Sugar Land City Council voted Jan. 27 to move forward with construction of phase two of the Brazos River Park and an adjacent festival site. Harper Brothers Construction was awarded the bid from City Council and will head the $12.38 million projects. Funding for phase two and the festival site is drawn from $20.6 million from Proposition 2, which was approved by voters in November 2013 as a part of the city's $31.5 million parks bond package. City Council reallocated $3.4 million of Proposition 2 funds intended for use in 2016 to fund the two projects. Keisha Seals, Sugar Land project manager for the Brazos River Park and festival site, said both projects will be constructed at the same time. Seals said as each phase of the Brazos River Park is completed, residents will be able to access to parts of the park while the festival site—located off Hwy. 59 adjacent to the University of Houston–Sugar Land campus—finishes construction. Once complete, the festival site will provide a central location for major city events. "A lot of the events that [the site] will have will be our major events like the kite festival and the Fourth of July festival," Seals said. "Those events that draw thousands of people to one location. This will be a great opportunity to have those events at one site." Initial grading for the 52–acre festival site is expected to be complete in May while part two of construction—turf and irrigation installation as well as landscape and construction of parking lots—is anticipated to be complete in fall 2016, according to city documents. Roadway improvements to allow access to the festival site from Brazos River Park will roll out as the site nears completion. Seals said part one of Brazos River Park phase two includes the installation of underground water and electric utilities, construction of trails and an overlook plaza. The first part of phase two is expected to be complete in December. Part two of construction includes landscape and irrigation installment and is scheduled for completion by 2017. The third part of phase two is the construction of the 25-acre Mid Lake, which is expected to be complete by 2018.