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Discovery Green is an 11.78-acre (47,700 m2) public urban park in Downtown Houston, Texas, bounded by La Branch Street to the west, McKinney Street to the north, Avenida de las Americas to the east, and Lamar Street to the south. The park is next to the George R. Brown Convention Center and Avenida Houston entertainment district. Discovery Green has a lake, bandstands and venues for public performances, two dog runs, a playground, and recreational lawns. In the early 2000s, a public-private partnership between the City of Houston and a group of local philanthropic organizations, including the Kinder Foundation, was formed to build a public green space in Downtown. After this partnership financed the 2004 purchase of surface parking lots on the east side of Downtown, the Discovery Green Conservancy and the City raised $125 million to construct the park. The design of the park, led by landscape architecture firm Hargreaves Associates, began in 2005. Discovery Green opened on April 13, 2008; within two months, an estimated 250,000 people visited the park.