Love parks, music, and building community? 💚 We're looking for you! ✨ Join the team at Waterloo Greenway Conservancy and help create unforgettable experiences with us. We're hiring for full-time and part-time roles! 🌿 Interested? Learn more and apply at https://lnkd.in/edFeGtT
Waterloo Greenway
Civic and Social Organizations
Austin, Texas 2,309 followers
Waterloo Greenway is a 1.5-mile park system with the power to bring the entire Austin community together.
About us
The Waterloo Greenway Conservancy is a non-profit organization whose mission is to create and maintain an extraordinary urban park system and a restored Waller Creek, in partnership with the City of Austin, for the benefit of all. The Conservancy renews the natural environment, promotes play, health and wellness, economic vitality and mobility, and engages the community through outreach, education, cultural events, and the arts. Waller Creek Conservancy, in partnership with the City of Austin, is developing a chain of parks around a restored Waller Creek in downtown Austin. Running from Waterloo Park at 15th Street to Lady Bird Lake, the new Waller Creek parks district will include more than 35-acres of newly designed and connected urban parks and public open space, and more than three miles of new hike and bike trails, along with engaging art and educational programming. Founded on the bedrock of great design, the revitalized Waller Creek will renew the natural environment, foster the creative arts, and nourish authentic and uplifting experiences that reflect Austin’s diversity and dynamic spirit.
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http://waterloogreenway.org
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- Civic and Social Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Austin, Texas
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2010
- Specialties
- Parks, Creek Restoration, and Community Events
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1111 Red River
Austin, Texas 78701, US
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Thank you, Austin Community Foundation! 💚 From Waterloo Greenway, we are so grateful for your support! ✨
Exciting news! ACF announced today $2.5 million in grants to 130 Central Texas nonprofits through the Forever Austin Fund. We're proud to increase our funding by 11% this year to support more organizations addressing our region's most pressing challenges and greatest opportunities. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/e7yb2H_u.
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We’re still not over Saturday! 🤩 Austin, thank you for joining us on June 6 for the landmark Grand Opening of Waterloo Greenway Phase II: The Confluence! We can’t wait for you to continue to explore, connect and make memories here. 🌳✨ Thank you to all of our sponsors who made this event possible. 💚 What is your favorite part about Phase II? 🌱 Let us know in the comments! 💬
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Join the team at Waterloo Greenway Conservancy! 🌳✨ We’re growing, and we want you! 🌱 Learn more about our open full-time and part-time positions at Waterloo Greenway and Moody Amphitheater at https://lnkd.in/edFeGtT! 🌻 🔗
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That’s some good dirt! But this isn’t just any dirt. We’re talking about custom-engineered soil that’s been farmed for years before even touching Waterloo Greenway Phase II: The Confluence. 🌱 The soil we’ve implemented at Phase II is built for longevity, stability, and a healthy creek. It’s meant to function as a self-sustaining ecosystem, bringing a healthy and natural riparian Texas creek environment back to downtown Austin. 🌳 Our plants have doubled in size, and this soil held up beautifully through storm events. Dig into the details and learn all about our soil from Timothy Gazzo from Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc. Then, come see what some good dirt can do when The Confluence opens June 6, 2026! ☀️
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As we take you behind the scenes of the thoughtfully crafted details of Waterloo Greenway Phase II in our Making of Waterloo Greenway social media series, stay tuned for “The Language of the Limestone” featuring Gullivar Shepard of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc. 🪨✨ In this feature, we zoom in on the novel solution of Caliche, and how it is thoughtfully incorporated into the design of The Confluence. 🌿
