Workers from San Antonio's Toyota factory swapped their torque wrenches and hard hats for shovels and paintbrushes Monday as they began a two-week citywide beautification effort.
The City-Toyota Green Clean-Up Project is dispatching as many as 340 employees from Toyota and its onsite suppliers through 17 city parks to clean, paint and plant. Employees will work through the week, then start a second round Oct. 6.
“We asked who wanted to go, and we got more than 1,000 volunteers,” said Dan Antis, Toyota's general manager for production, as he oversaw work crews at Brackenridge Park. “It was amazing. We couldn't take that many, but it's a good problem to have.”
As a result of Toyota's sweep, visitors should see cleaner parks, trimmed vegetation, and fresh paint on fixtures such as picnic tables and trash barrels.