More than 300 volunteers celebrate building the new German Park playground (June 2011)
(Photo credit: Baltimore Ravens)
With support from Baltimore City Department of Housing & Community Development, the Baltimore Ravens, our major funding partner, and KaBOOM!, a nationally recognized expert in organizing community-based playground design and construction projects, RHIC and 300 volunteers built a new playground in a single day, June 16th 2011.
The playground site, located on Linden Ave. near the intersection of Whitelock St., had previously been the location of an asphalt company. In 1979, Baltimore City built the original playground at German Park after residents expressed concerns about the neighborhood safety threat created by the asphalt company’s industrial work. But over the course of time, the playground fell into disrepair as Whitelock St. suffered with drug and gang activity. Finally, in the mid-1990s the City demolished the buildings on the 900 block of Whitelock St.
See below for a true example of community building, where RHIC not only gathered a group of residents, volunteers, and friends to achieve a common goal, but also erected a physical structure for the use of all of Reservoir Hill:
3/18/11 4pm
6/6/11 11am
6/12/11 8am
(Photo credit: Howard Fink)
6/12/11 12pm
(Photo credit: Howard Fink)
6/13/11 11am
6/13/11 1:30pm
6/16/11 10am
6/16/11 2pm
6/16/11 6pm
6/19/11 3pm
(Photo credit: Howard Fink)
