August 6th, 2009 | by Clay Gump | published in Businesses, Downtown
At the opening ceromony yesterday for the new downtown parking garage amid the usual pomp and circumstance a big announcement was made regarding the 5800 square feet of ground floor retail.
The original Ledo’s will be moving from their long time location in Adelphi to downtown College Park. This is the mothership of all Ledo’s pizza [...]
July 31st, 2009 | by Clay Gump | published in Downtown, Events, General College Park
Finally those circling in front of Chipotle’s looking for a parking space will have a new option. The Grand opening for the new Parking Garage will be on Wednesday, August 5, 2009, at 4:00 p.m. The garage provides 288 parking spaces plus 5,800 square feet of ground floor retail space. No word on if there [...]
February 25th, 2008 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Downtown, General College Park, Route 1
We know as well as any the difficulty of keeping track of all the development occurring and proposed in College Park, as well as how hard it is to separate truth from fiction when it comes to the economics of real estate. That’s why we decided to post these slides, presented by the city’s economic [...]
October 4th, 2007 | by R. Michael Farhoodi | published in Businesses, Downtown, General College Park, Speculation
In case you missed it, I wrote an opinion column that was published in last Wednesday’s Diamondback student newspaper entitled “Wawa, good riddance”. To read it, go here.
In summary, I celebrated the demise of the College Park Wawa and how it symbolized the less than desirable conditions of College Park. And while Wawa wasn’t [...]
September 24th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Businesses, Downtown
College Park’s nighttime revelers received another fatal blow this week after news surfaced that Wawa will be closing its doors. With the Thirsty Turtle apparently never opening, it’s hard to imagine where the increasingly large crowds “downtown” will go Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Can 7-11 measure up? We think not.
August 20th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Businesses, Downtown
While we’re busy dreaming about the new businesses that could come to the mixed use buildings on Route One and East Campus, for the time being most College Park residents are stuck with what we’ve got in downtown. Downtown contains over 70 storefront businesses offering tacos, transistors, tea, and textbooks.
The downtown guide includes the phone [...]
June 25th, 2007 | by Chris Ellepola | published in City Garage/Condos/City Hall, Downtown, Route 1, Transportation
Hearing to be held Tuesday, July 3rd (7 pm) at City Hall on the proposed downtown parking garage.
A planned 5-level parking garage is proposed to be at Knox Road and Yale Avenue (across the street from City Hall, behind Cornerstone) where there is currently a regular city parking lot. Two houses adjacent [...]
March 29th, 2007 | by Sam Snellings | published in Downtown, Old Town, Transportation
The University of Maryland’s Department of Public Safety has recently established the ‘preferred’ route from the University of Maryland Campus to the College Park Metro stop through a partnership between the University of Maryland and the City of College Park. This route has been given increased lighting, additional emergency phones and landscaping improvements in [...]
