Cooper Young Gateway Gardens
The CY Garden Club plans to create small garden pocket parks. These would be large planter boxes filled with a variety of hardy shrubs and flowers to enhance corners on Southern, Cooper, Young, and East Parkway.
Leader
Judi Shellabarger
Location
Intersection of Southern and Cooper and the intersection of Young and East Parkway Memphis, TN 38104
About the project
The Cooper Young neighborhood is known for its Trestle sculpture and "I Love Memphis" red mural, at Central and Cooper. Unfortunately, other main entries into our neighborhood aren't as inviting. We would like to add small "pocket parks" in these areas. These pocket parks would not only create unique entry points into our neighborhood, but further our community pride and ownership.
The Steps
We would love to raise $3500+ to beautify these four corners of our neighborhood. Our main sources of fundraising will depend on meetings, mail requests, Facebook, and our community resources. Our goal is to raise this money by March 23, 2016.
Why we‘re doing it
We have very few green spaces in the middle of the city. These pocket parks will beautify our neighborhood, improve our air quality, make our streets more walkable, promote a sense of traffic calm, and add to our community pride.