2025 Call 4 Projects: Places 4 People

Commissioner Lesley Briones announced an additional $33.5 million in infrastructure investments spanning across Alief, Sharpstown, Westchase and surrounding neighborhoods. The 2025 Places 4 People projects support public safety, by improving roadways, and flood resiliency for the community.

These projects mark the next chapter in a program that was launched in 2023 and has awarded a total $252.4 million across 59 projects, in partnership with 28 local organizations.

Places 4 People is a collaborative infrastructure program to improve neighborhood public safety, drainage, roadway conditions, and community connections through partnerships.

2025 Projects

Alief Forest South Neighborhood Transformation: Drainage, Roadway, and Public Safety Improvements

A transformational $25.6 million neighborhood overhaul including new detention ponds, street reconstruction, and replacement of aging water and sewer lines to improve drainage, mobility, and public safety. The Alief Forest South neighborhood is located within the 100-year floodplain and has 70 FEMA repetitive loss properties.

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Alief Mobility Improvements

This project designs a shared-use path in Alief, along a section of the community on the High Injury Network. It will run from Keegans Bayou to Fort Bend County. The path will include a new crosswalk at West Bellfort Avenue. The project will benefit children walking to two nearby schools, residents going to three parks, and a retail center.


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Lakeside Estates Roadway Improvements

This project in the Briargrove Park/Walnut Bend community rehabilitates roadway, drainage, and sidewalks along Lakeside Estates Drive and Lynbrook Drive. The area has experienced 22 crashes in five years. The improvements will make the neighborhood safer for drivers, and children walking to nearby schools.


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Shadowlake Mobility Improvements

This community has seen multiple serious pedestrian crashes, including one death. This project designs a shared-use path with a new crosswalk on Westpark Drive and Richmond Avenue in Alief. The path creates safe connections for the Shadowlake neighborhood to Outley Elementary, the AISD Center for Advanced Careers, multiple parks, and a nearby medical center. 


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Hayes Road Re-design

The re-design effort in the Westchase neighborhood will plan the full reconstruction of Hayes Road, improving roadway conditions, sidewalks, and storm sewer systems. The corridor serves the Houston Community College Alief Hayes Campus and Hawthorne Terrace senior community.


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Wallingford Drive Re-design

The road in this corridor of the Westchase District frequently sees ponding after a rainstorm, making it difficult for residents, and first responders to navigate through the community. Similar to the Hayes Road Re-design, this project plans the full reconstruction of Wallingford Drive with roadway, sidewalk, and storm sewer upgrades to enhance neighborhood safety and create long-term infrastructure resilience.


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Sharpstown Mobility Improvements

Construction of a shared-use path connecting Beechnut Street to the Bayou Greenway and providing a safer way to cross under I-69 in an area with high pedestrian and bicycle crash history.

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2025 Partners

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