Take the Kids: Play - Marbles' new Color Pop Corner

"That space is turning into what we were intending it to be, which is a colorful courtyard and gateway into the Moore Square district of downtown," said Taylor Rankin, Marbles' senior marketing and communications specialist. "The mural will add a lot of color and vibrancy."

This week, Marbles also announced the opening of a new exhibit. Piece Out, a summer pop-up exhibit sponsored by Red Hat where kids collaborate using loose parts and larger-than-life play pieces to "build something great," takes over a former storage room and adds more than 1,800 square feet to its first floor exhibit space, according to the press release.

Color Pop Corner isn't huge (it sits on about .12 acres), but it'll be a welcome spot for parents, who need to let their kids run a little bit after a day inside at Marbles or a place for a picnic lunch while they're downtown.

The space includes a small landscaped area, along with some seating and big, colorful concrete balls, which the kids I brought - ages 8 and 13 - were climbing all over.

But the focal point is the bright, colorful mural, which, I suspect, will soon be a destination for selfies and family pictures.

Check it out ...

There's no charge to check out the corner. It's free and open to the public.