Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: January 1, 2014
Categories: AES Indiana Project Greenspace
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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 […]
Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: January 1, 2013
Categories: AES Indiana Project Greenspace, Clean Neighborhoods, Engaged Citizens, Partners
2927 PARK AVENUE, 46205 This area formerly lacked open greenspace for residents to participate in recreation activities, host neighborhood and family gatherings and ultimately have immediate access for improvements in their everyday quality of life. IMPORTANCE OF THIS PROJECT This project will accomplish: DESIGN PROCESS KIB will work with Mapleton-Fall Creek Development Corporation (MFCDC) to […]
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BROOKSIDE PARKWAY SOUTH AND PARKER ST. The Paramount Peace Park is a tree-canopy-art-park located at the corner of Brookside Parkway South Drive, and Nowland Avenue. Each year, new art pieces created by local artists will be woven into the canopy, allowing park-goers to become aware of our human connection to nature as their eyes are drawn […]
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6200 E. WASHINGTON ST. In 2012, the Irvington Terrace neighborhood was awarded an IPL Project GreenSpace grant from KIB for their vision of a community gathering space along the Pennsy Trail. This space is intended to raise awareness of the underused Pennsy Trail and to provide the community with a gathering space for neighborhood events. KIB worked with […]
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BROOKSIDE AVE, E. 12TH ST AND ARSENAL AVE. KIB is working with the Windsor Park Neighborhood Association (WPNA) to restore this pocket park to the former beauty and amenities that the park once had 100 years ago after George Kessler designed the space as part of the Brookside Parkway. The triangle park will add to […]
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14 N. OXFORD STREET (BEHIND 23 N. RURAL ST, THE COMMONWEALTH There is a well-established community garden behind the newly restored Former IPS School 3 Building, now called The Commonwealth. This building will house 32 mixed-income apartments. Both the garden and the apartments were developed by Englewood Christian Church. This pocket park project is the […]
