Out of all the days I found this on Moore's website
http://www.cityofmoore.com/parmele-park-taking-shapeIt will include the following features:
Playground
Walking trail
Pavilion
Permanent restroom
Sprayground
Landscaping
Out of all the days I found this on Moore's website
http://www.cityofmoore.com/parmele-park-taking-shapeIt will include the following features:
Playground
Walking trail
Pavilion
Permanent restroom
Sprayground
Landscaping
Not sure if this is the new park or not. Either way, this thing is huge
"On Monday night, designers unveiled plans for a new park. The future focal point for the city would stretch six blocks along Broadway Street, turning 80 acres of fields into much more.
The park design includes attractions for all types, including a water park, splash pads, pond, handicap-accessible play areas, trails, gardens, and a new community center.
“This is very special, just across the street is one of the worst hit tornado areas in the state and this is going to be an extremely nice addition,” said Moore Mayor Glenn Lewis. “It will be completed by the time all the houses are back, so we’re very excited about all of these options.”
Read more: Moore unveils plan for new park - Oklahoma City - OKC - KOCO.com
This is going to be an awesome park and great for Moore! I just wish they would take all of the parking and build structured parking or do something unique like build a hill and make a mountain biking course/free roam with a parking garage underneath. THAT WOULD BE COOL!!!!
(Car) park.
Yep, that's pretty terrible.
More parking spaces than trees? How can you even call this a park with a straight face?
ROFLMAO! But hey, when you build in a manner that requires everyone to drive you need a place for them to park. What a waste. Ball ---- dropped.
Odd this thread should become active, again. I was just thinking about this topic today. All of these are valid points, but they aren't anything new -- which tells me that either recent commenters haven't read through the entire thread or have forgotten. For me, this thread should end at post #43 (my retroactive nomination is herewith submitted for 2012 post of the year) and post #43 should end in "#drops mic", but the author is too modest to say that, I'll bet. Here's the best post of 2012, for those of you who don't wish to seek it out.
I'm not sure what your point is. We all agree that what Sid suggested is all great stuff.
My reaction is based solely on the rendering in the PDF linked above. A rendering that shows more parking lots than anything else.
Yeah.... It's terrible that Moore is building a place for it's citizens to go for recreation... Absolutely terrible!
I know I'll just hate it every time I go over there to safely ride my bike on the trails, shoot some hoops, or buy some fresh vegetables for my dinner table.
Eh, I think it is ok. There is a bit too much parking. If I were building it, i would've built a 5 story parking garage with 200-400 spaces and had 2 of the levels underground. I also would've had one level for retail, but overall, it would be 3 stories high.
You realize Moore is the suburbs? People close to the park will walk or ride a bike over there. The rest of us drive and will need parking.
The farmers market will also draw people from outside Moore. Those people will drive and need a place to park.
If this was the OKC central park I would have no disagreement with any of you but it's not. This will be a nice park that will serve those both near and far from it.
Not defending anything, but the park goes from 4th all the way to almost 19th, so I'm sure there's more to it than that strip shown in that diagram.
Incidentally the park at 5th and Telephone has a high amount of parking for its size...
If anything isn't pushed right up against the street with no surface parking lots, it will be attacked. Their argument is, "oh, there is a difference between bad suburbia and good suburbia". The bad suburbia is suburbs that are suburbs and the good is suburbs that are turned into urban environments. It's all a front to urbanize everything.
Again, I like this park and think it will do fairly well. Like I said, I would consolidate most of the parking into a structured garage, but other than that it is great.
It looks thematically similar though doesn't it?
Hope they do better in implementation, compared to how the Riverwalk turned out, which if I recall was supposed to compete with the Bricktown Canal when it was announced. I _NEVER_ see anybody walk by that "river".
Yeah, the riverwalk in Moore is disappointing. It could have been turned into such a neat water feature and instead it's just a drainage ditch behind the buildings. The developer probably looked at it as a feature to overcome rather than a feature to incorporate into that development.
I'm looking forward to this park being built and I'm really hoping that the Farmer's Market can become something more like the one in Norman.
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