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star-24px 2021 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

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Housing
Epicenters Canal Commons affordable housing development will get a critical new element - a new senior-friendly greenspace complete with accessible trails, benches, and shade features - ensuring that Green Rivers older residents can safely age-in-place.

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Nearby AARP Community Challenge Grantees

Epicenter

Green River, UT

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019

Project Category: Housing

Description: This grant will demonstrate and encourage new housing options for low-to-moderate income older adults by constructing a model Frontier House. This model will be developed with input from older adults, and include a focus on accessibility and low maintenance that will help residents age in place in their community.

Epicenter (2023)

Green River, UT

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Public places

Description: The project will build a pavilion at Pearl Baker Park designed to be accessible to older visitors, with hand rails and a soft pathway surface to reduce the potential for injuries from falls.

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