← Lighting Installations

Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

About the Project

GrowHouse Design + Development Group will activate Malcolm X Boulevard – particularly around the Fulton Park Plaza – with solar-powered lighting, illuminated wayfinding signage, and digital storytelling elements that celebrate Black history and highlight local businesses in Bed-Stuy. The goal of the project is to expand visibility for an underinvested commercial corridor in the neighborhood, and connect residents and visitors to the corridor’s rich array of businesses and cultural destinations.

This project builds on the Black History + Heritage Corridor piloted in Flatbush in 2024 with the Local Center.

Team

GrowHouse Community Design + Development Group uses the intersections of urban planning, design, storytelling and technology to fight displacement. They build community wealth by allowing young Black creatives and their allies to become developers of our own neighborhood through collective ownership of artistic production and a portfolio of neighborhood real estate and land, businesses, and cultural institutions.

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Shanna Sabio
GrowHouse Community Design + Development Group
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Warner Sabio
GrowHouse Community Design + Development Group

Phillips Lytle LLP is providing legal support across the project teams.

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Molly Brennan
Phillips Lytle
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Daniel Krupa
Phillips Lytle
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Elizabeth P. LoPreiato
Phillips Lytle

Support

The Local Center is made possible with support from the Charles H. Revson Foundation, Kornfeld Foundation, and Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Local Center is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Our programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.  

Our partners’ installations are made possible with funding from the NYC Department of Small Business Services’ Public Realm Grant.

To learn more about supporting the Local Center, please contact Katherine Sacco, katherine@urbandesignforum.org and Lauren Nye, lauren.n@anhd.org.

Image Credit: Cameron Blaylock