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star-24px 2019 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Public Spaces
Using community designed public art and quick build place-making tools, this project will beautify and activate one full city block on Division Street. This is the first important step to link the heart of downtown with the waterfront via a low stress Neighborway street.

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Alley before murals.
Alley after wall and street murals painted.
People walking on street mural

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