Remember back in March when Tim Cooney, BSBA’14, was crowdsourcing his idea to turn empty lots into community basketball courts? His goal was to raise $10,000.  Through the Rally St. Louis-sponsored competition, he raised $13,000.  Now the ball is in City Hall’s court…they’re looking for an empty lot for Project Blacktop’s first court, according to this report on KSDK-TV St. Louis.

Read Tim’s blog post about Project Blacktop here.

Photo credit: children playing basketball at a playground located at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 91st Street, New York City. Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and New York Times, Aug. 1, 1911. (Library of Congress).