Comments on: Looking For Your Ideas http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2006/175/ Helping imagine a great college town for a great university Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:30:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Daddio http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2006/175/comment-page-1/#comment-456 David Daddio Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:08:06 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2006/175/#comment-456 I'd like to see continuous retail/dynamic space with large windows on the ground floors of all new buildings on east campus. Blank walls and low street vitality tend to lead to dangerous conditions - something we have enough of in College Park. I’d like to see continuous retail/dynamic space with large windows on the ground floors of all new buildings on east campus. Blank walls and low street vitality tend to lead to dangerous conditions – something we have enough of in College Park.

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]]> By: thecourtyard http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2006/175/comment-page-1/#comment-416 thecourtyard Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:44:42 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2006/175/#comment-416 There should be a town square, on the edge of the project, so the greater community can use it. The project should also have a good number of chain stores - we shouldn't tear out the older blocks of Downtown solely to put in an Urban Outfitters. As for housing - a wide variety of price points, allowing everyone from students to staff, alumni, and anyone with deep pockets to live here. This is considerably easier to do than it sounds, I feel . . . There should be a town square, on the edge of the project, so the greater community can use it. The project should also have a good number of chain stores – we shouldn’t tear out the older blocks of Downtown solely to put in an Urban Outfitters.

As for housing – a wide variety of price points, allowing everyone from students to staff, alumni, and anyone with deep pockets to live here. This is considerably easier to do than it sounds, I feel . . .

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]]> By: Mark Rose http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2006/175/comment-page-1/#comment-407 Mark Rose Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:42:46 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2006/175/#comment-407 Hey, what's up? So East Campus...I'm thinking that is should be MIXED USE development...some sort of shops/restaurants on the first few floors, with apartments/suites about for all in College Park. One major problem in College Park is accessibility to these services, and mixed use has proven to work well in cities such as DC, Baltimore and New York. Other suggestions: More open space, i.e. a park, pavillion Also, in terms of parking, a way to solve this problem is to build a central core of parking for the structure, with apartments surrounding the garage. This has been done in Northern VA for years, allowing residents to park on the floor where they live. Noise is no issue, as we have the ability to buffer it and completely block it out... Is there any forum for this coming up? Markrose85 on AIM Hey, what’s up? So East Campus…I’m thinking that is should be MIXED USE development…some sort of shops/restaurants on the first few floors, with apartments/suites about for all in College Park. One major problem in College Park is accessibility to these services, and mixed use has proven to work well in cities such as DC, Baltimore and New York.

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More open space, i.e. a park, pavillion
Also, in terms of parking, a way to solve this problem is to build a central core of parking for the structure, with apartments surrounding the garage. This has been done in Northern VA for years, allowing residents to park on the floor where they live. Noise is no issue, as we have the ability to buffer it and completely block it out…

Is there any forum for this coming up?

Markrose85 on AIM

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]]> By: David Daddio http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2006/175/comment-page-1/#comment-403 David Daddio Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:16:37 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2006/175/#comment-403 Everyone should remember that this project is going to have an 'urban character' - meaning about 9 stories in most places.... We are talking about a purple line stop and the CP metro station, one on east campus, one in front of the union, and one in front of UMUC. I agree that that might be a little excessive, but it might be useful to think of lightrail as a glorified bus (that doesn't stop at traffic lights hopefully) - indeed it might be just that - a big fancy bus as opposed to a light rail. Reguardless, it won't operate at all like the current metro. I'm thinking that CP has a lot of underutilized park space especially considering that much of the school year the weather is not conducive to being outside.Maybe the only park that they should build should be more of an urban town square style.... Good input everyone. Everyone should remember that this project is going to have an ‘urban character’ – meaning about 9 stories in most places…. We are talking about a purple line stop and the CP metro station, one on east campus, one in front of the union, and one in front of UMUC. I agree that that might be a little excessive, but it might be useful to think of lightrail as a glorified bus (that doesn’t stop at traffic lights hopefully) – indeed it might be just that – a big fancy bus as opposed to a light rail. Reguardless, it won’t operate at all like the current metro.

I’m thinking that CP has a lot of underutilized park space especially considering that much of the school year the weather is not conducive to being outside.Maybe the only park that they should build should be more of an urban town square style…. Good input everyone.

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]]> By: Jesse Blitzstein http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2006/175/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Jesse Blitzstein Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:59:11 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2006/175/#comment-402 I'm personally skeptical about the whole idea of having a million purple line stops through campus and the surrounding area. This is the suburbs remember, not a real downtown major city. Stops have the potential to create new congestion problems, crime problems, and severely alter the integrity of the campus, which the whole purple line itself could do. East campus is right across the street from main campus. People have legs, they can walk. Anyway, I don't think anyone has really commented on the retail aspect of East Campus yet. I think it will be important to consider where retail spots go on the site and what kind of retail goes in those spots. I’m personally skeptical about the whole idea of having a million purple line stops through campus and the surrounding area. This is the suburbs remember, not a real downtown major city. Stops have the potential to create new congestion problems, crime problems, and severely alter the integrity of the campus, which the whole purple line itself could do. East campus is right across the street from main campus. People have legs, they can walk.

Anyway, I don’t think anyone has really commented on the retail aspect of East Campus yet. I think it will be important to consider where retail spots go on the site and what kind of retail goes in those spots.

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