John Ball Park neighborhood collection

Collection

Identifier: Collection 373

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection contains documents from both the John Ball Park Community Association and the John Ball Park Target Area Council with the bulk of the material representing the latter. The two organizations are related, though the Council has the more specific mission of spending federal grant money. The records pertaining to each were found definitively separated. There are organizational records such as correspondence, meeting minutes and by-laws primarily from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, though the newsletters continue to 1991. The two bulkiest and most consistent series are correspondence and meeting minutes/agendas. Other material has been sorted by document type such as “legal documents” and “reports”.

Dates

no date

Biographical / Historical

The neighborhood association for the John Ball Park area is known as the John Ball Park Community Association and has been in existence from the late 1970s to the present.

The John Ball Park Target Area Council was formed in 1977 as a program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Council consisted of fifteen representatives of the neighborhood who had the responsibility for channeling federal grant money into improvement projects. The neighborhood was designated as Bridge Street on the North, Butterworth Street on the South, the C&O Railroad Tracks on the East, and John Ball Park to Park to Valley to Fulton to Indiana on the West.

Extent

2 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The John Ball Park neighborhood is located on the West Side of Grand Rapids, Michigan. This collection includes correspondence, meeting minutes/agendas and other organizational papers of the John Ball Park Community Association and the John Ball Park Target Area Council primarily from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s.