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Downtown Parking Garage Hearing

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 [...]

‘Preferred’ Route to Metro Identified

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 [...]

City Council, Student Leaders, RTCP Reach Major Compromise

March 14th, 2007  |  by David Daddio  |  published in Downtown, General College Park, Housing, Knox Box Redevelopment, Mazza Grandmarc, Northgate Area, Route 1

We’re pleased to announce that a major (and in our view: reasonable) compromise was reached late last night on the impact fee waiver controversy. While everyone at the meeting agreed the boundary (that allows a county incentive for student housing) needs to be reduced from its original size (black line) to an area within the [...]

CP’s ‘Labyrinth’ and Route One Traffic

February 28th, 2007  |  by Rob Goodspeed  |  published in Downtown, East Campus, General College Park, Old Town

As anyone familiar with College Park’s neighborhoods knows, in some neighborhoods officials gone to great lengths to limit traffic on residential streets. Although most were developed with interconnected, gridiron street networks, over the years many streets have been cut off totally or made one way.
The result is what one local resident calls a “traffic labyrinth” [...]

2006 Student Charrette Images Online

January 26th, 2007  |  by Rob Goodspeed  |  published in Downtown, East Campus, General College Park, Old Town

Although it has taken a bit longer than we expected, we finally completed locating and uploading digital copies of many of the plans and drawings produced during the 2006 SGA College Park Charrette. We have created a library page for the event spearheaded by former SGA president Andrew Rose and containing a presentation he created [...]

An Aesthetic Assessment of Downtown

January 12th, 2007  |  by Andrea Longini  |  published in Downtown

While there is no quick-fix for community redevelopment, community beautification through art is relatively simple. The only ingredients are cheap materials such as paint and the spark of a creative mind. Let us take into account the current state of affairs in downtown College Park aesthetics.
The horizon is bland, squat, and nearly uniform. From [...]

Light Up My Life

January 6th, 2007  |  by Eric Fidler  |  published in Downtown

The student body isn’t the only thing in town getting brighter. College Park now boasts a series of new lampposts lining Baltimore Avenue (Route 1) downtown. These lamps enhance safety (as we have written before) while adding a touch of needed elegance to the city.

Rethinking the Knox Box Area

December 13th, 2006  |  by Rob Goodspeed  |  published in Downtown, Events, Knox Box Redevelopment

Tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. in the Gallery of the Architecture Building, architecture and urban planning master’s student Brian Carroll will defend his thesis examining the Knox Box and downtown area of College Park. His thesis proposes a possible redevelopment of this area including changes to street alignments and the design of possible new buildings both [...]

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