City awards record number of neighborhood improvement grant projects
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Fort Wayne, Ind. – Mayor Tom Henry and the City of Fort Wayne’s Neighborhood Planning and Activation Workgroup announced today that a record 47 neighborhood improvement grant projects are being awarded, totaling more than $200,000. These projects range from new landscaping in common areas to replacing neighborhood signage.
The announcement was held at Adams Elementary School on New Haven Avenue in the Harvester Neighborhood. Harvester is using their grant to install creative artistic crosswalks, ‘the JET-Way’ (school mascot), that promotes safety and connects students from the elementary school to nearby McCormick Park. Gret Machlan, Harvester Neighborhood President, Misty Zent, Harvester Neighborhood Vice President, and Allison Holland, Adams Elementary School’s principal, were at the announcement to celebrate the Neighborhood Improvement Grant program.
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