Trust for Public Land Receives $1 Million For Park Access Initiative

March 6, 2005

The New York City-based MetLife Foundation has announced a $1 million grant to the Trust for Public Land for the creation of new parks and playgrounds in six cities across the country.

The grant will establish the MetLife Foundation Parks & Playgrounds Fund and support the TPL's Parks for People Initiative, which is working to ensure that everyone — particularly every child — enjoys close-to-home access to a park, playground, or other natural area. The cities scheduled to receive new parks or playgrounds are Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Miami, New York City, and San Francisco.

"With eighty percent of Americans living in cities, and as many as three in four residents without access to a park, the need is great for support to create new parks," said TPL president Will Rogers. "This grant from the MetLife Foundation is a welcome and exciting evolution of our long and successful partnership since 1996, again demonstrating their ongoing commitment to and passion for livable cities."

Subjects Community improvement / development