Jean Klock Park, located in Southwest Michigan in Benton Harbor, is being threatened by developers and the city government in Benton Harbor. Those parties are hoping to “grab” a portion of the park’s land as part of the Harbor Shores Community Redevelopment project that would include a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course. The development threatens Jean Klock Park–one of the oldest parks in Michigan–and its unique natural ecosystems including dunes, marshes, and interdunal weatlands.
In addition to a variety of grassroots organizing efforts, the Friends of Jean Klock Park have produced a video highlighting the fight to save the park:
A petition calling on the city of Benton Harbor to preserve the can be signed online. For more information, visit www.savejeanklockpark.org.
