Take a drive through the entrance of Runway Growers in Dania Beach to see what $10,000 and a little sweat can do for a neighborhood.
Last weekend, a group of Dania Beach Heights Civic Association volunteers “regreened” the area at the Florida East Coast Railway on Fourth Avenue and Stirling Road, a once-drab façade within the first incorporated city in Broward County.
According to Miami Herald reporter Eileen Soler , more than 1600 eco-friendly flora were planted at the site to attract birds and wildlife, and neighbors, to each other.
Soler said the project was funded through a $10,000 grant from Broward Beautiful, a county program that funds landscape and environmental projects for nonprofit groups.
This project, wrote Soler, is also supposed to beautify a one-of-a-kind proposed Broward County route, known as the Dixie Highway Greenway , which will link many of the east cities’ historic main and downtown areas through a multi-purpose trail that starts in Deerfield Beach at Pioneer Park and ends in Hallandale Beach at Bluesten Park.
College Homesites in Dania are just one of the many areas currently enjoying the new foliage.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
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