Posts tagged Parks
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NE DC is turning vacant parking lots into playing fields, thanks to these parents
Some families in Northeast DC couldn’t finding a field nearby, so they found some vacant parking lots nearby and drew up plans for a place for kids to play. After years of work, those parking lots are getting turned into something even grander than neighborhood advocates initially dreamt. Keep reading…
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12 formal gardens in and around DC you’ll love to wander
The Washington region is blessed with some of the best formal gardens in North America. Here are 12 of them. Keep reading…
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Keep the Mall open for sports, residents tell NPS
A draft proposal from the National Park Service (NPS) would greatly reduce available playing space for organized sports on the National Mall and increase fees for players to use the areas that will still allow residents to play. More than 100,000 people participate in local sports leagues that play on the Mall. Keep reading…
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Parklets provide creative public spaces in Rosslyn and beyond
Attractive public gathering spaces, offering greenery and seating in urban areas where space is often limited, are key to successful urban areas. With this in mind, the Rosslyn Business Improvement District (BID), in partnership with Arlington County, is launching a new parklet this week. Keep reading…
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Gales Wood or Met Branch Commons? Voting is open to name NoMa’s new park off the Met Branch Trail
The NoMa Parks Foundation has opened voting on four possible names for its new large park off the Metropolitan Branch Trail: Tanner Park, Gales Wood, Met Branch Commons, or Union Green. Keep reading…
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Public space is popular, until people want to use it
Some Restonians are opposed to making a local public plaza nicer over fears that the improvements will lead to more teenagers and vandalism. But Reston's public spaces such as plazas are what helps make the community strong, as well as unique in Fairfax County. Keep reading…
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“Rain” is beginning to light up a NoMa underpass
The NoMa Parks Foundation has begun to the turn the lights on in the M Street NE underpass. The first rods of “Rain,” the installation selected to illuminate and activate the space in 2015, are up and glowing on the south side of the street. Keep reading…
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National links: Want to feel more optimistic about the world? Look local.
Most Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, but think their own communities are improving. Homelessness probably looks a different from how you think it does. Central Park in Manhattan is going permanently car-free. Keep reading…
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Can this Mount Vernon Triangle, um, triangle be a great park?
In DC's triangular Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood is a smaller triangle, known as Cobb Park. It's not much of a park right now, but it could be. A new study from the Mount Vernon Triangle Community Improvement District looked at what such a park could look like and other possible places for parks around the neighborhood. Keep reading…
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The attached triangle: a solution to a neglected triangle park near you
Nearly 300 small parks scattered around the District of Columbia are owned, and often neglected, by the National Park Service. Dozens of these are little more than traffic islands, remnants left over amidst the many complicated multi-leg intersections along angled streets — a legacy that dates back to the L'Enfant Plan. Keep reading…