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LYNNBROOK PARK
Lynnbrook Park opened on July 27
with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Today, community members are
enjoying the park and its amenities.
and NRPA's
efforts to empower
communities nationwide to pursue
and prioritize environmental resilience
at the local level went hand
in hand with this need.
Construction of the park started
in May 2023, following efforts
to remove a parking lot and debris
within the space. Functional
and aesthetic features, like boulder
arches and seat walls, prevent
flooding and improve the park's
appearance. Retaining walls and
reinforced concrete pipes also serve
to improve structural integrity and
drainage to address and mitigate
the area's past flooding issues.
Envisioning a
Community Hub
When searching for the 2021 Parks
Build Community awardee, NRPA
considered several criteria, including
new equity-based guidelines,
to maximize the benefits to a community
in need of park access, and
more broadly, all of the many benefits
of parks and recreation, such
as improved physical and mental
health among residents, increased
social connection, and increased
economic health, among other facets
(tinyurl.com/4yk7ddjs).
The
search
focused on the Southeast
and led NRPA to Tennessee. At
the time, only 38 percent of Chattanooga
residents lived within a
10-minute walk to a park, a measure
that represents adequate park
access for a community (tinyurl.
com/2heamrj6).
Chattanooga's Oak Grove
neighborhood has a diverse mix
of more than 1,000 Black, Latino
and white residents in need of
park access. The neighborhood
has a significant Guatemalan pop60
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ulation, as many fled a civil war
in Guatemala that persisted from
1960 to 1996. Due to the need for a
strong labor supply in Chattanooga's
industrial area, many Guatemalan
immigrants settled in Chattanooga
and encouraged family
members to join them in the 1980s
(tinyurl.com/2heamrj6). Today,
the Guatemalan population continues
to flourish in Chattanooga,
contributing to the city's diversity
and offering unique insights on
desired park features during the
public engagement phase of Lynnbrook
Park's development.
Community
engagement
grounded the design of Lynnbrook
Park from its beginning. City of
Chattanooga sought to
create a
park that reflected the culture of
the local area, following the visioning
efforts by the Trust for Public
Lands (TPL) and local lawyer, artist
and writer Josiah Golson. The
Chattanooga Public Lands Office
and TPL successfully applied for
and was awarded a National Endowment
of the Arts grant, and the
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