Editor's note: Este artículo está traducido al español.

Anyone driving down Maryland Parkway just south of downtown Las Vegas will see Huntridge Circle Park, but they won’t be able to enjoy it.

Residents of the surrounding Huntridge neighborhood want to change that by helping to reopen the long-closed city-owned park. One way they’re hoping to build up the energy is by collaborating with students in the UNLV landscape architecture program to redesign the historic but often rough space.

Third-year students brought posters with detailed renderings to Las Vegas City Hall last week to show how they’d refresh the park, which has been fenced off since 2018 because it had long been a crime magnet.

Kamil Calmese used the extended metaphor of a human body. She named her project “Vitality.”

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