Lowe’s Companies, Inc., will tackle five Charlotte-area community projects as part of the Lowe’s Hometowns program.
That five-year, $100 million initiative will select 100 signature, community-nominated impact projects each year through 2026.
This year’s selected projects span 40 states and the District of Columbia and aim to restore and revitalize neighborhood housing, parks, community centers and more. Recipients include 31 community centers, 17 shelters, 10 parks or outdoor spaces, nine safe or affordable housing accommodations and nine schools, among others.
“We’re excited to continue improving hometowns across the country by building on our longstanding commitment to serving the communities where we live and work,” Marvin Ellison, Lowe’s chairman and CEO, said.
The Mooresville-based retailer wants to address urgent needs in communities, while making hometowns better for all.
It will invest $500,000 into signature projects in the Charlotte market. Local recipients are:
- Do Greater Charlotte, which facilitates exposure and access to creativity, technology and entrepreneurship. That program is moving to a full-functioning space, including building out multiple studios. That includes a full-service tech lab with equipment tools and tables. Additional work on the kitchen and landscaping are planned.
- Hope Haven is a therapeutic community for men, women and families in early recovery from substance use. The organization occupies a former Holiday Inn complex built in the 1960s. Its project looks to renovate a 6,600-square-foot conference center that has fallen into despair with new flooring and ceiling tiles, drywall repair, fresh paint, LED lighting and updated restrooms. The team hopes to also purchase audio/video equipment to allow for remote sessions and recorded events as well as new furniture.
- Roof Above plans to add an outdoor gathering space at its permanent supportive housing community, which provides shelter for 88 people experiencing homelessness. It looks to transform the space’s old pool area, which has been filled in, into a gathering space for informal and formal community-building activities.
- Town of Mooresville Parks and Recreation and Public Arts Commission will add a 2,200-square-foot mural by a local muralist as part of efforts to increase appreciation for the arts and artists.
- Rocky River Elementary School will add a sidewalk and resurface its playground with a rubberized surface. The school served approximately 600 children in pre-K through third grade in Mooresville.
Another 1,700 smaller, community-impact projects will be selected annually through Lowe’s stores across the country.
To read more about the Lowe’s Hometowns projects, click here.
Copyright: Charlotte Business Journal
