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2019 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Public Spaces

Project Description

This project will make the Mount Vernon Park Neighborhood a more walkable, safe, and healthy community for residents of all ages, by installing improvements in neighborhood public spaces (community sidewalks and right of ways) that celebrate the diversity, history and culture of the area and hosting community intergenerational community events.

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Fort Wayne, IN

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017

Project Category: Transportation

Description: The grant funding a pilot project working with Team Better Block, which resulted in the installation of a traffic calming “plaza” as well as an event promoting active communities. Good results but different from what the grant was originally intended to accomplish.

Gary, IN

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018

Project Category: Public Spaces

Description: Downtown in the City of Gary activated an underutilized park, engaging the entire Gary community by offering free or low-cost events, programming, and amenities available to the general public.

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