FW: 📣 Important Update on the Fitzhugh Concert Venue

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Gene Lowenthal

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Nov 19, 2025, 2:27:32 PM11/19/25
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Huge thanks to the Shield-Ayres Foundation!

 

--- Gene

 

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Subject: 📣 Important Update on the Fitzhugh Road Property

 

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Important Update on the

Fitzhugh Road Property

 

Thank you for signing up to learn more about Stop Fitzhugh Concert Venue. As you know, the proposed 5,000-seat outdoor concert and entertainment venue had the potential to harm Barton Creek and bring traffic, noise, and light pollution to nearby communities.

 

We want to share an important update.

 

Fitzhugh Ridge, LLC, an entity established by the Shield-Ayres Foundation, has entered into a contract with Blizexas LLC to purchase the property on which the large-scale concert venue was slated to be built. Fitzhugh Ridge and the Shield-Ayres Foundation share the community’s commitment to protecting this sensitive area of the Hill Country. The agreement aligns with the values of nearby residents and reduces potential impacts on the Barton Creek watershed.

 

As a result, the proposed venue will not be built on this property.

 

Once the property is transferred to Fitzhugh Ridge, Blizexas will withdraw its Texas Commission on Environmental Quality wastewater permit application that raised significant concerns for neighbors, environmental organizations and local experts due to potential impacts on Barton Creek and groundwater supplies. Three years after neighbors first came together, this outcome reflects steady involvement from community members and partner organizations who worked to protect water quality, roadway safety, and the natural character of the Hill Country.

 

We are grateful to everyone who stayed informed, attended meetings, shared updates, and supported this effort.

 

Thank you for standing with your community.

 

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Nov 19, 2025, 2:31:23 PM11/19/25
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Joining Gene and Linda, yessss!!

 

THANK you to Shield-Ayres Foundation!

 

Dick and Kathie Hanson

 

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Huge thanks to the Shield-Ayres Foundation!

 

--- Gene

 


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Connie Henry

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Nov 19, 2025, 2:52:52 PM11/19/25
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YES! HUGE THANKS!!!!!

Connie and Terry and family

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Kaila Wyllys

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Nov 19, 2025, 2:56:52 PM11/19/25
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This is fantastic news! Three cheers!!

Ayesha Anthony

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nell penridge

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Fabulous news!!  Thank you to Shield-Ayres Foundation!!


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On Nov 19, 2025, at 1:58 PM, 'Ayesha Anthony' via Hamilton Pool Road <hamilton-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

This is SO EXCITING!!!!

Hank Stringer

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Nov 20, 2025, 7:06:12 AM11/20/25
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Wonderful news!!! 

Thank you Shields-Ayer’s foundation

Liz and Hank Stringer

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True heroes!  Wild For Good!  We are so glad to be your neighbors. ❤️
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Miriam Wright

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Nov 21, 2025, 9:39:58 AM11/21/25
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This is wonderful news. Thanks so much to the Shields-Ayres Foundation. Now let's all pledge to do our best to continue to preserve and protect our beautiful natural spaces.



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Bob Ayres

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Nov 22, 2025, 1:48:30 PM11/22/25
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Thank you, neighbors, for all the congratulatory emails about the purchase by Shield-Ayres Foundation of the proposed Fitzhugh Concert Venue site.

 

So many people and organizations participated in so many ways to achieve this outcome. Our HPR and Fitzhugh communities came together, worked together and persevered—for more than three years!—to ensure this ill-conceived project would not be built in our community. Hurray!!!

 

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

 

Bob Ayres

Trustee, Shield-Ayres Foundation

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