Views of the neighborhood – Lakeway – Butler Rough Hollow Park Groundbreaking

~ John W. Howell

Today, we are attending the groundbreaking for the new Butler Rough Hollow Park in Lakeway.

The new park will include an amphitheater featuring limestone-block seating built into the hillside, facing a concrete stage area. Other features include a mountain bike course, bank-shot play court, multisport field, playground, ninja course, pavilion, restroom facilities, picnic tables, and benches.

A backstop and fence, baseball bases, portable benches, and portable soccer goals will be installed in the multisports field. The playground will include integrated shade, roller slides, swings, and multiple play levels for all ages. We are catered by Jefferys of Austin, and our entertainment is Spanky and Our Gang.

Menu

Veal medallions américaine – crawfish in sauce américaine fava beans, lardo & onion soubise
Roast guinea fowl – truffle mousseline, morel mushrooms, fiddlehead fern & buttered herb jus
Long Island Duck breast – sweet red California cherries, hakurei turnips, Moroccan spiced sauce
Alaskan halibut – spring ramp nage, beech mushrooms, caviar, crème fraîche
Red snapper â la barigoule – chorizo-encrusted snapper, poached fennel & spring vegetables
Roasted turnip – wood roasted turnip, kale furikake, carrot ginger-miso broth

16 oz Colorado rack of lamb, served with mint jelly
16 oz tomahawk pork chop, served with truffle butter

Picture of an old time school bus

Let’s go

The welcome tent.

Visitors to the event can take a sapling home.

Cookies and water.

The shovels are waiting for the official moment. The big guy on the right has the day off.

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Good attendance.

The gang of seven. From left, Parks and Recreation Director Andrea Bennett, City Manager Joseph Molis, City Council Member Kent O’ Brian, Mayor Tom Kilgore, Forester Richard Leon, Council member Wes Hook, Assistant Director Parks and Recreation Ricky Gavett.

The ground is broken.

The map of the finished park in the summer of 2027.

We have our red oak tree, and now it is time to relax with music and Food. I hope you have a great week.

 

 

 

69 thoughts on “Views of the neighborhood – Lakeway – Butler Rough Hollow Park Groundbreaking”

  7. I think this is a really momentous start to something the kids are apparently really looking forward to! Your community is a true community in every sense of the word!

    Love the 70’s outfits on Spanky and the Gang. Great song for a Sunday! Like To Get To Know You is another good one!

    And Alaskan halibut, please! There’s no other choice possible!

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  11. This looks amazing! I love that your community is creating such an inclusive third place. Ours doesn’t have very many and it’s a serious oversight. Also, I was rolling right along until I hit ninja course — is google right that it’s an obstacle course? What a great addition to the park!

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  12. What a wonderful event, John. I’m sorry, but my mind immediately drifted 59 years into the future and reading “The Top-10 Things Not to do If You’re Attending the Groundbreaking.” Does one of the people in the group of seven go by the nickname Tiny?

    I was going to have the healthy halibut but then I saw the 16 oz tomahawk pork chop. Pork chop for me, please.

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  13. John, that sounds like a super park facility you are building. I know you can’t wait to put your bike (the one you named pocket rocket) on that bike course. Send me a video and order me a cup of that fowl guinea🐳

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  26. That “big guy on the right” is gonna have his work cut out for him in the days ahead, John. Sounds like a great project that will be a blessing for the entire community upon completion.

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