City of Brownsville Print
2019 AARP Community Challenge Grantee
Project Category
Public Spaces
This project will transform and activate Brownsville's 14th Street Plaza into by installing wayfinding, adding creative placemaking elements that support local artists, provide seating options for people of all ages, and adding landscaping elements.
Project Results
AARP funds helped reactivate and transform the 14th Street Plaza into a vibrant community space by the addition of tree lighting, tables, seating, a shade canopy and murals in the archways located on the wall of an adjacent building. The Three Graces mural by local artists Alexandria Canchola, Monica Lugo and Samantha Rawls is about the relationships between sisters, cities and countries.
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