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Landmark Sign In City
posted (September 17, 2014)

If you travel, or watch enough TV, you'll surely have noticed the impressive landmark signs in developed countries. Well, now you can see one of those signs right in Belize at the Seashore Children's Park.   It is not quite as gigantic as say, the Hollywood sign in California, but it will serve the same purpose: to enhance the aesthetics of the area and to attract locals and tourists. Mayor Darrell Bradley discussed the impact of this project on the community.

Darrel Bradley, Mayor of Belize City Council

"One of the difficulties with this, is this all came about as a result of us discovering they were going to privatise this area. Residents had brought it to our attention, and through co-operating with myself, city council and residents in this community, we manage to make representations to the land department. We had very active community individuals, Steven Pererra who led the way in terms of making that representation so they had agreed to leave this area as a public space. And we recognise with partnership with the community groups, that if we wanted to be left as community space, then we had to enhance it. The larger idea is, you see have finished Seashore Drive, and we have finished Buttonwood Bay Boulevard. And one of the things is along Seashore drive we did an exercise belt, and that exercise belt runs right into this park and we are enhancing the area. There are trees being planted along the Seashore Drive area to end off in the park. We are working with a budget, so it's not everything that can be done at one time and the community groups are doing things like the benches, BEL with the lights. We are combining budget like that and we expect within a reasonable period of time, we can get this area to look very good."

Estevan Perrera, Resident of Carribean Shores

"It was a tricky project. After I designed it, how I wanted it to look, I contacted several of the contractors in Belize and I finally found a gentleman by the name of Stephen Coleman that was able to pull it off. We sat down for a day or two to design and come up with a concept whereby we could have created a sign that could represent Belize and could be as sturdy as possible that not even a hurricane could damage it. As you can see the sign is constructed from solid concrete, it's reinforced with steel, so the Belizean public of tourists that come by they can actually interact with the sign, they can climb on it, they can sit down on it and they can take photos with the sign."

The park project is expected to be completed in 4 months.

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