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Millersville at Fall Creek Preserve

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: January 1, 2015
Categories: AES Indiana Project Greenspace

56TH ST. & FALL CREEK PARKWAY NORTH DR. (NEAR 56TH & EMERSON AVE.) A partnership between Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, the Millersville at Fall Creek Valley Neighborhood Association, Indy Greenways and the City of Indianapolis Office of Sustainability dramatically enhanced a section of the Fall Creek Trail which the neighborhood adopted and improved over the last several years. Millersville residents created a community space […]

Paige Booker Park

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

858 NORTH PARKER The near east side is an area of high crime, low income, low home ownership, abandoned houses, decaying sidewalks, litter, and high weeds. In 2006, a mass murder of a family of seven occurred. Despite this, homeowners are working to turn the area around. The City created a TIF District, with funds […]

Living Well Pocket Park and Community Garden

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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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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 […]

Webster Park

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

48 SOUTH WEBSTER IMPORTANCE OF THIS PROEJCT This project will accomplish: WORK STATUS This work is complete. Stop by to check out the new greenspace! DONATE Continued success of projects like this depends on our sponsors and individuals like you. Consider donating to Keep Indianapolis Beautiful.

The Oaks Academy

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2301 NORTH PARK AVENUE The Oaks Academy was established without much of a playground or any outdoor amenities. They approached KIB to build a pocket park / arboretum / outdoor classroom on the vacant lots across the alley from the school building. The City of Indianapolis is selling the land behind the school for them […]

McCord Park

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36TH & WATSON RD This project revitalized a neglected pocket park in the heart of a neighborhood undergoing renovation. New, young, energetic residents teamed with long-term, mostly elderly residents to make this park a focal point for neighborhood activities. IMPORTANCE OF THIS PROJECT This project will accomplish: DESIGN PROCESS A landscape architect and friend of […]

Indian Creek Reading Park

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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 […]

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