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Walton Family Foundation Funds Design for Now and the Future

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams
Published November 12, 2020 at 1:35 PM CST
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A rendering of one of the park spaces planned for Bentonville's Quilt of Parks project that was funded through the Design Excellence Program.
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The Walton Family Foundation's Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program has provided grants to three projects this autumn in Springdale, Rogers and Bentonville. Foundation leaders say public space design is a matter of importance now and for the post-pandemic future.

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Kyle Kellams
Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.
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