On Saturday, June 21st, over 60 citizens met at the Park Vista Community Room for the second of a three part planning series designed to gather ideas for major renovations to historic Wick Park on the city’s North Side.Community members, neighborhood groups and YSU students along with officials from the City of Youngstown, Youngstown State University, Youngstown CityScape, Defend Youngstown and the Design Center of Northeast Ohio spent over 2 hours discussing short term and long term physical improvement and usage plans for the 34 acre park.
Participants broke into two groups to brainstorm. Ideas for improvement included:
- improved lighting
- making the front of the community center and the entrance to the park more defined for first-time visitors;
- spreading seating throughout;
- removing some unsightly barriers and guardrails;
- finding a more discreet location for trash bins;
- redesigning a play area to make it easier for parents to supervise their youngsters
- having smaller parking lots as opposed to one large one;
- forming public and private partnerships;
- creating areas for musical performance and a field for casual athletic recreation;
- placement of benches around the park perimeter;
- diagonal parking around park on Elm/Broadway/Park
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ShoutYoungstown.com: Recap: 2nd Wick Park Meeting
