Lowell-Themed bike racks
Traveling by bicycle is a growing transportation alternative. By making Lowell a bicycle-friendly destination, we can encourage cyclists to visit our city. By giving them a welcoming place to lock up their bikes, we can encourage them to stay, eat, and shop, leaving some of their dollars in Lowell to [Read more…]
Lowell Voices
Develop an audio podcast series of the voices of the Lowell community with cooperation of area resources, individuals and their stories. Results will be understanding of individuals in the community, who are working to make their lives and the lives of their community better. They will meet with park rangers and develop a level of [Read more…]
We have selected the Acre community as our community of choice for our current outreach and engagement efforts. Partnering with LTC with access to their “podcast” studio, we will partner with community organizations which have been identified for their mission in the community. From there, we will identify active organization [Read more…]
Lowell Women Together
Someone cuts out a large profile of a woman (from plywood or a strong cardboard?). Then it’s cut into puzzle pieces. People take a piece and paint/color/collage/write on it any way they want (including the color purple somewhere in the design). Then we have a big puzzle putting-together party and assemble. Display it somewhere in [Read more…]
“Lowell Land” Temporary Theme Park
Make Your Own Ice Cream
Make Your Own Mill Girl Doll
An artist or community member builds a large Lowell Dollhouse: model of a boarding house or of a mill. We then come together to have an event where kids can come, make their own mill girl doll, and then place it in the dollhouse or play together with the dolls and dollhouse. It could be [Read more…]
Meditation Flash Mob
"Its intention is to raise awareness of meditation in public, unite people from all backgrounds, cultures and faiths together and send positive intentions out to the world. We come together to celebrate our very real capacity to generate peace, already, in the here and now. This is the peace we [Read more…]
Middle St Al Fresco
Allow sidewalk dining on Middle St across from Fuse Bistro. Build a parklet in front the building to show that the ground floor space is in too good of a location to be wasted as office space. I believe Enterprise Bank owns the building. They can move the offices to vacant upper floors elsewhere in [Read more…]
Missing Tooth Pop-up Business
Create a temporary pop-up business at the gap, or missing tooth, in the block of the Enterprise Bank parking lot fronting Merrimack Street. Maybe work with Merrimack Rep, LHS, and the Greater Lowell Tech to create a 2 story building facade. The ground floor would be retail or restaurant and have rotating local businesses selling [Read more…]