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Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 1:35 PM
Subject: Fwd: PRESS RELEASE: Bowser to Meet with Friends of McMillan Park
PRESS RELEASE
Friends of McMillan
Park
FOR RELEASE: October 11,
2013
CONTACT: Erin Fairbanks,
240-506-6777, erinwhite@yahoo.com
Mayoral candidate Councilmember Muriel Bowser has agreed
to meet with a delegation from Friends of McMillan Park (FOM) to hear the
organization's call for her to support preservation of McMillan Park. The
Friends delivered a formal meeting request on Thursday evening at the Bowser Ward 5 campaign kickoff that
occurred in the heart of Bloomingdale on 1st and Bryant Streets, NW,
just one block south of McMillan.
At the campaign event, a number of Bowser's supporters
signed the FOM petition to save McMillan Park, joining the more than 5,000
other signatories from across the District. Bowser, however, declined to sign
it. Both Councilmembers Tommy Wells and Jack Evans have signed the
petition.
During the
upcoming meeting with Bowser, FOM plans to ask her to oppose Mayor Gray’s plan
to surplus McMillan Park, to closely examine the unusual relationship between
his Administration and its development consultant (Vision McMillan Partners),
and to support an international design competition for the adaptive reuse of the
historic Olmstedpark. FOM will also ask Bowser again to sign the
petition.
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