McMillan
Park Restoration Initiative 2013
McMillan
Park restoration outline: what about writing a proposal to the city council for
legislation to restore McMillan. Write up a sequence of conservancy,
restoration, park consortium, connections to Howard, CUA, Childrens Nat. Med.
Center,or DPR, or better National Park Service Rock Creek Park District, etc.
Get
a city council member to sponsor legislation. ..McMillan Park Restoration Act
of 2013.
I
love the way HPRB critiques the VMP building sketches...of course they fail to
emphasize the site, historic design. We just can't plop down all kinds of
modern buildings on a site like this..they need to say it's absurd to force all
this extraneous stuff on an Olmsted park. The HPRB basically is rejecting the
plan by smaller bites. Let's get them to realize the whole thing is ludicrous.
We
need to properly outline the restoration of this park, renderings, and
narratives, etc. Include the most appropriate adaptive-reuse that is compatible
with 100% park plantings, landscaping, sustainable energy, save the sand
filtration plant for Clean Water Security. Have a proper park, just like every
single park in this city. We should lay out our recommendations like
Re-mediating the WHC parking lots, and it's storm water runoff and new medical
office buildings, on WHC itself. I do not see any reason not to properly
separate the broad elements of this situation, where they belong. Lofts in
warehouses, derelict buildings along the Red Line, continued re-development on
old Safeway( now Shop-alot or whateverit`s called). Let's flesh out the sensible and appropriate
process of reclaiming McMillan Park, all of it--bistro, art studios, City
Bazarre, water works. If a design like Miriam Gusevich and Collage City's
recreation center is needed fine, park activities and concessions, sports and
art activities, and related adaptive re-use. Develop funding, foundation, and
trust.
Total
estimate by Wash Post for park restoration in 2001 was $45 million.
Let's
go for it. If NOMA can get $50 million for a place with no parks, we want the
same or whatever the cost is.
Daniel
Goldon Wolkoff
1231
Randolph Street, NE
Washington,
DC 20017
202-232-8391
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