{"id":423459,"date":"2026-10-09T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423459\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:00:09","slug":"almost-twenty-years-of-placemaking-projects-come-to-an-end-as-kcci-concludes-its-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423459\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost twenty years of placemaking projects come to an end as KCCI concludes its work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After almost two decades of work, Tallahassee&#8217;s Knight Creative Communities Institute &#8211; or KCCI &#8211; is winding down its work. Over the years, the group has placed dozens of colorful art works in public spaces throughout Leon County.<\/p>\n<p>The official winding down of the initiative came Thursday, October 8 in the Cascades Park breezeway outside Argonaut Coffee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have completed our mission&#8230;mission accomplished!&#8221; declared KCCI Director Betsy Couch as members and supporters cheered.<\/p>\n<p>Couch said the organization has kept busy since its founding in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since then we have trained over 300 community catalysts. They have implemented more than 40 different major projects. And those projects have also generated a trackable impact of nearly one-billion dollars!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"A poster showing the 40+ KCCI project locations.\"  width=\"880\" height=\"1564\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791565209_299_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>     A poster showing the 40+ KCCI project locations.<\/p>\n<p>Most of that in the form of private investment in areas KCCI targeted for placemaking projects. During its final year, Couch says KCCI will issue a &#8220;how-to&#8221; guide so other community groups can duplicate its success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After almost two decades of work, Tallahassee&#8217;s Knight Creative Communities Institute &#8211; or KCCI &#8211; is winding down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-423459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}