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Main Street and students install metal tree grates as part of downtown Boone streetscape project
Summary
Main Street representatives described a student-driven project installing metal tree grates at 32 downtown tree locations, funded by hotel-motel and local donations and installed with Public Works support.
Kelly Mollager of Main Street presented the organization’s second downtown Boone project: a set of metal tree grates designed and fabricated with local students and partners.
The project, Mollager said, grew from a desire to replace mulch pits that business owners had complained about. “We said, how can we solve this problem by doing something else? And so the tree grates are the answer to the mulch making a mess downtown for the business owners,” Mollager said.
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