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Main Street West Memphis Print

star-24px 2019 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Public Spaces
Students, artists and volunteers will work together to install a parklet with LED lights and create a trail along the Main Street that features bicycles turned into public art.

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Collection of bikes to be refurbished into art.
Colorful painted bikes to become art.
Painted bike sculpture.

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City of Osceola

Osceola, AR

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021

Project Category: Public places

Description: This project will install a tree-shaded paved walking path along the Rosenwald playground, next to the Osceola Senior Center, to support daily exercise and promote the integration of older adult and youth recreational spaces.

ABOUT THE AARP COMMUNITY CHALLENGE

Launched in 2017, the annual AARP Community Challenge provides small grants to local governments and nonprofits in order to fund quick-action, ready-to-implement projects that can help communities become more livable for people of all ages.

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