More Street Signs Changing

The new "Mitte Cultural District" street signs

By Diego Garcia III | Editor of The Brownsville Beacon

 For those of you who frequent the downtown area, you might have noticed a few new street signs around Washington Park.

 Instead of the usual green street signs, new orange colored signs bearing the logo of the Mitte Cultural District surround the Washington Park area. The new signs went up between East Sixth and East Seventh Streets and East Jefferson, Adams, and Washington Streets.

 A phone call to the city engineering offices late last week confirmed the signs were from the Mitte Cultural District. The young lady on the other side of the phone informed me the cultural district paid the tab for the new signs and the traffic department put them up.

 From the Mitte Cultural District's website:
The Mitte Cultural District was the vision of the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation when they provided funding for the Dean Porter Park restoration in 1998. They recognized that the area surrounding Dean Porter Park was home to most of the city's cultural organizations and by designating this area a "Cultural District," it would provide the impetus to promote and enhance historical, cultural, educational and family activities.

For more information on the Mitte Cultural District, as well as being able to see their logoo more clearly than the picture I took when the sun was going down this evening, feel free to visit their webpage.

mitteculturaldistrict.org

Comments

  1. AnonymousDecember 10, 2019 at 2:19 PM

    I was wondering how they were funded. thanks for the info.

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