September 24th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Businesses, Downtown
College Park’s nighttime revelers received another fatal blow this week after news surfaced that Wawa will be closing its doors. With the Thirsty Turtle apparently never opening, it’s hard to imagine where the increasingly large crowds “downtown” will go Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Can 7-11 measure up? We think not.
August 20th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Businesses, Downtown
While we’re busy dreaming about the new businesses that could come to the mixed use buildings on Route One and East Campus, for the time being most College Park residents are stuck with what we’ve got in downtown. Downtown contains over 70 storefront businesses offering tacos, transistors, tea, and textbooks. The downtown guide includes the [...]
June 25th, 2007 | by Chris Ellepola | published in City Garage/Condos/City Hall, Downtown, Route 1, Transportation
Hearing to be held Tuesday, July 3rd (7 pm) at City Hall on the proposed downtown parking garage. A planned 5-level parking garage is proposed to be at Knox Road and Yale Avenue (across the street from City Hall, behind Cornerstone) where there is currently a regular city parking lot. Two houses adjacent to the [...]
March 29th, 2007 | by Sam Snellings | published in Downtown, Old Town, Transportation
The University of Maryland’s Department of Public Safety has recently established the ‘preferred’ route from the University of Maryland Campus to the College Park Metro stop through a partnership between the University of Maryland and the City of College Park. This route has been given increased lighting, additional emergency phones and landscaping improvements in order [...]
March 14th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Downtown, General College Park, Housing, Knox Box Redevelopment, Mazza Grandmarc, Northgate Area, Route 1
We’re pleased to announce that a major (and in our view: reasonable) compromise was reached late last night on the impact fee waiver controversy. While everyone at the meeting agreed the boundary (that allows a county incentive for student housing) needs to be reduced from its original size (black line) to an area within the [...]
February 28th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Downtown, East Campus, General College Park, Old Town
As anyone familiar with College Park’s neighborhoods knows, in some neighborhoods officials gone to great lengths to limit traffic on residential streets. Although most were developed with interconnected, gridiron street networks, over the years many streets have been cut off totally or made one way. The result is what one local resident calls a “traffic [...]
January 26th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Downtown, East Campus, General College Park, Old Town
Although it has taken a bit longer than we expected, we finally completed locating and uploading digital copies of many of the plans and drawings produced during the 2006 SGA College Park Charrette. We have created a library page for the event spearheaded by former SGA president Andrew Rose and containing a presentation he created [...]
January 12th, 2007 | by Andrea Longini | published in Downtown
While there is no quick-fix for community redevelopment, community beautification through art is relatively simple. The only ingredients are cheap materials such as paint and the spark of a creative mind. Let us take into account the current state of affairs in downtown College Park aesthetics. The horizon is bland, squat, and nearly uniform. From [...]
