August 16th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Site Announcements
244 posts, 898 comments, and basically a year of serious postings. And what a year it has been! RTCP’s staff gets a little upset when good posts get buried. Just because they are old doesn’t make them any less important. So we decided to go back and dig up our ten best. Here they are [...]
August 16th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in General College Park, Northgate Area, Raymond Towers
A condominium project first proposed in December 2006 by area developer Otis Warren is moving forward, and this time it seems possible it will be developed with students in mind. The project, located at 8400 Baltimore Avenue, will contain 300 residential units, 14,000 square feet of retail, and a 4-story 421 space parking garage. These [...]
August 15th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Site Announcements
With the school year approaching, activity is picking up around here. With major projects rolling down the pipeline and decisions being made about the East Campus Project, it promises to be a busy fall. In addition to reading the site, how can you stay in touch with Rethink College Park?
1. Join the email list. We [...]
August 15th, 2007 | by R. Michael Farhoodi | published in Transportation
Starting August 25, 2007, the Department of Transportation Services is offering expanded weekend service on Route 104 to the College Park Metro from central campus beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings. One of the major complaints of bus riders within the campus community was the lack of weekend bus service from campus [...]
August 14th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in East Campus, On Campus Development
Last night, university officials and their development partner Foulger-Pratt/Argo Investment launched what will be a comprehensive public input process for the East Campus project, the University’s plan to create 2,000 units of student market rate housing (Including designated graduate student housing), 400,000 square feet of retail including a grocery store, hotel, and office building along [...]
August 10th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Site Announcements
RTCP Editor Rob Goodspeed just posted an insightful and sweeping article about the future of urban planning and how blogs like this could help facilitate a robust broad-based public dialogue to bring about true urban change. The article is posted to Planetizan – a blog which Rob contributes to monthly. The post is a must [...]
August 8th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in General College Park
A new website designed to assess the walkability of neighborhoods has been causing a buzz on the web lately. Designed to calculate “the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc” the site combines data gleaned from Google into one easy-to-understand score ranging from 0 to 100. Under 20 is “driving [...]
August 3rd, 2007 | by Chris Ellepola | published in Cafritz Property
In this article we draw attention back to a concern aired in a previous post. Many citizens have spoken up for the Cafritz’s to keep their property undeveloped, or to not pursue changing existing zoning to accommodate mixed use. Up to the second (previous) round of meetings at the end of June, the development team [...]
