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Outta Site
A new sculpture garden will spruce up an unlikely spot along South Main.
By Drew Ostroski
The city of Newark continues to beautify its downtown with murals painted in alleys, on bridges and along the sides of buildings. But a different kind of public art project is taking shape along South Main Street on a parcel no longer than a football field.
When completed, the art park and sculpture garden will serve as a gateway for those traveling from East and West Main streets onto the former Elkton Road.
The park is being constructed on a narrow strip of land belonging to the CSX Railroad Corporation that runs from the intersections of West, East and South Main streets to the pedestrian tunnel that leads to the now-closed University of Delaware west campus dormitories. The strip is bordered by a sidewalk on the street side and railroad tracks on the other.
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Joe Charma stands with the garden’s first sculpture—Stan Smokler’s “Molecule.”