The final “Enjoy College Park Tour” event of the year will be taking place on Monday, December 20th at Hanami Japanese Resaurant at 7:00 p.m. Delegate Joseline Pena-Melnyk is the guest speaker. The “Enjoy College Park Tour” takes place at a different area restaurant each month. It is designed to bring people together from across [...]
All of us RTCP readers and contributors want to see College Park’s business environment to thrive and support a variety of unique local restaurants and retail spaces. For those interested in supporting the idea of shopping locally, the website www.shopcollegepark.org is a great resource. A Facebook and Twitter version of Shop College Park launched that will [...]
The City of College Park Resident Satisfaction Survey is back! Tell us what you think about where you live in the 2010 City of College Park Resident Satisfaction Survey. What is the purpose of the survey? The City uses the Resident Satisfaction Survey as a tool to see how well we serve you through City [...]
The Experience and Enjoy College Park Tour will be visiting N.Y. Deli in the Hollywood commercial district on Wednesday, August 25th. The guest speaker for this event will be the new Police Chief for the University of Maryland – David Mitchell. The Experience & Enjoy College Park Tour is designed to bring those who work, [...]
Those who read this blog on a regular basis know that the founder of this blog (David Daddio) and District 1 County Councilman Tom Dernoga had more than their fair share of disagreements on redevelopment issues in College Park over the years. Months ago I spoke with Tom about these disagreements, in particular over the [...]
The long awaited opening of the Mazza Grandmarc took place today as the first graduate students were allowed to move in. The primary move in date for non graduate students will be August 22nd. I spoke with the on site manager who told me the Mazza is now around 45% full (it was under 10% [...]
We have a new online news website in the City of College Park called the College Park Patch. It launched yesterday and is part of the national Patch network run by AOL. The national Patch site says that they look for communities of 15-100k people that they believe are drastically under served by media and [...]
Back in 2006 this site was launched by David Daddio and Rob Goodspeed to focus on development issues taking place in College Park so that “students and city residents can be educated, debate the merits of projects and voice opinions.” Both have since moved out of the city and for over a year now the [...]