A park with historical significance
The city dates Rosewood’s establishment to 1929 as Austin’s first public space designated for African Americans. Its history includes recreation, community gatherings and Juneteenth celebrations.[1]
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Rosewood is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas boundary dataset. The saved source records its planning status as plan approved. These mapped categories differ from colloquial neighborhood names. Districts people name in conversation, like South Congress, Rainey Street or the Sixth Street entertainment district, are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area or straddle two. This boundary is a single polygon in the city's file, with ordinance 20011129-067 recorded in the source, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as ROSEWOOD.
Rosewood Park holds a significant place in Austin’s Black history and remains a setting for recreation and community life. The city records a completed 2026 playground project, adding new play and gathering spaces to a much older civic landscape.
2 linked sources · CheckedThe city dates Rosewood’s establishment to 1929 as Austin’s first public space designated for African Americans. Its history includes recreation, community gatherings and Juneteenth celebrations.[1]
The city says a new playscape opened in winter 2026, followed by a pavilion, seating, shade trees and sidewalk improvements in summer. The project page marks the work complete.[1]
The Delores Duffie Recreation Center page traces the property’s earlier residential history and the development of public recreation programs beginning in 1929.[2]
The city project page checked for this guide says the playground and associated 2026 improvements are complete and open to the public.[1]
The city lists it at 1182 North Pleasant Valley Road and provides facility and auditorium contact information on the recreation-center page.[2]
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Boundary drawn from City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas, as last modified September 22, 2021. Markers are placed from geocoded street addresses, so a record whose address we cannot geocode is listed below but not pinned. The panels under the map are the full text equivalent.
The 25 most recently issued inside this boundary (page limit 25)
Austin Public Health · up to 15 most recent inside this boundary
We could not place any Austin Public Health inspection from ZIP 78722 inside this boundary. We match by geocoded street address, so this means none we can place — not none that exist.
Texas Dept. of Licensing & Regulation filings · up to 15 inside this boundary
Texas Comptroller mixed-beverage filers we placed inside this boundary
3 of 17 filers in ZIP 78722 placed inside this boundary. Each venue’s figure is its own gross receipts over its own filing months — there is deliberately no area total, because this is a sample, not a census.
Rosewood is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin neighborhood-planning boundary dataset. Its status in the saved source is plan approved. Inclusion in this file does not by itself mean a neighborhood plan was adopted. Well-known districts such as South Congress, Rainey Street and the Sixth Street entertainment district are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area, or straddle two. The Rosewood boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
City of Austin ordinance number 20011129-067 is recorded against this planning area in the city's Neighborhood Planning Areas dataset, with planning status plan approved.
City of Austin Development Services has issued 3,439 building permits that it has geocoded inside the Rosewood planning-area boundary, the earliest dated August 16, 1978 and the most recent September 25, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $635,150,189. Declared value is the figure the applicant put on the permit application, not market value or finished cost. Counted from the city's Issued Construction Permits dataset (3syk-w9eu), building permits only, over every issue date in that dataset. The boundary test needs a mapped coordinate, and about one building permit in seven (13.8% as published on 2026-07-26) carries no location, so those rows cannot be placed in any neighbourhood and are not in this figure.
ZIP code 78722 has a centroid inside the Rosewood boundary. We match ZIP codes to planning areas by testing each ZIP's centroid against the boundary polygon, so a large ZIP can overlap an area without its centre landing inside it. Use the boundary, not the ZIP, as the authority.