Citizens employees and partners will donate two days of volunteer effort and an estimated $450,000 in renovations for the regional park destination this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend.
INDIANAPOLIS – Citizens Energy Group and a coalition of partners are working to renovate the public park facilities of Indianapolis World Sports Park this week as part of the 18th annual Sharing The Dream project. Sharing The Dream is a multi-day community service project honoring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. which gives Citizens employees a chance to serve Central Indiana neighborhoods. More than 200 employee volunteers will collectively donate hundreds of working hours on Thursday and Friday. Citizens Energy Group convenes a group of more than 30 partners who have contributed $450,000 in funds or in-kind donations to upgrade the facilities’ buildings and equipment.
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“This event represents a remarkable kind of public‑private collaboration—one that truly reaches people across our community,” said Citizens President & CEO Jeffrey Harrison while taking part in the volunteer work. “We thank Indy Parks and The Parks Alliance of Indianapolis for their coordination on this yearly tradition. Our employees are eager to pitch in, our partners are enthusiastic about supporting the effort, and we’re confident that park visitors will feel the benefits of these improvements for many years.”
Indy World Sports Park is seeing improvements throughout its property, including the cleaning and painting of all spaces; scoping, cleaning, and repairing all sewer lines leaving the building; servicing all HVAC equipment; organizing major storage areas; servicing all doors and locks; servicing all water faucets and flush valves; replacing light fixtures with new LED lighting fixtures; installing new murals; replacing old flooring; upgrading kitchen prep area; restoring an existing fire place; repairing down spouts; repairing plugs and switches; and installing new AV equipment, new blinds, new ceilings, new fans, and new kitchen appliances.
About "Sharing the Dream":
Sharing the Dream is an annual service project, engaging Citizens Energy Group employees and their partner vendors, and honoring the legacy of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the past 18 years of the program, Citizens and its partners have donated more than $4.75 million during Sharing the Dream projects for improvements to various Indy Parks facilities, including Watkins Park Family Center; Frederick Douglass Park Family Center, golf course clubhouse, and pool house; Brookside Park Family Center; Martin Luther King, Jr. Park pool and bathhouse; Pride Park Community Center; Eagle Creek Hide-A-Way; Perry Park’s Ice Arena; Thatcher Park; Krannert Park; Garfield Park; Riverside Park; Ellenberger Park; Stanley Strader Park; and Municipal Gardens.
About This Year’s Partners:
Citizens Energy Group thanks its many partners for their efforts to make Sharing the Dream a successful event this year, especially The Parks Alliance of Indianapolis, Mitsch Design, Peine Engineering, Powers & Sons Construction Company, and SSI Services, LLC. Other partners include: AAA Roofing; A.G. Maas; All Star Garage Door; Bowen Engineering; Acoustics Plus; GreatWater 360 Auto Care; POX Premier Office Experts; R & M Electric; Refined Restoration; Commercial Trade Source; Denny Companies; Energy Plus Credit Union; Continental Serves; Grainger; Greene’s Auto & Truck Services (Fleet Service Solutions); Indy Excavating & Utilities; Indiana Reclamation Excavating (IRE); Mainscape; Martin Restoration, McGath Concrete; Mohawk Group; Solace Risk Management; Nishida Services; Protection Plus; CVR; Superior Carpet; Connor Fine Painting; Wagner Signs; and Miller Pipeline.
About Citizens Energy Group
Citizens Energy Group provides safe and reliable utility services to about 900,000 people in the Indianapolis area. Citizens operates its utilities for the benefit of customers and the community.
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