The Trust for Public Land will launch a community design process with neighbors and various community organizations to generate designs to revitalize Lanier Playground in the Grays Ferry section of South Philadelphia.
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In March 2011, TPL and the State Parks Division protectd 17 acres of privately-owned shoreline within the Lapakahi State Historical Park.
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In 2011, the City of Lawndale purchased a 1.5 acre vacant lot to develop Larch Avenue Park as an additional recreation space for its many residents.
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In 2003, TPL's conservation finance team helped Lehigh County, Pennsylvania get voter approval for a $30 million bond to protect watersheds, wetland, farmlands, and parks.
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In 1986, The Trust for Public Land protected Little Big Horn, which sits at the center of the Crow Nation's 4 million acre reservation.
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The Trust for Public Land assembled 6 key properties totaling 485 acres for this heavily used park in Gwinnett County.
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In March 2005, TPL helped add a crucial segment to the trail: more than a half mile of abandoned rail corridor that connects the Little Rock Millennium Trail to downtown Little Rock's historic Riverfront Park and the dramatic new Clinton Presidential Center and Park.
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Not long ago, the area along the Tensaw River known as Live Oak Landing was on a fast track to development.
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When new technology and economic cutbacks threatened to destroy the oldest continually operating boat building business in the United States in the early 1990s, TPL helped form the Lowell's Boat Shop Trust and transferred the shop to the Custom House Maritime Museum in Newburyport.
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In 1996, Amherst County, the historic City of Lynchburg, and the Commonwealth of Virginia sought help in protecting a mile-long stretch of scenic bluffs along the James River across from Lynchburg's downtown.
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