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Plans to Rejuvenate a Beloved Denver Park Have Sparked an Emotional Debate

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 3, 2007 | Add Comment

Efforts are underway to refurbish, rethink and rejuvenate Denver’s aging Civic Center park, boosting its profile and transforming it into a more desirable destination by improving accessibility and security and giving residents and tourists more reasons to visit.

Though the plan has been endorsed by most parties, it has also generated emotional debate by [...]

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Noise Pollution May Prompt Highway Cover-up in Oak Park, IL

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 19, 2006 | Add Comment

Highways are unwelcome, noisy, polluting neighbors to people who live near them. They’re so imposing that it’s hard to imagine making one disappear. But that’s exactly what Oak Park, IL, might do.  A group is proposing to turn 1 1/2 miles of an expressway into a tunnel, with a 60 acre park on top.

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Interstate Bridge in Atlanta Remade into Pedestrian-friendly Mini-park

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 7, 2006 | Add Comment

“Atlanta’s newest park is planted in quite a place: 17 feet above Downtown Connector motorists.

There is nothing else like it in the state, say Georgia Department of Transportation officials. The Fifth Street Bridge, officially finished today, has more than tripled in size as it spans I-75/I-85 downtown, giving the feel of a garden rather [...]

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Greensboro’s New Center City Park is Open!

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 4, 2006 | Add Comment

The City of Greensboro held a ribbon cutting ceremony on December 1, 2006, to celebrate the opening of the new Center City Park.

In 2003, PPS worked with the City and community members to create a vision for what this new park could be.  PPS facilitated a Placemaking workshop where participants developed a range of [...]

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Holiday Magic in Clinton Square, Syracuse

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 4, 2006 | Add Comment

Back in 1999, PPS worked in Syracuse, NY, on revitalizing Clinton Square.  The square has been open for a few years, and now hosts spectacular holiday events:

This image of Clinton Square (c) John Bery, Post-Standard  

For more images of the tree lighting ceremony in Clinton Square, visit www.syracuse.com, [...]

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Creating a Great Place in Covington, KY

By ksalay@pps.org on Nov 30, 2006 | Add Comment

PPS held a community workshop with 70 residents of Covington, KY, to explore possibilities for a site that is to become a public square.  The participants toured the site, and then brainstormed ideas for activites and programs that could occur there.  PPS Vice President Steve Davies said of the square, “The goal is to [...]

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San Diego’s Dedication to Public Space

By ksalay@pps.org on Nov 29, 2006 | Add Comment

“What is the measure of a great city or urban region? Its education systems? Its arts? Its business inventiveness? All of the above. But the most overlooked measure is a city’s dedication to the public space.”

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Plans For Philadelphia Waterfront Coming To Life

By ksalay@pps.org on Nov 17, 2006 | Add Comment

For almost fifty years, the promise of Philadelphia’s waterfront has gone unfulfilled. Now, however, there is a glimmer of hope for the waterfront.

On October 12, Mayor John Street signed an executive order authorizing Penn Praxis, under the guidance of Harris Steinberg, to work with Philadelphians to create comprehensive planning for a seven-mile stretch [...]

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Campus Martius Shares Credit for Detroit’s Bright Future

By ksalay@pps.org on Nov 10, 2006 | Add Comment

Detroit’s downtown — a cold, empty symbol of urban decay for decades — is on its way to a warmer, livelier, more entertaining future. Campus Martius, the new downtown square that PPS helped create the vision for, played a role in sparking the revitalization.

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Two PPS Projects Named on Urban Land Institute’s List of Top Ten Urban Parks

By ksalay@pps.org on Nov 7, 2006 | Add Comment

Campus Martius, a new downtown square in Detroit MI, and Wade Oval, a recently revitalized park in Cleveland OH, appear in “Top Ten Urban Parks,” an article that appears in the October 2006 issue of Urban Land.  As with the other places that appear on the list, these two projects show how “parks [...]

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Hollywood May Place Green Cap on Freeway

By ksalay@pps.org on Nov 7, 2006 | Add Comment

“In a town built on make-believe, Hollywood leaders are hoping to pull off the greatest feat yet: creating a public park out of thin air.

Civic and business organizers want to turn a half-mile portion of the Hollywood Freeway into a tunnel and construct a 24-acre greenbelt swath from Bronson Avenue to Wilton Place on [...]

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Seattle Considers Replacing Highway With Park

By ksalay@pps.org on Nov 1, 2006 | Add Comment

Facing a need to either renovate their crumbling transportation infrastructure or remove it, public officials in Seattle are considering a few options. The city could rebuild the highway, or it could invest a little more money to move a new highway underground, leaving the surface available for a waterfront park. A third idea, backed by [...]

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