigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the funding, the parks must remain maintained and open to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A record-breaking amount of Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission grants is set to beautify local parks throughout the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-443337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}