The City of Port Huron has been recognized as a 2024 Project Play Champion by the non-profit organization, Aspen Institute, in recognition of the city’s 16th Street Park and its ongoing redesign.
16th Street Free Park is recognized with this honor because the free play elements align with Project Play’s eight strategies to enhance accessibility and improve quality in youth sports. Renovations at 16th Street Free Play Park will include basketball court repair work, a shortened football field, soccer field, non-motorized nature trail, challenge course, volleyball court, and a 40-yard dash track, in addition to the new wiffle ball field that opened in late 2022.
The park’s overhaul was made possible through the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Spark Grant and the generous donations of the Stebbins Family Fund and the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation.
The Aspen Institute’s Project Play initiative is a community of more than 20,000 organizations and leaders building healthy children through sports. Each year, the Project Play Champions program recognizes local and regional organizations that are taking new and meaningful actions consistent with the Project Play framework.
