Hello Artists!
Center For Neighborhoods has decided to reopen the Request for Proposals for the PAINT project in the Breckenridge Estates Neighborhood. TARC (Transit Authority of River City) has provided additional funding for this project creating a total budget of $17,500. Since TARC has generously helped to fund this PAINT project, it must somehow incorporate the neighborhood bus stop(s). Please feel free to forward this email to anyone that you think would be interested in developing a proposal.
Request for Proposals Info:
Deadline - Sunday, February 12th at 11:59 PM
TARC Maps of the Neighborhood
http://www.centerforneighborhoods.org/PAINT/BENA/BENAmap2.pdf
http://www.centerforneighborhoods.org/PAINT/BENA/BENAmap.pdf
http://www.centerforneighborhoods.org/PAINT/BENA/BENAmap11x17MannerDaleDetail.pdf
http://www.centerforneighborhoods.org/PAINT/BENA/BENAmap11x17lines.pdf
PAINT Project Requirements:
http://www.centerforneighborhoods.org/PAINT/BENA/BENAmap.pdf
http://www.centerforneighborhoods.org/PAINT/BENA/BENAmap11x17MannerDaleDetail.pdf
http://www.centerforneighborhoods.org/PAINT/BENA/BENAmap11x17lines.pdf
PAINT Project Requirements:
- Focused on a Neighborhood - A district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants, a political ward or precinct. The concept of a neighborhood includes geographic, social, cultural, civic, economic, and historical components.
- Participatory - Marked by, requiring, or involving participation, especially affording the opportunity for individual participation.
- Public - Open to the view of all; existing or conducted in public.
***PAINT stands for Producing Art In Neighborhoods Together, therefore community engagement is an essential aspect of a successful PAINT proposal. More information about the PAINT program is available on Center For Neighborhoods website:http://www.centerforneighborhoods.org/paintprogram.htm
Please contact me with any questions at kates@centerforneighborhoods.org or 320-492-7503 (cell) or 502-589-0343 (office).
Thank you,
Kate Sowada
PAINT Program Assistant
Center For Neighborhoods
610 S. Fourth Street, Suite 701
Louisville, KY 40202
Brief History of the Neighborhood
A brief history of Breckenridge Estates from residents Carole and Charlie Freville.
Our BENA Neighborhood
When we moved into this house some forty years ago, the neighborhood looked quite
different from today's suburban sprawl.
Six Mile Lane was a small country road with very few houses on it. At the comer of
Manner Dale and Six Mile Lane was a stone house, nestled on several acres of plowed
land. Spearmint plants could be seen (and smelled) every spring, covering those acres.
The days they harvested the mint plants, the scents were intoxicating!
The mint was sold to Churchill Downs for the 'world famous' mint juleps at the Derby.
This area is now the site of Manner Pointe Patio Homes and the Hunsinger Lane Baptist
Church.
A block down Six Mile Lane, just before the railroad tracks, was another farm. Every
fall its acreage was covered in pumpkins. Our children loved going over there to pick
pumpkins. They saved their quarters so they could buy more than one. We always had
a dozen pumpkins to carve.
The railroad tracks had no gates then. The bell would frequently get stuck and ring all
night. We would call Southern Railroads to turn it off. The railroad was of large interest,
especially when the steam engines would charge through.
Just beyond the tracks was a farm that planted strawberries every spring. There was a
U-pick business on this farm. We enjoyed watching out our back windows as they
plowed and planted. Then in June, we could walk over and pick their delicious produce.
This is now the site of Westwood Farms. The homestead for this farm still stands today.
It is a large manor-type house with a long driveway, enclosed with trees that bloom in the
spring. In the early days, there were several out buildings and my children were
convinced that they were former slave cabins. Today, the driveway is shorter and
empties into Westwood Farms.
Across from our Welcome Wall on Breckridge Lane and backing up to the curve of
Hunsinger Lane was a large red barn where horses were boarded. Our children often rode
one of our neighbor's horses there. A horse broke out late one evening and was killed by
a car on Breckenridge Lane. That is now the site of Kort Springs.
When we moved in, there were no houses past the first block on Colson Dr.
We thought we were living in the country. But progress was rapid and we quickly had
many new neighbors. Over the years, traffic and noise has increased but it has brought
along the friends and neighbors who are the multicultural faces of this neighborhood.
Carole and Charlie Freville
BENA Memebers
491-2360
