This summer’s $2 million acquisition of empty lots at the corner of Federal and Republican was just the start of the work required to bring a new green space to this part of Capitol Hill. The community group formed to push this work forward and help guide the city’s park process is meeting Monday night at the Capitol Hill library to discuss this process and plans to put the empty space to use in the interim. Details on the meeting and a few park updates, below.
Neighbor Jeff sent some of the latest FedRep news our way. The community group’s mission, he says, is to recommend uses for the future park to the parks department. He says the group now has some funding from the city and is hiring a consultant. As Jeff puts it, the group is entering “the serious discussion phase” of the project. You can learn more about FedRep park here http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FedRepPark/
We are meeting tonight at 6:30 to 7:30 in the meeting room upstairs in the Capitol Hill Library.
We are meeting to plan the strategy for getting the word out for the formal community meetings the city requires. We are also planning future fundraisers for park development, interim uses until the city decides on the formal uses, working with the architect who will create the formal park and how to get the word out in the future.
MONDAY DECEMBER 13th at 6:30 PM
Capitol Hill Library
Upstairs Meeting Room
Harvard Ave E & E Republican
I wondered what was going to happen after then demolished the 3 houses there!
I think another P-Patch for the neighborhood would be great. Merely because Volunteer Park is absolutely walkable from the location.
P-Patch!!!
The big old white house directly to the east of the park is for sale. And from what I’ve heard, at a very decent price!
I don’t know if further acquisition funds are a possibility, but that’s intriguing & creative.
Zillow doesn’t show it as for sale, but the estimated value is close to 800K.
If it is valued at 800K then the city will probably buy it for 1.2 million.
Here’s the redfin listing for this house at 505 11th Ave. E. Looks like it was just put on the market in the past day (Dec. 14th) at $599,900.
I just don’t get this – Isn’t there already a P patch at Thomas and Federal??
And aren’t P patches only able to serve a very limited number of people with this very expensive parks & recreations space? And aren’t p patch lists also filled with people on a waiting list that may not even include people in the immediate neighborhood?
And finally isn’t it true that planting strips -the earthy or green space between the curb and the sidewalk – along every street are free-game for p patchers’ use, by city law?
Let’s make the planting strips all up and down Federal & republican into p patch space and leave the parks space for, uhm, a park.