By Tricia Vance
Lumina News
Two of the newest parks in New Hanover County aren’t expansive green spaces, but small urban plots attached to the Cape Fear Museum and the main public library downtown. Both are being developed with money from the county’s share of the $35.5 million green space bond voters approved in 2006.
The idea behind the small parks is to enhance and expand the mission of the institutions they complement.
The park at the Cape Fear Museum is set to open late next month. It will serve as a free outdoor, interactive exhibit space as well as a public park.
“The programs in the park will always be free,” museum director Sheryl Mays said. “One thing we won’t have out there is a fence.”
The bond issue provided $500,000 for the project, and the Cape Fear Museum Associates raised another $73,000 in private and grant funding, exhibits manager Adrienne Garwood said.
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