Title
Lowe's 100 Hometowns Grant Acceptance
Action
Action:
A. Accept a grant in the amount of $260,000 from Lowe's Home Improvement for the construction of the Urban Arboretum Trail Spring Street Plaza, and
B. Adopt a budget ordinance appropriating $260,000 from Lowe's Home Improvement to the General Grants Fund.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Alyson Craig, Planning, Design, and Development
Erin Chantry, Planning, Design, and Development
Laura Bandara, Planning, Design, and Development
Explanation
* The Spring Street Plaza is located at 1301 Spring Street in the Greenville neighborhood in Council District 1. The plaza consists of one city-owned parcel; parcel identification number: 078-444-19.
* The site is located between townhomes and connected via a walkway to Fontana Street with single-family houses along the property line. It is adjacent to Greenville Park, Walter G. Byers Elementary School, and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Athletic League.
* This project is part of the Urban Arboretum Trail managed by the city's Tree Canopy Preservation Program and Urban Design Center to create community spaces in urban areas that celebrate the City of Charlotte's nationally recognized tree canopy and leverage publicly owned land to create unique places that educate, preserve, and engage the community.
* The site falls within the North Tryon/North Graham Corridor of Opportunity Area of Influence. The project is a listed "Priority Project" in the North Tryon/North Graham Playbook under the Integrated Natural and Built Environment theme publicly released in Spring 2023.
* The city applied for and was awarded the Lowe's 100 Hometowns grant for $260,000 in addition to $50,000 allocated from the Tree Canopy Protection Program for this project. Grant funding will allow the City of Charlotte to build a permanent open space in the Greenville neighborhood.
* Initial community engagement efforts occurred in spring 2022 to gather feedback on the types of design elements and progr...
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