NEWS: Gasworks Bluff envisioned as future park
Humphrey Institute student Julie Warner is quoted in this article about her work with CHANCE.
When Rosemary Knutson looks out the window of Riverview Tower on the West Bank, she sees a neglected hillside with sparse trees and random garbage. But for eight years, she's had a vision of the blighted lot as a park, planted with native plants and teeming with, in her words, "birds and butterflies."
Two University students are working through the Humphrey Institute's CHANCE program to help Knutson and other Cedar-Riverside neighbors turn this vision into reality.
"The CHANCE program that we're doing is really about community engagement," Julie Warner said. "Our intention is to talk to major stakeholders, the owners of the land and also the park board commissioners. We're trying to explore the propriety and feasibility of preserving the land."
Minnesota Daily
March 27, 2008
