Grants filed for Tyler’s Legacy Trails renovations, includes city’s 29th park

TYLER, Texas ( KETK ) – The Tyler City Council authorized the filing of applications to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for grants to develop a new park and renovate another on the Legacy Trails.

According to a statement, the city plans to build Stewart Park, which would be the city’s 29th park and the first time a new park has been added since 2004. The city said that their parks and recreation department applied for a $500,000 grant for the development of the park, if granted the funds will be awarded through a grant matching program.

T.B. and Gladys Stewart donated the nine acres alongside Frankston Highway, where the future park will be developed, to the City of Tyler in 2012. The donation included the Stewart home, which Mr. Stewart built from scratch. Parts of the home will be salvaged to create a pavilion, and a historical marker will be added.

The City of Tyler

The City said that the master plan of the property also includes “becoming a trailhead for the second phase of Legacy Trail, which was funded through a grant from the Texas Department of Transportation.”

At the other end of Legacy Trails Phase two the council authorized $69,995.89 for the purchase of new playground equipment for W.E. Winters Park at 900 S. Peach Ave.

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