Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing Park in LaVilla is shown under construction in March 2024. | Jacksonville Daily Record
Published on May 16, 2024 at 3:09 pm
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A ribbon-cutting is scheduled June 27 for Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing Park in LaVilla, Downtown Investment Authority CEO Lori Boyer told the DIA board Wednesday.
The park at Lee and Adams street has been under construction for three years. It includes a performance stage, a restored shotgun house and a sloping lawn bordered by concrete letters spelling out the song’s name.
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The park honors the song written in the early 1900s by brothers and Jacksonville natives James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson, and was designed by landscape architect Walter Hood of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California.
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