Community Initiatives and Partners
Bronx Pro is committed to community development by using design and the arts to create welcoming, healing environments for residents and the broader community. Across our projects, we thoughtfully develop community and retail spaces with trusted local partners, often investing directly in build-outs and providing design and construction services to lower barriers to entry. Through childcare centers, senior and after-school facilities, and public art initiatives, Bronx Pro helps create opportunity and strengthen neighborhoods across the Bronx.
Hayden Lord Park
Bronx Pro’s latest community art project is the construction of Hayden Lord Park on Andrews Avenue in the Bronx. The purpose of the Hayden Lord Park project is to reimage an underutilized urban space (formally owned by NYCHA) to create a sustainable and educational muralscape for the enjoyment of the Bronx Community. At the heart of the project is the creation of an outdoor art space featuring an organic farm and 60 foot tall, professionally designed art murals. The organic art farm was designed to illustrate the importance of permaculture and sustainable farming in the urban landscape. Inspired by Antoni Gaudi, magnificent mosaic installations will be created by and in collaboration with the local community. Chief amongst of the project’s goals is to engage neighborhood children and adults in the design and construction of the park, so that their artistic visions are incorporated into the landscape of their own community.
Little Scholars Early Development Center I & II
Located at 850 Jennings St, Bronx, New York, the Little Scholars Early Development Center is an environmentally friendly preschool dedicated to cultivating curiosity and the love of learning in early childhood. Little Scholars EDC provides a fresh approach to traditional preschool in a safe and invigorating environment where children have space to grow and thrive.
Little Scholars is also happy to announce the opening of their second site, Little Scholars Early Development Center II located at 1770 Davidson Ave, Bronx, NY, 10453. This new site provides services to children from 6 weeks to 12 years old. Little Scholars #2 is a brand new state of the art facility, created in collaboration with the design teams that built the world renowned schools of Reggio Emilia Italy. This project aims to construct a space for children in which functional and aesthetic identities recount and support a certain precise image of the child: competence, an explorer, equipped with a hundred languages and great abilities.
We encourage you to browse the Little Scholars EDC website to learn more about their cross-curricular approach, farm-fresh and organic meals, excellent teachers, and more. If you believe Little Scholars EDC is the right fit for your child, visit the Admissions page at the link below.
The DreamYard Art Center
The DreamYard Project offers nationally recognized programming across different art forms that include theatre, poetry, dance, visual arts, photography, video, music & audio production, fashion design, and engineering. Programs run after school and on weekends from October to May with summer intensives. Through Open Studio hours, our young artists experiment with new art forms, work on independent projects, and develop their digital skills.
