The new city master plan suggests the city acquire underutilized or empty lots for use as short- or long-term pocket parks.

Fort Myers is looking to add more pocket parks on vacant lots, giving the community more places to enjoy the outdoors without ...

As the Parks and Recreation Department works on a long-term plan and the Community Development Department works on the Blueprint Downtown long-term plan, the park fits into both of those.

The pocket parks, also called parklets, provide greenery, bike racks and a place to sit. They are typically no bigger than 6 feet wide and 20 feet long, or 120 square feet.

Planning is under way to create a couple of "pocket parks" in downtown Billings. The Downtown Billings Association hopes to convert an alley off North 29th Street into one pocket park and to ...

Last week I ripped Downtown for its parks, which are nonexistent or inadequate. I may have gone a little easy. I referred to Justice Myron E. Leavitt and Jaycee Community Park as “the real deal ...

Lake Park Mayor Roger Michaud grew up here. The spot where he once washed dishes could become home to high-rise retail and apartments.

It's hard to imagine a great city without great parks. For over 30 years, Matachines de Ciudad Juárez have kept cultural heritage alive through traditional dance ...

Carmel Clay Parks and Recreation officials said the city is improperly siphoning about $12 million from traditional parks and spending it instead on pocket parks, plazas and greenspace in downtown ...