Great Places: Moore Square Videos & Call for Ideas Tonight
Earlier this month Raleigh landscape architect Rodney Swink was named jury advisor for the Moore Square Redesign Competition. Tonight is the first Open Call for Ideas event at Marbles from 4pm to 8pm. More Information on the Call for Ideas.
This afternoon’s event includes:
A presentation
Historic and Large Scale Current Maps
Write a postcard about the park from 2030 (time travel!)
A Tour Of The Park and Facilitators and drafters to help translate your ideas into Park Plans
Below the fold we have 7 videos from community members and business leaders that help shape the current Moore Square experience and what they would like to see. Jesse Benjamin also offered up some thoughts here: Moore Square Lives! and here More on the Public Competition to Gentrify Moore Square. I Mean, Redesign.
Introduction
The 21st Century
Ken Bowers on the comp plan, downtown growth and how important the park is to people who use downtown. The Budlight Raleigh shows are killing the grass.
Social Implications
Lynn Daniell, the Executive Director of the Raleigh Rescue Mission talks about the Homeless
Economics
Pete Pagano, owner of Tir Na Nog, and David Diaz, of the Downtown Raleigh Alliance
Urban Park Experience
Exploris Middle School students, principal, Kevin Piacenza, and David Shouse of Raleigh Parks and Recreation
Arts & Culture
Sarah Powers talks about VAE and SparkCon’s use of Moore Square.
History
Raleigh native, Edna Rich-Ballentine
Tourism
Alex Gupton, a community service representative, who works in the Moore Square Information Center
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arthurb3
06/17 03:07 PM
Its needs alittle redesign to make it more walkable and pretty - some low fencing and new side walks, signs pointing to the two multi-storied parking decks. I think a big fountain would be nice, too!
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RaleighMAC
06/17 03:46 PM
I find Moore Square to be a great urban space. A little redesign could improve its walkability, and like Arthur, I agree that a fountain would be perfect. Great cities proudly feature fountains in their town squares, and I think it’s about time Raleigh has one!
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Michelle
06/17 04:18 PM
I’d love to see a community garden.
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Christian
06/17 05:47 PM
ice skating rink! hah, just kidding. But I do admire the northern cities like NY and Chicago that can pull that off.
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Clay
06/17 06:05 PM
maybe not an ice skating rink but what about something like Chicago’s Crown Fountain in the new Milennium Park? It has water in a very shallow pool, maybe an inch or two deep, at the base of two towers that occassionally sprays water out and it has faces of people on the towers that change every few minutes or so. Maybe not something on the same scale, the one in Chicago is huge. But some sort of water feature that would help kids cooling off when they are with their families down there. Plus it would be a great thing for all those downtown concerts when people need a way to cool off.
I would just hate to see a fountain that was there just for decoration, make it usable in some way. Let people be able to enjoy using it in some way as opposed to a pool of water just sitting there.
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joe
06/22 03:46 PM
Go to Greensboro, look at the city center, copy it, redo Moore square like that. Case closed. However, people will still be at crabtree instead of the new park. I wish it was not true, but it is and the sad truth is we know that it is true.
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Raleigh Citizens
10/16 05:48 PM
The competition winners have been decided, see what the jury passed on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43392181@N04/sets/72157622569955664/
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