Thursday September 6, 2007

Museum Park Forum. I love the idea of a site like this, and while this seems pretty transparently anti-museum and somewhat wrong-headed (if you give people a list of 23 community-park amenities to choose from, don’t be surprised when it looks like people want a community park). Here’s the plan for Bicentennial/Museum Park. And FWIW, I still support a soccer field on Parcel B — soccer is one of the few things Bicentennial Park is currently used for.

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  1. b.a.c.    Thu Sep 6, 03:31 PM #  

    Look at that, the designs you linked for Museum park show a football pitch behind the AAA. It would be a damn shame if we get an eyesore cube for a museum there. Damn shame



  2. alesh    Thu Sep 6, 09:29 PM #  

    Correct, b.a.c.

    I can be persuaded on this point, but I think that a Bay of Pigs museum is 1) a good idea and 2) not a good idea for this site.

    My gut tells me that a soccer field, to be used as such by prior reservation, and as an open field for open use when not reserved, is the right choice for this site.

    Parking is a doubleplusmajor issue for the park in general, which I hope gets to be addressed soon. I look into my crystal ball and I see a garage on the NW corner of the lot. But thaz just me.



  3. anony    Fri Sep 14, 06:55 AM #  

    Soccer on parcel B?
    Water on 2 sides?
    Ever seen a kid chase after a ball?

    Will this be the first soccer field with lifeguards on duty?

    The city paid Partnership For Public Spaces to conduct a charette in 2004 regarding the entire Baywalk concept, the result of which was the following recommendation, among others:

    “no ballfields should be situated on Parcel B”

    Look it up.

    Why pay the world’s leading urban planning experts to study Parcel B if you’re just going to ignore such a blatant conclusion?



  4. alesh    Fri Sep 14, 07:17 AM #  

    anoy~

    Look it up? The way we do things here on the internet is that if you want to persuade a single solitary person YOU look it up, and link to it.

    As for soccer on Parcel B, if YOU were to look at the plan (which I linked above, hoping you might be bothered to click before subjecting us your opinion), you’ll see that there’s a fence and a baywalk between the field and the water.

    And as I said, in the three years s