Employees of Citizens Energy Group, a company that annually selects an Indianapolis (Ind.) Park Department facility to refurbish as a service project to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, went to the city’s nine-hole Frederick Douglass Park Golf Course to renovate its clubhouse with new carpet, light fixtures and furniture. The company plans to have its employees return in the spring for beautification projects on the rest of the property.
The clubhouse at Frederick Douglass Park Golf Course has a new look, Fox 59 of Indianapolis, Ind. reported, after hundreds of employees from Citizens Energy Group volunteered for a service project at the Indianapolis course on January 20, to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The nine-hole Douglass Park course, which opened in 1926, is one of the few courses across the U.S. named after an African-American.
Employees from Citizens Energy Group renovated the space with new carpet, light fixtures and furniture, Fox59 reported. The work was done as part of Citizen Energy’s Sharing the Dream project. Each year, the company chooses an Indianapolis Park Department facility to refurbish.
The golf course’s operators showed off the transformed space with an open house, Fox59 reported. In the spring, Citizens will return and begin its beautification work outside at the Douglass Park course.
“It’s going to be a wild moment when they come in those doors. When they come in here and see all the changes that have been made, they’re going to say, ‘Wow,'” Glenn Bradley, Douglass Park GC’s Supervisor, told Fox 59.
The improvements were a long time coming, Bradley added. “I don’t believe we’ve had a facelift in a number of years, but this came right on time,” he said. “I believe the golf community is going to be excited about what the Citizens Group has done here today.”
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