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Olson, Stullich…We’re waiting for real leadership on the Book Exchange redevelopment

October 19th, 2010  |  by David Daddio  |  published in Book Exchange Site, Downtown, Housing, Old Town

Local leaders have really put themselves in a quandary over the Book Exchange controversy. An array of officials who are reliably pro-smart growth have teamed up with Old Town Civic Association (OTCA) in an effort to quash the proposed 6-story project that could bring 830 student beds to downtown College Park—along with roughly 170 beds geared towards graduate students [...]

What’s Ailing Old Town?

October 7th, 2010  |  by David Daddio  |  published in Book Exchange Site, Housing, Old Town, Politics

In 2006, roughly 23% of the single-family homes in College Park were rental units. In Old Town (the area bounded by Route 1, Paint Branch Pkwy, Calvert Rd and the Metro tracks) about 3 in 4 houses are rented (red and blue dots above). This is according to a detailed GIS study conducted by Eric [...]

Talks of Proposed Housing Split City Council

September 27th, 2010  |  by Fazlul Kabir  |  published in Book Exchange Site, Housing, Old Town

[Update 9/30/2010: This post has been updated with comments from District 4 Council woman Denise Mitchell] The proposal to build a 6-story, 334-unit student housing on the current Book Exchange property may still be in its very primitive stage, yet some City Council members have already started to take sides on this development. Interestingly enough, not [...]

Historic District Inching Through County Bureaucracy

November 8th, 2007  |  by Rob Goodspeed  |  published in Historic District, Old Town

One of the most important policies relating to the future of downtown College Park continues to make its way through a convoluted approval process that involves more lawyers than College Park Residents. When it is implemented, the Old Town Historic District will require property owners within the designated area (shown on a map here) to [...]

East Campus Update

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 [...]

Historic District Nears Final Approval

April 5th, 2007  |  by Rob Goodspeed  |  published in Historic District, Housing, Old Town

With College Park’s Old Town Historic District nearing final approval with county officials, the first public controversy regarding a property in the district has emerged. We had previously reported that the Old Town Historic District faced an additional hearing with the Prince George’s County Zoning Hearing Examiner’s (ZHE) Office. In response to complaints from some [...]

‘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 order [...]

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 [...]

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