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Chautauqua, NY
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: This project added two tennis courts to the Chautauqua Institution's campus. One of the courts can be converted into two pickleball courts as needed. Pickleball -- a mashup of tennis and ping-pong, is a popular sport among older adults, since the game is both low-impact and fast-faced.
Melba, ID
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: This project will construct a 15-foot by 15-foot octagonal gazebo in Centennial Park. The ADA-accessible gazebo, with two benches and ADA parking spaces, will provide a meeting place for community events and gatherings.
Kerrville, TX
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: The project will install benches near tennis courts giving players a place to rest and socialize. A shade structures over an outdoor fitness center will make the fitness equipment more welcoming in the Texas heat.
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Terrytown, LA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Accessory dwelling units, tiny homes and manufactured housing
Description: This project will support construction of affordable housing units for older adults in a cottage community. The homes will incorporate universal design elements, feature green infrastructure and connect to a microgrid to keep the power on during severe weather.
New Orleans, LA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Bikeability
Description: To improve bikeability in New Orleans' Algiers neighborhood, this project added bike racks, a bicycle repair station and decorative lighting along a three-block section of Kabel Drive, the area's major commercial corridor.
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