Neighborhood Garden Projects

A very special thank you to all the volunteers that came out this morning to help plant flowers on the Sixth Street Bridge and weed the Riverside Median. Projects like this can not be maintained without your help and we are so lucky to have amazing and generous volunteers in Slatterly Park. Also a very …

2016 Slatterly Park Community Garden Plots

Community Garden Plots are now available for signup! 2016 Pricing: (1) 8×10 plot $10 Each additional plot is $5 Note: Each of the (6) larger 16 foot x 20 foot quadrants boxed in are divided into (4) 8×10 plots Instructions for Garden plot rental: Select a plot from remaining plots: Slatterly 2016 Plot assignments View Garden …

6th Street Bridge – Ribbon Cutting

DELAYED UNTIL 100% COMPLETE The Ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for Tuesday November 17th has been cancelled, and a new date will be announced when the bridge is completed. Tuesday November 17 4:15pm 6th Street Bridge The Public is invited to attend the 6th Street Bridge ribbon cutting ceremony for the bridge crossing over Bear Creek, which …

SAVE the Community Garden

Update: The gardens have been saved, see some weeds please pull them 🙂 The Slatterly Park neighborhood association is considering taking over the Slatterly Park community garden from the Rochester Area Foundation (which we realize is a little late in the planting season), however we are asking for volunteers to help save the Slatts community garden.  We have set a work …

Boulevard Tree Planting May 2

Volunteers needed to help plant 200 boulevard trees in the Slatterly Park & Sunnyside Neighborhoods, thanks to RNeighbors –  RNeighborWoods program to promote and work with our City Forester to plant boulevard trees in our neighborhoods.  These boulevard trees are in addition to the (40) boulevard trees Slatterly Park  planted this past weekend! Saturday May 2 …

Sixth Street Bridge

For access to plans, elevations and details of the Sixth Street SE Bridge replacement project follow the link, and click on Project Files in the lower left hand column of the webpage.  The bridge will have decorative rails, planters and historic lighting that was collaboratively selected by the Slatterly Park 6th Street Bridge Committee, who worked …

6th Street Bridge Closure

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Re: The Reconstruction of 6th Street SE. Bridge at Bear Creek On Monday updated April 13, 2015 reconstruction work of the 6th Street SE Bridge at Bear Creek will begin.  The bridge will be removed and reconstructed.  6th Street SE will be closed to all though traffic, vehicles and pedestrians, between 8th …

Third Ave Redevelopment Project – update

The Third Ave Development dubbed “The Buckeye”  will be on tonight’s City Council meeting agenda if anyone is interested in learning more about the project.   The project has went through initial and final approval from the City Planning Zoning Commission, and a first round of City Council approval , and is going back to City Council …