Amazon Founder’s Group Donating $30M to Little Rock to Develop Downtown Park

Officials hail $30 million grant to fund future downtown Little Rock park from group founded by Jeff Bezos | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Officials in Little Rock on Tuesday celebrated a $30 million award from an organization founded by Jeff Bezos that will support the development of a new downtown park.

Amazon founder’s group donating $30M to Little Rock to develop downtown park

An artist's rendering of the planned 30 Crossing Park project by the architecture firm Sasaki (Courtesy of the city of Little Rock)A charity launched by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is giving $30 million to Little Rock to develop a 23-acre park downtown, city officials announced Tuesday. The funding from the Bezos Earth Fund’s Greening America’s Cities Program will go toward the creation of 30 Crossing Park. The park will be located in a vacant are…

SLIDESHOW: Little Rock gets Bezos bucks for planned park

Bezos Earth Fund donated $30 million to the city of Little Rock for construction of the 30 Crossing Park, an ambitious public gathering space planned for downtown.