Crowdfunding campaign for lakeshore fitness trail begins

The first part of a brand new health path mission in Muskegon will start pending the success of a crowdfunding marketing campaign.

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and the town of Muskegon final week launched a crowdfunding marketing campaign with a objective of elevating $20,000 by May 15. If the objective is met, an identical grant shall be awarded with funds from MEDC’s Public Spaces Community Places program.

This marketing campaign will permit the town and the Beachwood Bluffton Neighborhood Association (BBNA) to start work on a health pod as a part of a health and environmental path alongside the Lakeshore Trail in Muskegon. The first pod shall be stationed on the metropolis’s Beachwood Park, at 3157 Dune St. adjoining to the path.

The pod will accommodate 10 individuals at a time and embrace tools offering upper- and lower-body energy coaching. This consists of pull-up bars, sit-up benches, medication balls, ladders, step-up platforms and health flooring.

“Amenities that enhance entry to group well being and well-being are an vital a part of nice public placemaking,” stated MEDC Senior Vice President of Community Development Michele Wildman. “We are happy to assist and supply sources for this mission by way of our Public Spaces Community Places program.”

Any extra funds raised past the crowdfunding objective shall be used for future health path installations. The general objective of the mission is to have a number of health stations in place alongside a 1.6-mile seashore loop of the Lakeshore Trail.

“The health path mission has lengthy had neighborhood assist, however outside leisure tools is prohibitively costly,” stated Chris Willis, BBNA chair. “This mission is made potential by a partnership with the town of Muskegon for set up and the Public Spaces Community Places matching grant, amplifying each beneficiant donation we obtain.”

Following a profitable marketing campaign, set up of the tools will happen by fall 2022.

The marketing campaign is obtainable by way of Patronicity, a Michigan-based crowdfunding platform.

Contributions by money or test are also accepted and ought to be enclosed in an envelope labeled BBNA Lakeshore Fitness Trail, together with the contributor’s identify and some other needed data, and mailed to the town of Muskegon, 933 Terrace St., Muskegon, MI 49440.