Wellen Park’s builder partners constructed a dozen mini-cottages in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Wellen donates $1 to Habitat for every vote visitors cast for a cottage. Later in the spring, cottages will be auctioned off to benefit the cause, which will in turn donate them to families in need. Meanwhile, children like Aaron are enjoying them in Downtown Wellen.
Wellen Park President Rick Severance pauses to speak to reporters in front of a Laura Pommier’s “Display of Sunny Days” mural. Severance says he plans to build a swing in front of the mural, making it even more attractive for selfies.
{div}One of the features of Downtown Wellen is a space called The Yard. At a recent Model Home Showcase, food vendors served visitors. The businesses will soon be open full-time.{/div}
The streets of Downtown Wellen are fairly quiet except for the coming and going of construction workers. But residents of Wellen Park and people who live through out the region have already begun to find reasons to visit the brand new community center.
Rick Severance said he designed the downtown layout around this heritage live oak tree, which was moved from about a mile away. The tree and the spash park fountain are a focal point of Downtown Wellen’s open space.
The Downtown Wellen Mural Project will decorate several downtown locations with the natural beauty of Florida. Miami muralist Ivan Roque’s “Ode to Florida” greets motorists and pedestrians at Downtown Wellen’s gateway along Wellen Park Boulevard.
Downtown Wellen’s Natural Play is what Rick Severance calls an “anti-Crayola colors” organic playground where parents and kids are free to use their imaginations.
Downtown Wellen’s first major event, the Model Home Showcase, drew a crowd of 2,000 to explore and play on the Great Lawn.
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Wellen Park President Rick Severance pauses to speak to reporters in front of a Laura Pommier’s “Display of Sunny Days” mural. Severance says he plans to build a swing in front of the mural, making it even more attractive for selfies.
SUN PHOTO BY CHRIS PORTER
Downtown Wellen’s first weekly Friday Night Concert, on the lawn in front of Solis Hall, attracted a full house of 500.
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{div}One of the features of Downtown Wellen is a space called The Yard. At a recent Model Home Showcase, food vendors served visitors. The businesses will soon be open full-time.{/div}
SIMO AHMADI PHOTO PROVIDED
The streets of Downtown Wellen are fairly quiet except for the coming and going of construction workers. But residents of Wellen Park and people who live through out the region have already begun to find reasons to visit the brand new community center.
SUN PHOTO BY CHRIS TILLEY
Rick Severance said he designed the downtown layout around this heritage live oak tree, which was moved from about a mile away. The tree and the spash park fountain are a focal point of Downtown Wellen’s open space.
SUN PHOTO BY CHRIS TILLEY
The Downtown Wellen Mural Project will decorate several downtown locations with the natural beauty of Florida. Miami muralist Ivan Roque’s “Ode to Florida” greets motorists and pedestrians at Downtown Wellen’s gateway along Wellen Park Boulevard.
SIMO AHMADI PHOTO PROVIDED
Downtown Wellen’s Natural Play is what Rick Severance calls an “anti-Crayola colors” organic playground where parents and kids are free to use their imaginations.
SUN PHOTO BY SUE WADE
Downtown Wellen Park.
SUN PHOTO BY CHRIS TILLEY
Apartments soon to open across the street from Downtown Wellen Park.
WELLEN PARK – Joggers, cyclists, grandparents and kids have already discovered the 3-mile walking trail and playgrounds of a lakeside downtown that’s risen in Wellen Park.
Unperturbed by a plastic guard owl on its dock, anhingas have already staked out the downtown’s 80-acre, stocked Grand Lake.
Wellen Park’s builder partners constructed a dozen mini-cottages in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Wellen donates $1 to Habitat for every vote visitors cast for a cottage. Later in the spring, cottages will be auctioned off to benefit the cause, which will in turn donate them to families in need. Meanwhile, children like Aaron are enjoying them in Downtown Wellen.
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