SHENANDOAH -- For years, a patchy field with overgrown grass and gravel was the view people had when they drove along Main Street into the borough of Shenandoah. Now, that view has been brightened up with a new green space.
Joseph Anczarski Jr. and his parents volunteered their time to create a more welcoming area around the borough's welcome sign.
The Anczarski's are with Downtown Shenandoah, an organization committed to beautifying the borough. Over the past few months, they've been paving, planting, and even came up with the design for the new green space.
"Everyone who walks by says how great of a job we are doing, how nice it looks, and they can't wait to see when it is finished," said Joesph Anczarski Jr.
The green space project is almost complete. Volunteers just have to put in a few benches and plant some more flowers, but the hope is once it is complete, it blossoms into something bigger.
Volunteers want to tackle more blighted and vacant properties in the borough.
Soon, the group Downtown Shenandoah wants to spread the greenery planted here to blighted properties and vacant lots throughout the borough.
A $100,000 donation, from someone who was born and raised in the borough, paid for the new green space.
It only took a few thousand dollars to revamp that first lot, so the remaining money will be used toward future green spaces in Shenandoah.
