Mayors break ground on City of Axum Park renovations

Axum Mayor Ato Hagos Gebrewahid and Denver Mayor Hickenlooper were on hand to break ground on more than $620,000 in improvements to Denver’s City of Axum Park, funded through the Better Denver Bond Program, Capital Improvement Funding and a Park Hill Thriving Communities Grant. The renovations include a new playground, picnic shelter, new basketball court, benches, a concrete promenade and a new irrigation system for the park.

City of Axum Park is named for the Ethiopian city that became Denver’s ninth Sister City in 1993. In 1995 then Mayor Wellington Webb headed a delegation to Axum resulting in a street in that city being named “Denver Street.”

Mayors Hickenlooper and Gebrewahid exchanged gifts and enjoyed an Ethiopian meal with members of the community who came to celebrate the park’s upgrade.

Axum Park is located at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Cherry Street in Denver. Visit Denver Sister Cities International for more information about all of Denver’s sister cities.

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