Caliche – Notes on Applied Design Research Limestone makes up about 25% of all sedimentary rock mapped on earth’s surface but is estimated to comprise only 0.25% of the earth’s crust. This “veneer” is formed from ancient lake and ocean beds, where minerals settle and precipitate in water. From the chalky limestone cliffs of Dover to the honey-combed limestone of the Caribbean, limestone has tremendous variety in form. As it is the most-available stone material for human use, its local characteristics color how each region uses the material. Texas was essentially a low-lying sea for eons and has a great deal of variety in its limestone formations, both horizontally across the state and vertically as you cut down into the strata beneath your feet. In Texas, limestone is ubiquitous in building culture. It is valued as a highly workable quarried product, and its chemical properties are essential to the production of fertilizer, concrete, and steel. For Austin's Waterloo Greenway, we started material research early in the planning process to overcome the critical issue of creek bank stability, and we focused our attention on limestone. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc. is preparing to release a book that documents our applied research on caliche, a waste product of the limestone industry that has become an important component of the design of Waterloo Greenway. The search for how a familiar regional material takes on a new function in the Texas landscape is covered in the first chapter. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eawmzHw6 #Landscape #DesignResearch #WaterlooGreenway #Caliche Previous posts in series: Vertical Urbanism: https://lnkd.in/ePD4Ew6a Landscape First: https://lnkd.in/eWti34mi Landscape & Planning: https://lnkd.in/enrYAHK4
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Waterloo Greenway Phase II: The Confluence is more than a park. 🌳 ✨ Connecting 4th Street all the way down to Lady Bird Lake, Phase II creates a seamless way to experience nature while moving through the heart of downtown Austin. 💚 Every detail of The Confluence was thoughtfully designed with care and intention, in collaboration between Waterloo Greenway Conservancy and the City of Austin. Now, we’re taking you behind the scenes to show you how it all came to life! 🔍 Stay tuned for The Making of Waterloo Greenway @waterloogreenway on Instagram and Facebook. 🌱
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Join Waterloo Greenway Conservancy and the City of Austin on Saturday, June 6, 2026 from 10 am-2pm for the landmark grand opening of Waterloo Greenway Phase II: The Confluence! ✨ This transformative addition to Austin’s urban landscape represents years of collaboration, community input, innovative design, and environmental restoration. 🌱☀️ Phase II is located along Waller Creek between 4th Street and Lady Bird Lake. The celebration will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony, family-friendly activities, live music, art, interactive and sensory-friendly scavenger hunts, face painting, and more. 🌳🎶🔍🎨 Admission is free and open to the public. 💚 Affordable event parking will be available for $5 at the Austin Convention Center 5th St. Garage at 601 E. 5th St. Ridesharing and use of public transit are also encouraged. 🚗 Save the date! We can’t wait to see you for this historic, exciting moment for Waterloo Greenway! Learn more at waterloogreenway.org 🌻
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Gullivar Shepard's essay builds on the excellent keynote he gave at the "Landscape First" symposium. He puts the work we are doing on Waterloo Greenway in important context as we all get excited for opening Phase II: The Confluence in June.
Landscape First Last spring, I gave the keynote talk for the symposium entitled “Landscape First” at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. My intention in the talk was to share how I see landscape architecture—less as a particular set of professional skills, but rather a strategic position serving integrative work within the larger endeavor of city building. In urban contexts, landscape architecture as a practice can bridge many siloed sectors, operating between different scales, systems, communities, and bodies of specialty knowledge. The Still Water Foundation, led by Ellen Osborne Ray, is putting a spotlight on this integrative approach in landscape architecture. Still Water, in conjunction with UT Austin, has just digitally published a series of essays from the symposium. In my reflection, I describe how decades of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc.’s urban waterfront work target a deeply layered engagement with the environmental and social circumstances of the city in order to balance the financial and ecological performance of the site—and how to start changing the language of “restoration” which is so misleading relative to what is actually happening in these intensely urban landscape projects. Read my full essay here: https://lnkd.in/eQeRNe7j Previous post in series: https://lnkd.in/ecigbZpk #Landscape #Planning #UrbanEcology
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We are so grateful to Congressman Lloyd Doggett and Congressman Greg Casar for meeting with us in Washington, D.C. this week! Your support is invaluable as we work together to bring the vision for Waterloo Greenway to life! 🌱 Thank you for your leadership in securing 2026 Community Project Funding for both Palm Park and Phase III of Waterloo Greenway. 💚 We look forward to continuing to work with you to bring vibrant green spaces to our community making Austin more connected, healthy, and vibrant! 🌿🌳✨ Colette Pierce Burnette, Melissa Ayala, John Rigdon
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