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star-24px 2019 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Public Spaces

Project Description

This project includes altering a closed portion of Laclede Avenue to install a parklet with public seating, placemaking, and planters. These improvements will shorten the crossing distance for pedestrians, offer a safe resting place for cyclists, and create a new inviting public space for customers and visitors.

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Nearby AARP Community Challenge Grantees

Citizens for Modern Transit

St. Louis, MO

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017

Project Category: Transportation

Description: Pop-up demonstrations were used to build support for the development of improved public transit.

STL Village

St. Louis, MO

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020

Project Category: Public Spaces

Description: A garden will be restored to serve as a gathering place and provide residents with opportunities to volunteer by repairing and painting garden beds, adding new trees and plants, a bike rack, Artscape and pergola with benches.

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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