Goals
- To purchase city owned lots to create 2 legacy parks.
- To create a banner erection program using USPS stamp art as artwork.
- To create well lighted, secure & walkable parks to encourage visits.
- To create a volunteer corps to design, construct & maintain parks.
- To create a "sense of place and community" for residents & businesses.
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Overview
The MLK Legacy Parks & Banner Project has two importance: 1) Cultural: to help mitigate the successive decades of social divestments that created deplorable street conditions on King Drive & has discouraged tens of hundreds of St. Louis citizens from visiting this historic corridor. 2) Art: to purchase vacant city-owned lots, convert them into legacy parks to honor Dr. King and other leaders through banner art that will become the basis for a more detail element structuring design contest.
Deliverables:
- Create 2 small attractive, walkable, secure, & well-lighted legacy parks.
- Create banner art based on U.S. Postal stamps art of Dr. King & other black leaders.
- Raise $25,000 for banners & art contest.
- Award 2 contest winners (local artists) with cash prizes for “best” element structures designs for each park.
- Create a volunteer parks design-build team & maintenance plan.
How will the 25K be Used? |
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| Budget Notes: The budget will not cover labor for the costs of the design-build team and volunteer construction and maintenance program. The Legacy consultant will coordinate these activities, along with fundraising and selecting element structure design finalist based on a strict criteria for the theme honored. | |
| $ 5,000 | To purchase lots from City of St. Louis & clear them. |
| $ 5,000 | To hire a legacy (art, culture & historic) quality consultant |
| $ 7,500 | To install lighting, benches & walkways. |
| $ 5,000 | To purchase banners, security video systems & install them. |
| $ 2,500 | To promote art element structuring contest. |
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