The Old Town Commercial Association is working on a $6,000 grant to rebuild Burchard Park.
The park sits at Grand River Avenue and Turner Street in Old Town. Though many of Old Town’s popular festivals encompass the park, the park is frequently overlooked, in large part because it doesn’t have any playground equipment.
“It’s such a beautiful park and people don’t even know where it is,” says Jamie Schriner-Hooper with the Old Town Commercial Association.
Old Town is working with the City of Lansing and the Capital Region Community Foundation to raise enough money to assemble a playground in Burchard Park.
“This will be on the riverfront, which will be nice because it won’t only serve the loft dwellers in Old Town, but the surrounding neighborhoods,” she says. Schriner-Hooper describes the improvement as a “link” between Downtown and Old Town.
Old Town will save roughly $5,000 in construction costs by hosting a community build. The Old Town Commercial Association is working on a development schedule.
Source: Jamie Schriner-Hooper, Old Town Commercial Association
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
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