As part of yesterday’s Juneteeth Celebration city parks officials and neighborhood leaders from the Third Ward came together to also announce plans to renovation Emancipation Park. This 140 year-old community treasure was actually the first public park in the city of Houston, purchased for $800 by freed slaves. In order to undertake this effort the city is forging a public-private partnership with the Friends of Emancipation Park to raise funds for the improvements and renovations. (KTRK-13 News video below)