January 15th, 2008 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in East Campus, On Campus Development, Purple Line
The East Campus project is located roughly half a mile from the College Park Metrorail station, adjacent ten bus routes, bisected by a bike trail connected to a major regional trail system, and the future home of a Purple Line light rail station.
The project developers have made a guess as to how much less parking [...]
January 14th, 2008 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in East Campus
The next East Campus Community Review Steering Committee meetings will be held tonight (January 14th) and January 28th. Tonight’s meeting will examine parking and transportation issues, and the meeting on the 28th will be concerned with the committee’s overall development principles.
Both meetings will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Prince George’s Room of the [...]
November 15th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in East Campus
The last next East Campus Community Review Steering Committee has been rescheduled for December 10th. Here is the announcement from the university:
*There will be no meeting this Monday, November 19. The upcoming scheduled meeting to review guiding principles for East Campus has been postponed. Some members of the committee expressed concern with the draft principles [...]
October 18th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in East Campus, Environment, Old Town, Transportation
The East Campus Community Review Steering Committee has been meeting since August to hear from the developers and their consultants about a wide variety of issues surrounding the project. We have encouraged our readers to attend these meetings (and many have) and I am an official committee member of this committee. The meetings are preceded [...]
October 16th, 2007 | by Matt Johnson | published in East Campus, Other College Towns
As the East Campus Redevelopment Project moves through the public participation process, it is valuable to look at how other universities have integrated mixed-use facilities into their campuses. This is the second post in that series.
In August of 2003, Georgia Tech completed the much anticipated Technology Square project. This redevelopment effort was in keeping with [...]
October 15th, 2007 | by Eric Fidler | published in East Campus
Terp Weekly Edition, a radio program on WMUC, aired a 3.5 minute interview (3.1 MB, mp3) with Doug Duncan last week discussing his goals for East Campus.
In the interview, Duncan held Silver Spring as a model for redevelopment in College Park. The downtown Silver Spring development, which he helped orchestrate when he was Montgomery [...]
October 10th, 2007 | by Eric Raasch | published in East Campus, On Campus Development, Other College Towns, Route 1
As the East Campus Redevelopment Project moves through the public participation process, it is valuable to look at how other universities have integrated mixed-use facilities into their campuses. Over the next week and months we hope to profile many similar projects.
The University of Central Florida (UCF) recently put the finishing touches on a $300 million [...]
October 2nd, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in East Campus, Transportation
Will the East Campus Redevelopment project be connected to Old Town College Park with through streets? While the issue is far from settled, rumors have emerged that there are city residents advocating for both blocking and keeping open to traffic the streets connecting East Campus to Old Town to vehicular traffic. We think closing the [...]
