As the Indianapolis chapter of Architecture for Humanity prepares for a trip to the Dominican Republic to help Engineers Without Borders renovate and expand a health clinic, AFH Indy founder ChunSheh Teo was also thinking locally.
In the last week he has met with Phil Schaefer of Keeping Indianapolis Beautiful and Tammy Golden of the Community Outreach Center of Reagan Park about a local beautification project.
Earlier this year KIB selected Golden’s proposal to turn a vacant lot into a serene pocket park on 23rd Street near the Monon for a grant. And now AFH Indy has jumped in to see if it can help make a preserve for neighborhood children a reality.
Here is how the KIB website described the initiative:
This is an important location, as the nearest park, Kennedy King Park, is across College Avenue and kids cannot get to it safely. This will give the neighbors a place to gather, and a place for the kids to play. It will create a focus for the neighborhood in an area of need. The park has not been designed yet, so specifics are not yet available as to what features we will be creating in this space. This is a group that was turned down three years ago that has since then built community and started work on their dream park without KIB. Their goal is to have a Paige Booker-style park, but we will start them out smaller and easier to help build the momentum of their neighborhood involvement.
As AFH Indy has more to announce on this project, it will post the information here on the blog.
Tags: Community Outreach Center, Keeping Indianapolis Beautiful, Phil Schaefer, Reagan Park, Tammy Golden
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