Austinites overwhelmingly voted for Proposition B in the Nov. 2 election, an outcome that will allow the city to move ahead on plans to trade some of its land for a future park.
The swap could send Austin's Central Maintenance Complex property at 2525 Lakeshore Blvd. to the winner of a public bidding process in exchange for dozens of acres of land elsewhere in the city. The high bidder would also have to supply funding for a new replacement maintenance center and parkland restoration at Fiesta Gardens.
The proposition language outlining Austin's ask—"at least 48 acres of waterfront land contiguous to an existing city park"—makes one property the likely centerpiece of the trade. That site is the Driveway Austin training track at 8400 Delwau Lane, situated off the Colorado River just east of Hwy. 183. The property is adjacent to John Treviño Jr. Metropolitan Park and surrounded by a 31-acre ribbon of city-owned parkland. And Oracle, with its headquarters campus located directly west of the city's Lakeshore facility, is likely interested in acquiring that land in the trade.
