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AES Indiana Project Greenspace

Living Well Pocket Park and Community Garden

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: January 16, 2014
Categories: AES Indiana Project Greenspace

2411 NORTH RURAL STREET Living Well Urban Farm hosted the community garden to provide garden plots, workshops and produce to neighbors in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood. Their mission is to educate and motivate, through demonstration, urban farming techniques. This work will exemplify that mission and create a large space for neighbors to gather and for the […]

IndyTilth

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Categories: AES Indiana Project Greenspace

FAIRFIELD AND 34TH ST NEAR THE DOUBLE 8 FOOD STORE KIB collaborated with a local non-profit, IndyTilth to install native trees, shrubs and perennials and a large rain garden at the Double 8 Food Store near Fairfield and 34th Street in the Mapleton-Fall Creek Neighborhood. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS PROJECT This project will accomplish: DESIGN […]

Indian Creek Reading Park

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: January 1, 2014
Categories: AES Indiana Project Greenspace

10833 EAST 56TH STREET, LAWRENCE This very active environmentally oriented school has a huge natural play area and plantings behind the school. They have done amazing things with this area in the past 10 years. They also want to add a fruit orchard and community garden area. But this project is for a quiet reading […]

Merrill Street Townhomes Pocket Park

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SOUTHWEST CORNER OF VIRGINIA AVE AND MERRILL ST IMPORTANCE OF THIS PROJECT This project will help accomplish: DESIGN PROCESS The planting of this amazing greenspace along the Cultural Trail in the Fletcher Place neighborhood was completed on November 16th 2013, with a spring bulb planting and putting the planted landscape to bed for winter. Two […]

Westminster Pocket Park

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2305 E. NEW YORK ST. In 2014, KIB will work with Westminster Neighborhood Ministries to transform four lots on the southeast corner of New York St. & Beville Ave. into a pocket park for the local community, to complement Westminster’s new adult services community center. The space will serve as a defined gathering space for […]

University Heights Pocket Park

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Categories: AES Indiana Project Greenspace, Clean Neighborhoods, Engaged Citizens, Partners

4133 MATHEWS AVENUE A partnership between KIB, the University Heights Neighborhood Association (UHNA), and the University of Indianapolis will transform the former site of a vacant apartment building into a community pocket park and greenspace. The park will serve to focal point for neighborhood get together, offer teaching opportunities about native plants and the natural […]

Historic Meridian Park Pocket Park

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33RD STREET, BETWEEN DELAWARE STREET & WASHINGTON BLVD. With a goal to develop a safe and beautiful space that residents of diverse backgrounds can connect, and improve their quality of life; KIB will work closely with the Historic Meridian Park Neighborhood Association (HMPNA) to put the park in Historic Meridian Park. The park will become […]

Millersville at Fall Creek Valley

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WINDRIDGE/EMERSON WAY AND 56TH STREET KIB worked with the Millersville/Fall Creek Valley Neighborhood Association to beautify the commercial areas of Windridge / Emerson Way and 56th Street. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS PROJECT This project will accomplish: DESIGN PROCESS We planted 38 trees including, oak, sugar maple, bald cypress, ginkgo and honey locust. These trees were […]

Fletcher Place Gateway

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KIB will work alongside Fletcher Place Neighborhood Association to create a vibrant gateway to the community utilizing native plants and public art. Additionally, this project will assist the community in development of a defined neighborhood identity and build upon the community engagement initiatives currently taking place in this neighborhood. VISION FOR THE SPACEKIB and the […]

Highland Vicinity Park

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2902 AND 2905 N. CAPITOL AVE. Keep Indianapolis Beautiful partnered with Boise Aspen Recycled Paper’s Project Up Campaign, the Alliance for Community Trees, People for Urban Progress, Synthesis Incorporated and Near North CDC to transform a long neglected, former brownfield site at 29th and Capital Avenue into a community asset. We contracted with Smock Fansler […]