City of Axum Park Usage Up 500% Since October 2010 Renovations

The Center for Research Strategies released a report this May showing that renovations made to Northeast Park Hill’s City of Axum Park, located on MLK Boulevard between Birch and Cherry streets, caused a 500 percent increase in the park’s usage since October 2010. The park was identified as an underutilized community resource in 2007 by local residents through the Denver Department of Environmental Health’s Park Hill Thriving Communities program. The $500,000 renovation – made possible through the voter-approved Better Denver Bond Project and in-kind support from Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado, Park Hill Thriving Communities and LiveWell Colorado – funded a new state-of-the-art playground, covered picnic pavilions with grills, a new basketball court, a paved walkway through the park, a multi-use perimeter trail, chess/games tables, a painted mural and several Ethiopian cultural features as a nod to the park’s namesake, Denver’s Sister City of Axum, Ethiopia. For more information, visit denvergov.org/parksandrec.