The Payne Phalen Pocket Park Project is a neighborhood beautification project focused on pocket parks. Project Created by the ESNDC CLI team 2012-13, DBCC Support, many resident volunteers & local businesses.
Our Manifesto: (written by Rebecca Welty)
Everywhere there are green spaces within a city. In Eastside St. Paul, they abound due to vacant lots and odd shape plots, so let’s turn this unforeseen situation into unparalleled beautification.
Let’s utilize Eastside’s unique mixture of talents, races and educations, and turn those empty bits and pieces of land into community gardens, sculpture gardens, dog parks, tiny playgrounds, gentle commons, and flower beds. Let’s dot our important watershed with “pocket parks.”
Imagine a future when you say, “I’m from Eastside” and the name evokes images of a rural, inner city lifestyle and all because once, when we had the opportunity, we developed and nurtured these small, verdant gems.