The community organization that led the creation of the $2.9 million public-private AIDS Memorial Pathway project connecting Capitol Hill Station to Cal Anderson Park have announced the pathway will be shepherded going forward by neighborhood nonprofit Gay City.

As part of the change, Gay City will now be responsible for planning events around the pathway and all digital elements of The AMP including the pathway’s augmented reality tour, the group said.

“With the primary elements of The AMP in place, the community group that formed to create the memorial is phasing out and other groups are taking over,” the group said in a statement.

CHS reported on Gay City’s move to a new home on E Pine planned to debut later this year.

The pathway was dedicated this summer. The pathway’s centerpiece rises in the Capitol Hill Station Plaza and elegantly incorporates a large block full of transit system utilities. Artist Christopher Paul Jordan’s andimgonnamisseverybody is a giant X made from speakers, a 20 foot by 20 foot structure, designed by the artist to represent X as a positive symbol turned on its axis to erode the perceived binary between HIV positive and HIV negative people and symbolizing a solidarity between the two. Jordan told CHS after his selection last year that “the general attitude that a lot of folks have is, ‘Well it doesn’t really affect me, I’m negative.’ There’s a respectability culture around HIV negative status that sees itself as separate from the crisis, as some people have access to healthcare and support they need.”

Jason Plourde served as project manager for the AMP group.

The three outdoor, permanent artworks that make up the pathway have been incorporated into the City of Seattle’s Civic Art Collection, the group said, and Community Roots Housing owns and will maintain the artwork in the community room of the Station House building it developed.

Donations to support the pathway, can now be made directly to Gay City, according to the announcement.

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