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Ken Bowers

Ken Bowers

Deputy Planning & Development Director for the City of Raleigh, AICP, and a guest on the Your City, Answered podcast.

Sep 3, 2026

3:05
which is now moving forward,
3:06
funded in the Parks Bond and also partly by the same federal grant that is funding this work on the Strollway, and that's called the South Park Heritage Trail.
3:13
It's a loop as opposed to a linear trail like the Strollway is supposed to be, but it specifically targets the old Third Ward South Park neighborhood, which, of course, includes a lot of important history of Black Raleigh, Shaw University.
3:28
John Chavis Memorial Park.
3:30
Many prominent citizens live there.
3:32
Lots of things happen there.
3:34
So there's a lot to memorialize.
4:17
Sure.

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