Landa Park to get $4.6 million upgrade

NEW BRAUNFELS — An Austin firm has been hired to make $4.62 million in upgrades at Landa Park, including repairing a bridge, a dam and 4,400 feet of riverfront retaining walls.

“It's a very significant project to revitalize this park that's been loved to death,” City Parks Director Stacey Laird Dicke said Tuesday of the municipal recreation area that hosts 250,000 visitors annually.

She said Austin Filter Systems, the low bidder among four firms vying for the contract, was hired by the City Council on Monday and should start construction by June.

It has 455 days to complete the work, which includes replacing a pedestrian footbridge destroyed by flooding in 2010, patching the Landa Lake dam, and installing new retaining walls to replace decades-old barriers that are eroded, crumbling or submerged in many spots on the Comal River near its source.

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