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13 Easy Ways to Winterize Your House and Lower Your Utility Bills - The cold weather is coming to ruin your day (and night).
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The Years Of Writing Dangerously - Thirteen years ago, as I was starting to experiment with this blogging thing, I wrote the following: [T]he speed with which an idea in your head reaches th...10 years ago
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And on the last day… We "Rested" - Enjoying our last day in Dublin, we took it easy. Of course, breakfast began at the Queen of Tarts, a fabulous restaurant that is right at the bottom of th...
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Such Sweet Sorrow - After two and a half years, thousands of posts and tens of thousands of comments, Schott's Vocab is closing its doors.14 years ago
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6 comments:
Oh, my Lord!! Railroad tracks through a park??? And two unsightly grain elevators just off the photo??
Thank goodness 56572 has gotten progressive and foreward thinking.
I don't think those are grain elevators. They look like fuel tanks.
That would be so cool if that could be done today! (With or without the train tracks) just a small park to bring a little green space to that corner of PR.
To 4:28 pm, isn't the front of PRHS and Elementary School all green grass?? I'm pretty sure they would be more than willing for you to maintain it also. Wouldn't that be cool if you could adopt a green space and maintain it??
First thing one must consider in design of public open space (parks) is the end user. In context to this site, of which the end use being a gas station and McDonald’s, what users would the park attract? The park could easily be a mown strip of grass with a few benches and trees, giving the McD’s consumers a “nice” place to eat their sandwich…or it could be a demonstration space – a bona fide example of green space forward thinking that isn’t a drag on city funds or a headache for city maintenance crews (because case studies will show the gas station / McD’s will not put forth the required effort to make a lasting urban greenspace work).
But thinking outside the box, what happens to the great expanse of gravel directly behind this new development? Or on the other side of the road (1st I believe) – there is river back there. My point is why settle for a boulevard and a few street trees when there could be the potential for another E.L. Peterson Memorial Park and Sherin Memorial Park. How about the “Emerald Necklace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Necklace)” idea of fens and greenspace waterways of Boston? This could really be something special for PR – or it could just be a strip of grass with a bench. And don’t forget the Green Ash tree…
PR now has a resident Landscape Architect available for services, qualified to work with city officials and come together on a great design that benefits the longevity of the city – not just have the new development meet the required amount of greenspace and street trees based on square footage of parking lot size. Just a thought...
Eric Brown works for Land Elements in Fargo ND – a Landscape Architecture office. Available for communication at eric@landelements.com
The elevators I made reference to are the Frazee Elevator and Oil Station to the left and the Farmers' Coop Elevator and Ostlund's Feed Mill (now Farmers' Elevator) to the right. They are off the photo. The Farmers' Elevator and Feed Mill are doing more business today than ever in their long history.
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