CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A one-of-a-kind park is coming to Cedar Rapids.

The Big Bang Foundation, a Cedar Rapids based nonprofit, is building an AI Micro Park at 605 15th St SE in the Wellington Heights neighborhood. “The Big Bang Foundation, we first formed in 2016,” says Chuck Crawley, a co-founder of the Big Bang Foundation. “We were a group of hip hop artists in the Cedar Rapids area and we wanted to combat gun violence with books.”

Now, Chuck Crawley, Jorel Robinson and Antonio Chalmers are using their combined experiences and skills to create something new for Cedar Rapids. “Chuck is an expert on real estate. Jorel is an expert on AI, and I’m an expert on music,” says Chalmers. “And when we bring those things together and we think about the community, which is what the Big Bang

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