Remembering a friend of Tree Trust

In early 2008, the pocket park on 8th Avenue and Washburn in north Minneapolis was not a welcoming, family-friendly green space where neighbors came to play or gather. So in the summer of 2008, Tree Trust starting working on a project to transform the park into something the neighborhood could be proud of.

We quickly met Rob MacIntyre, a handy guy with a big heart who lived near the park. Rob had been watching the Tree Trust youth crew who had been removing debris and rebuilding the decaying retaining wall, and he offered to lend a hand…and tools, and equipment, and humor, and...

Over the next two years Rob got several of his neighbors involved in the neighborhood improvements and worked alongside our youth crews, many who lived in the area, to plant trees, create gardens and transform the area.

We were saddened to learn about Rob’s passing after Sunday’s tornado, and we look forward to soon restoring the damaged parts of the green projects Rob helped us complete.

We have a special place in our hearts for Rob. Any donations made in his memory will be used to help involve the community and Tree Trust’s youth crews in replanting efforts in north Minneapolis.