Midtown Park is a one acre minipark at South Kings Drive and Pearl Park Way in
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ...
. Opened in the spring of 2012, it contains stonework and shade trees surrounding a rectangular lawn and is suitable for weddings as well as performance art and other public events.
[''The Charlotte Observer'': New park to open soon in Midtown, by Karen Sullivan, January 29, 2012]
/ref> The park features several sculptures, including a seven foot diameter spherical metallic piece called the ''Braille Music Box'' by artists Po Shu Wang and Louise Bertelsen. A unique feature of the sculpture is that it can be enjoyed by the sight-impaired. It contains a mechanism which can translate Braille
Braille (Pronounced: ) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, including people who are Blindness, blind, Deafblindness, deafblind or who have low vision. It can be read either on Paper embossing, embossed paper ...
letters into musical notes, and visitors can move the music box within the sculpture to hear this unique music.Visual Art for the Visually Impaired
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The Little Sugar Creek Greenway
Little Sugar Creek Greenway is a linear park and stream restoration project in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. When completed it will consist of twenty miles of trails and paved walkways running from Cordelia Park just north of uptown Charlo ...
runs along the western edge of the park and is connected to it by a formal stairway. According to Gwen Cook of Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation, Midtown Park "... is a showpiece along the greenway."[
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Photographs of Midtown Park
Parks in Charlotte, North Carolina