Initiative to consider the conservation model for reviving the city parks – a business report for a bigger Baton Rouge

Varsity Sports founder and owner Jenny Peters rethink the plan of the main ones that launched last year to be aligned with what she believes is a new vision for the city.

Predict Baton Rouge is a Cooperation Initiative Where locals can share ideas and visions to improve city parks and pedestrian paths. His focus is the underpass of Perkins Road, Brooks Park and City Park.

We somehow restart this conversation to be more in line with the Baton Rouge House in the Baton Rouge campaign, says Peters. “I think this vision is part of this reality and how to happen.”

She says a part of the vision is Check out the plans For the area of ​​recreation lakes, which includes Brooks Park and City Park.

For the inspiration, the group examined other cities with parks with signature and how they are maintained. Peters says some of the parks are financed and managed through a conservation model that includes a private non-profit organization park-benefit that maintains a public park through money raising, surgery and management, capital enhancement and programming development of the Community with a mutually agreed plan with a government agency.

Unity Park in Greenville, South Carolina; Bayou Buffalo in Houston; and a hundred -year park in Nashville, Tennessee; are some of the parks Provide Baton Rouge The group looked like examples. Other remarkable conservation models include a New Orleans City Park and New York Central Park.

“It’s almost like an independent business that enters and helps the city raise the funds needed to make it a mega-park, and it supports it,” says Peters.

She added that the group met with city leaders to discuss whether a consulting firm should be hired to determine the feasibility of a conservation park.

“The goal is to get a beautiful recreation area that includes City Park, Brooks Park, The University Lake System, all its entertainment paths and activities and similar things,” says Peters. Think of it as a large unit that is well funded and well maintained and how you get to it is what we need to look for in other cities and have a vision to do it. “

Breck issued a statement of Daily report Noting some turning partnerships that the Agency has entered, which include the KNOCK KNOCK Children’s Museum, the Baton Rouge Football Club and the Baton Rouge Law Foundation and Criminal Justice.

“As responsible managers of the EBR taxpayer dollars, BREC is committed to examining all and all feasible business proposals to improve the quality of community service and to increase the financial resilience of the park system, still in accordance with our mission and strategic Goals described in our newest municipalities, managed by the Community and approved by the Commission, imagine the plan of your parks 3 for the next 10 years, “the statement said.

View of City Park’s Envision Baton Rouge video.