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.

Fort Wayne, IN

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019

Project Category: Public Spaces

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.