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Commerce Center Park Downtown Gets Makeover

Residents spent their lunch hour cleaning up Commerce Center Park in downtown Akron Thursday. (Photo: Yoly Glez M. Heisler)

Residents spent their lunch hour cleaning up Commerce Center Park in downtown Akron  (Photo: Yoly Glez M. Heisler)

 

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Commerce Center Park, which offers a small break of nature in the middle of downtown Akron, received a much-needed facelift Thursday, thanks to a group of community volunteers. Located just south of the United One Building and next to the Main Library — with two regal columns, a small gate and courtyard —  this park likely goes unnoticed by motorists every day, but is an important element of the downtown Akron landscape.

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