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Rosa Parks Square, the largest green space in Downtown Macon, has been a staple in our community for decades. The space was named in honor of “the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” under Mayor C. Jack Ellis’ administration, and under Mayor Robert Reichert’s administration, the park in front of City Hall was doubled in size. MACON, Ga. — After nearly five years, the Friends of Rosa Parks Square Board may finally see their plans come to fruition for an enhanced park to pay tribute to Civil Rights leaders. After nearly five years, the Friends of Rosa Parks Square Board may finally see their plans come to fruition for an enhanced park to pay tribute to Civil Rights leaders. Thursday, the committee celebrated the county’s $1.5 million addition to the construction fund that currently has about a million dollars from the Urban Development Authority’s MACON, Ga. — On Tuesday, Macon-Bibb commissioners will vote to approve a $2.5 million project to renovate Rosa Parks Square in downtown Macon. Google "Rosa Parks" for more information. This park is very pet friendly. In fact there are stations set up where you can deposit your doggy's droppings, give them water, etc. This is a great area to enjoy an event; right in front of Macon City Hall. There are many restaurants and pubs in the local area to choose from. Bring lawn chairs. After years of delays, the green space across from the Macon-Bibb County Government Center is now on its way to becoming a more enhanced passive park complete with picnic tables, a stage, a memorial wall, more trees, and benches. Rosa Parks Square was originally established in 1978 by the Urban Development Authority as Macon Civic Plaza. Macon (CORRECTION: The headline on this story has been updated. The original headline said the board received an additional $2.5 million.) After nearly five years, the Friends of Rosa Parks Square The Macon City Council established Rosa Parks Square in 2005 after Mayor Ellis attended Parks’ funeral the year before. Ellis spoke to her family, who gave permission to dedicate the park across A proposal to enlarge and improve the park across the street from Macon City Hall is quickly running into trouble -- not for its physical changes, but for the suggestion of renaming Rosa Parks Nearly 20 years after the 2005 designation of Rosa Parks Square across from City Hall, and about a decade since a Macon Action Plan design was approved, $1.5 million from the county’s general "I look at it and admire that we have a park for Rosa Parks in Macon. I think that's a great honor to her, and a great honor to Macon," Malone said. She walks through the park between work and the The Macon-Bibb County Urban Development Authority and architects met with residents Thursday to discuss improvements and redesign suggestions for Rosa Parks Square. Rosa Parks Square Despite heightened cultural and civic importance to the citizens of Macon, Rosa Parks Square stands today as an underutilized and underappreciated urban landscape. HGOR led a diverse set of stakeholders in a process to define significant improvements and creation of place - all wh In a last minute add to Tuesday’s agenda, the Macon-Bibb County Commission invested $2.4 million to preserve public spaces at Rosa Parks Square and save nearly 10 acres in north Macon from a planned housing development near Wesleyan Woods. Nearly 20 years after the 2005 designation of Rosa Parks Square across from City Hall, and Sixty-one years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus, a handful of people gathered in downtown Macon at the park bearing her name. Downtown Macon’s Rosa Parks Square was filled with at least a hundred attendees Saturday to celebrate Parks and reflect upon her legacy. “Freedom in the Park,” which took place on what would The COVID-19 pandemic nearly killed plans for Macon-Bibb County’s first boutique hotel, but a recently signed bond agreement should save the project and also help fund pending improvements to Rosa Parks Square. Mayor Robert Reichert and county commissioners agreed last week to back $23 million dollars in bonds through an agreement with the Urban Development Macon's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission hosted a wreath laying ceremony Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, to honor Rosa Parks sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Civil Rights movement. Mercer University president William Underwood ordered Civil Rights mural featuring Rosa Parks, Sam Oni, Colin Kaepernick, painted over in Macon, Georgia. Professors, students criticize decision. An American civil-rights activist, born in Tuskegee, Alabama as Rosa Louise McCauley. A seamstress and long-time member of the Montgomery, Alabama chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), her December 1, 1955, arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a municipal bus to a white man sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.
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