The Revitalize San Pedro Partnership is excited to release its Request for Proposals for the San Pedro Corridor Creative Placemaking Contest. San Pedro Corridor community members are invited to submit ideas for celebrating and enhancing the Corridor via inexpensive, small-scale placemaking projects. Placemaking can be used to improve all the spaces that comprise gathering places within a community – its streets, sidewalks, parks, buildings, and other public spaces – so they invite greater interaction between people and foster healthier, more social, and economically viable communities. Placemaking project examples include murals (on walls, streets, utility boxes, etc.), pop-up parks, moveable sidewalk seating, sculptures, and much more. Projects should be completed for $2,500 or less and by utilizing volunteers. The top three proposals will be awarded gift certificates to local businesses, and the first-place proposal will be completed by December 31, 2022.
Please contact RSPP Project Leader Cynthia Serna for additional information or questions: revitalizesanpedro@gmail.com, (505) 453-6499.
UPDATE: The deadline for submitting a proposal to the contest has been extended! Applications are now due Wednesday, August 24. Please see the revised contest timeline below:
- Aug. 1, 2022: Request for Proposals and applications open.
- Aug. 24, 2022: Applications must be submitted online OR emailed to Revitalizesanpedro@gmail.com, with the subject line “San Pedro Creative Placemaking Contest” OR mailed to San Pedro Creative Placemaking Contest, c/o MHNA, Box 311, 1933 San Mateo NE, Albuquerque NM 87110, postmarked no later than 11:59pm, Wednesday, August 24, 2022.
- Aug. 30-31: RSPP Project Leads follow up on any application questions/ clarifications with applicants.
- Sept. 1, 2022: Applications will be assessed by a Review Panel comprised of representatives from relevant City offices, local artists and arts organizations, RSPP business partners, and the four connected neighborhood associations.
- Sept. 2 – Sept. 5: Up to six (6) finalists will be posted to the Revitalize San Pedro Facebook page and community members will be asked to anonymously rank the projects by preference between September 2 - 5, 2022. Public input will be taken into consideration in the final selection of winning projects.
- Sept. 9, 2022: Contest selection of First, Second and Third place projects will be publicly announced via press release.
- Dec. 31, 2022: The selected project is expected to be completed.