Parsons, Kansas

Kansas Parson's Downtown Revitalization Project, inclusive of both Public and Private Sector Improvements, includes construction of a new street complete with historically appropriate streetlights, street signs, herringbone brick pavers, trees, parking and landscaping as well as a new restaurant and crafts store on a vacant building site resulting from a tornado. In efforts to Rebuild the City's Lower Income Housing Stock, the community pulled together to create an innovative housing program which would develop fifty-seven new housing units; thirty-three new single-family homes and twenty-four apartment units. Youth Program Enhancements began in May of 1998 when the City purchased a building that formerly housed a Catholic school and converted the facility into a community center with a mission to increase services to Parsons Youth. Acquisition of the building allowed the community to provide new services including: YouthFriends, an organization that provides mentoring to atrisk youth in a public school setting, and the Tiny Tots PreSchool, established to give disadvantaged youth a head start before entering the public school system.

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