CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – The South Norfolk neighborhood has a brand-new community park and it’s all thanks to a local nonprofit and a group of architects.
It’s located at the ForKids Landmark Center building. Crews were out at the site all day on Friday, Oct. 4, working to build the park in a day.
“[We’re] just super excited to see this to come to be, to continue to add artwork in and around the Landmark Center, to really create it as a community asset and public space that we envisioned when we moved in three years ago now,” SAID Bill Young, the Chief Innovation Officer at ForKids.
ForKids is a local nonprofit that works with families experiencing homelessness.
Young explained the project was in partnership with volunteers from the local chapter of the American Institue of Architects (AIA).
“They’ve been building in advance at the makerspace to get all the component parts together. MEB contractors is out here with a big team to do the install, so we’ll get all done in a day,” Young said.