Resilient Ludington Street is Escanaba’s entry for MML’s Bridge Builders Main Street Microgrants Competition, where four winning projects will receive $5,000 to engage locally owned businesses and artists in creating new public space improvements, art installations, cultural events, and more to increase visibility for local businesses and bring people back to downtowns and commercial corridors this summer and fall.
This program is intended to build bridges across the divides created by race, class, age, and more. The voting process is used to gauge public excitement and support for projects.
Resilient Ludington Street will feature a streetscape placemaking project featuring pedestrian friendly improvements from café seating to street side planters, integrated community art, music, and recreational events. Local vendors, artists, eateries, and more will come together, showcasing the resiliency of our local businesses, increasing foot traffic, and creating opportunities.
As the City of Escanaba plans to complete phased upgrades of their sewer and waterlines, it is time to re-imagine what the Ludington streetscape could become; encouraging the community to breathe new life into its downtown. A visioning charrette (public open house) will encourage the community to imagine the future of the Ludington Street
corridor.
Supporters can vote once per day until July 16th at:
https://mmlfoundation.org/grants/resilient-ludington-street/
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