HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Three weeks after ABC13 first broke the story of plans by Harris Health to condemn a tract of Hermann Park donated to the City of Houston 111 years ago, we have additional documentation showing that the Texas Medical Center actively pushed for the condemnation despite concerns of the Hermann Park Conservancy.

The new information comes as another descendant of the land's original donor, August Warneke, says his family wishes that the park land remains greenspace for Houstonians should be honored.

"I'm proud to know the land I'm riding my bicycle on and walk or playing with my dogs, is a family homestead and I'm very proud of that," Dorsey Parker said, the great-great-great grandson of Auguste Warneke, donor of the land known as the "Warneke Tract" to those famili

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