Music legend Lionel Richie helps open Hello Park in Tuskegee

Hello Park is located next to Tuskegee University.

The park was completed as a part of Lowe’s Hometowns, the company’s community impact program. Lowe’s leaders, as well as leaders from the Central Alabama Community Foundation and Points of Light were on hand for the ceremony.

The park was selected as one of 100 community revitalization projects in 2023 through Lowe’s Hometowns.

 

More than nine months in the making, the park will serve as a gathering space for community members to connect and be inspired by nature.

Richie says that Hello Park is the perfect destination for people to come and realize they can start from a very small town and end up affecting the whole world.

“This is a place where legacies have been made, and history has been made,” Richie said. “Take this time to sit and understand that Booker T. Washington went through those gates and the world will now come to see what the heck Hello Park is all about that I’ve been talking about for the last year.”