More than 300 volunteers from PNC Bank, a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, City Mission, organizers from KaBOOM! and residents of the Brightmoor neighborhood joined forces on Saturday, June 26, to build a new, safe playground at City Mission. The new playground's design is based on drawings created by children who participated in a Design Day event in April. The children's designs were shared with their parents in making the final selections of what equipment would create the perfect playground for City Mission.
The new playground will provide more than 500 children in the local community with a safe, fun, new and clean place to play. The children who attend City Mission Academy and programs only had old, outdated equipment to play on. They now have a wonderful new playground. This playground is the second one built by KaBOOM! and PNC, and one of more than 150 KaBOOM! will lead across the country in 2010 in an effort to provide a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America.
In addition to the community-built playground, the new play area also included an Imagination Playground in a Box -- a breakthrough playspace concept designed by architect David Rockwell to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play. Complete with custom designed blue foam blocks and other loose parts, and elements that encourage sand and water play. Imagination Playground in a Box allows children to constantly reconfigure their environment and design their own course of play.
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