Leader
Joyce Moore
Location
201 and 209 W. 33rd Indianapolis, IN 46205
About the project
Help us put the park in Historic Meridian Park!
Historic Meridian Park invites you to help us create a “pocket park” – an attractive, low-maintenance green space where residents and our friends can gather to chat, play, read, and reap the benefits of fresh air and nature.
Our pocket park is being developed in the heart of the neighborhood on two adjacent lots on 33rd Street between Pennsylvania Street and Washington Boulevard. Our park will provide an imaginative “play station” and stump course for children, benches for reading and chatting, an outdoor movie area, and a shelter for picnics and other social gatherings. It will be landscaped with drought-tolerant native plants.
The design of this neighborhood park is a result a collaborative process between Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Ball State and our neighbors! Learn more about the ideation of this new greenspace by watching the PLAYscape video and in our photo gallery.
Our team is working in partnership with the Mapleton Fall Creek Development Corp (MFCDC). The MFCDC will play an essential role as our fiscal sponsor and manage the tax deductible funds raised through our campaign to build the park.
The Steps
Thanks to several generous individuals and grants, we have secured the property, built our play station and stump course, installed an outdoor bench that will double as an outdoor movie screen, built a brick column entrance, and landscaped the park with drought-tolerant native perennials and trees. We have also installed a fence and are preparing to build our shelter.
Additional steps include:
Pour concrete floor for shelter
Pour concrete walks to provide accessibility to all areas of the park
Add a toddler swing
Purchase 2 additional benches
Provide an outdoor grill
Purchase of solar lanterns to sit on top of brick columns
Purchase of stains for wood PlayStation, shelter, and movie bench with screen
Why we‘re doing it
Historic Meridian Park interviewed 35 representatives of our 200-household neighborhood to see what their priorities and needs are as part of a quality of life plan. The need for green space was second only to bringing more businesses to our area. Despite the “park” in our neighborhood’s name, we had no green space!
Our Pocket Park will serve as a shared front porch or backyard – a place where neighbors can gather to share their lives and get to know one another better in the beauty of nature. It’s the historic neighborhood definition of “social networking.” We’d love your help!
To learn more about our partner, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, and the over 500 annual community improvement projects it supports visit: http://www.kibi.org/