LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- More green space is coming to downtown Louisville.
Mayor Craig Greenberg announced the Trager MicroForest Project at Founder's Square, which is right off 5th Street and Muhammad Ali Boulevard.
The project will create green space and measure the impact of urban greening on people's health and the environment.
Crews will work over the next several weeks to prepare the land. That includes new walkways and an irrigation system.
This fall, the trees that will make up the microforest will be planted.
"This project is taking an existing, but fairly ordinary, design of a pocket park and improving it tremendously," Greenberg said Tuesday. "It's adding much-needed tree canopy to our downtown and our city in an area of our city that needs far more trees and far more green space."
The project is a partnership between the University of Louisville's Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute and Metro Government.
The Trager family pledged $1 million for the project in 2022.
To read more about the MicroForest project, click here.
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