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2024 AARP Community Challenge Grantee
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Public places
└ Park enhancements
└ Park enhancements
This project will enhance a park and community garden with shuffleboard and cornhole games, bocce ball courts and benches. The activation will create a safe gathering space, located near schools, older adult housing and tribal communities.
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Royal Oak, MI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: The city will add accessible seating and picnic tables to the local senior center and nearby park. The benches and tables will replace dilapidated amenities that are not ADA-compliant.
Lyndon, VT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Park enhancements
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Tucson, AZ
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: City officials set out to revitalize the underused Francisco Elias Esquer Park, located around the corner from a large public housing community for older adults in Tucson's Barrio Blue Moon neighborhood. To address the needs of locals with disabilities, volunteers installed a wheelchair accessible walking path, benches and a dog comfort station for service animals. They also added passive water harvesting basins to draw birds, bees, butterflies and other wildlife. At a planting party for community members -- one of several events to publicize the new amenities -- neighbors spent a day digging in the dirt and enjoying a renewed sense of community.
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AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Public art installations
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Reno, NV
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: Many of Reno's Native residents have limited access to fresh produce. To provide nutritious food to local families, the Center for Healthy Aging converted a vacant lot into an intergenerational, indigenous community garden. The Center wanted to ensure the space was accessible and welcoming, so it installed ADA-compliant benches, raised garden beds and LED lighting in the space. Today, the garden hosts programming for people of all ages, including culinary classes, culturally relevant gardening instruction and a harvest festival.
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