This brief is adapted from Documenter Bréone Dupree, who covered the January Pike Township school board meeting. 📝 Read more about what happened.
Kerry Manders, founder of the KMM Foundation, shared plans for the Crooked Creek Cultural Campus, an 8-acre arts and learning space, planned for the corner of Michigan Road and 62nd Street.
Crooked Creek Cultural Campus
The arts campus will offer after-school activities for students in Pike and Washington Townships.
Board Chair and local musician Richard “Sleepy” Floyd said the center is designed to be a community space that fills gaps.
“There are schools within the 465 loop that do not have arts and music programs,” he said.
The center will be a place where students can attend arts workshops and field trips.
Alonzo Anderson, vice president of the Pike Township school board, said he saw a presentation on the community center a year ago and thought it was a phenomenal idea.
“It’s been a slow rollout because this is a grassroots project,” said Manders. “We want a relationship where the Pike community will support the project to bring it to fruition, but also be among the participants and beneficiaries of the project.”
The KMM Foundation plans to break ground next year.
What’s next?
The next Pike Township school board meeting is 7 p.m., Feb. 12, 6901 Zionsville Rd.
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