2ND COMMUNITY MEETING HELD

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

Vindicator: Changes In Store For Wick Park
ShoutYoungstown.com: Recap: 2nd Wick Park Meeting

STREETSCAPE TACKLES WICK PARK CORNERS

From the Vindicator:

If you’ve been to Wick Park lately, you likely have noticed the freshly planted and mulched rows of flowers near each of the park’s four corners.

Members of Youngstown CityScape were largely responsible for the plantings earlier this month, and the new additions are a segue to bigger changes and improvements to come for the park, some city and community leaders say. CityScape is a grassroots organization dedicated to the revitalization of Youngstown.

FIRST COMMUNITY MEETING COMPLETE

Over 80 citizens participated in the first Wick Park Revitalization community meeting Saturday, March 15th at Park Vista on the city's North Side.

After the speakers concluded, citizens broke out into 3 separate groups and provided input regarding short term goals vs. long term vision. The information was recorded by the Kent St. Urban Design team and will be used to formulate a strategic agenda for the next meeting which will take place in the next 30-45 days.

Building upon Youngstown's growing commitment to "Open Source Community Development", citizens will be able to track and participate in the entire planning, fundraising, and execution process of the Wick Park Project on this site.

Copies of the formal plan, meeting minutes, videos of all meetings, fundraising information, donation and volunteer opportunities, events, and general news/information will be accessible online via links provided on the right side of this page (as well as in future posts).

Click here for video from our first meeting: Wick Park (Meeting #1)

Stay tuned for updates here at the Wick Park Project website!

Valley24.com: Reinventing Wick Park
Vindicator: Wick Park workshop draws 80 participants
Tribune Chronicle: Wick Park Effort Begins
Shout Youngstown: This is the New Standard