The newly renovated Elliott Park is open!
Improvements include the restored field house, picnic facilities, walking paths and sprayground. The park restoration is several years in the making. In 2020, Olmsted Parks Conservancy worked with park neighbors and stakeholders, including ElderServe, the Louisville Gators youth football league and other community organizations and park regulars to create a community-informed vision for Elliott Park’s future. The Conservancy then worked with Taylor Siefker Williams and Gresham Smith to formalize the Master Plan for the park.
Derek Pressley is a longtime resident of Russell and one of Elliott Park’s biggest fans. When Olmsted Parks Conservancy’s Director of Advocacy and Outreach Sarah Wolff began reaching out to park users to learn how they would reimagine the space, Derek was one of the first to help. He became a mentor during the planning process.
“This is a place you bring your kids, or your mother and father,” Pressley said. “This is our village. We’re going to take care of our village.”
Funding for the Elliott Park restoration comes from Olmsted Parks Conservancy, city budget allocations and the American Rescue Plan. Olmsted Parks Conservancy raised $725,000 from local donors, including the James Graham Brown Foundation and LDG Development. The City of Louisville matched the Conservancy’s investment with a $650,000 capital allocation in Mayor Fischer’s fiscal year 2022 budget. Mayor Fischer then allocated another $500,000 in American Rescue Plan funding and in 2023 Metro Council approved, at Mayor Greenberg’s recommendation, another $1.1 million to complete the project. Elliott Park is located two blocks from the new West Louisville Norton Hospital and Goodwill Opportunity Campus.
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