In 2017, 164 volunteers and multiple community organizations joined to participate in three rounds of our Neighborhood Reborn events on Bettie and Johnston Streets in the Middlebury neighborhood of Akron.
Together with the Bettie and Johnston Street neighbors’ guidance and support we completed the following:
- Assisted with eight owner-occupied exterior home repairs
- Boarded up the vacant building on the corner of Johnston and Bettie
- Provided general landscaping assistance to 29 neighbors
- Installed 17 solar-powered security lights
- Cleaned up four vacant lots and the sidewalk on Corley Street
- Planted 990 flowers
- Removed 11.68 tons of garbage and yard waste from the neighborhood