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BACKGROUND: The Columbus area Lowe's Home Improvement Stores along with community affairs coordinator Doug Brownfield and the national award-winning Lowe's Heroes program have a strong history of giving back to the Columbus community and a longstanding partnership with Keep Columbus Beautiful. This resolution acknowledges and congratulates the Columbus area Lowe's Home Improvement Stores for the special relationship they maintain with the City of Columbus.
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To acknowledge and congratulate the Columbus area Lowe's Home Improvement Stores for the special relationship they maintain with the city of Columbus.
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WHEREAS, Mayor Michael B. Coleman stated in his 2012 State of the City address that the Parsons Avenue area is primed for revitalization and the City is seeking champions to step up and support efforts to turn the historic area away from some of the negative forces that plague it so that it can reap the full benefit of the Parsons Avenue Area Vision Plan; and
WHEREAS, the plan includes the extraordinary multi-million-dollar expansion of nationally renowned Nationwide Children's Hospital on the north and the planned 3.2 million dollar investment by the city of Columbus to re-develop the southern portion of the Avenue by 2013; and
WHEREAS, this year, Lowe's made it possible for communities and programs all over the United States to share in a million-dollar grant made to Keep America Beautiful for application by its affiliates; and
WHEREAS, the city's own Department of Public Service, Keep Columbus Beautiful program in concert with Merion Village, the other South Side neighborhoods and the Parsons Avenue Merchants Association applied for and received a Lowe's community improvement grant of $20,000 to expand and support Plant Pride On Parsons, an on-going award-winning community greening project initiated in 2010 involving the addition of flowers, art and shrubs and reducing blight such as litter and graffiti; and
WHEREA...
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