To date, one of the most sustainable park projects in the United States, Canal Park began as a LEED Gold and 3-Star SITES Certified landscape – one of seven in the country. But the park’s legacy has not only been its capacity to absorb 1.5m gallons of stormwater onto the site for re-use in irrigation, toilet-flushing, and, singular among other parks, re-use of cleansed water to top off humanengaged fountains, it is also an equitable space welcoming the breadth of the neighborhood’s constituency. This is the first Housing and Urban Development (HUD) project to retain all of the vibrant community that call the Southeast District home.