From Mayor Finch:
City to Kickoff Parks Master Plan Project
Public invited to meet with Sasaki Associates
Mayor Bill Finch will join Sasaki Associates in the kickoff of the City’s Parks Master Plan project during an open forum at Washington Park on Thursday afternoon. Sasaki Associates, a national urban design and landscape architecture firm with offices in Boston and San Francisco has been chosen by the City to create the first Parks Master Plan in nearly 100 years for the Park City.
This kickoff is the first of many opportunities the public will have to interact with the design firm during the planning phase, which will take approximately six months to complete.
The Parks Master Plan is part of the Mayor Finch’s BGreen 2020 Initiative, and the goal of the Master Plan is to expand the City’s current green spaces and create parks/green spaces within a 15-minute walk of every City resident by 2020.
The event will take place Thursday from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Washington Park, corner of Barnum and Noble Avenues, Bridgeport CT – by the gazebo. After the introductions and discussion, attendees can accompany the design firm and City staff on a tour of William Barnum Park at the corner of Barnum Avenue and Harriet Street and the proposed Knowlton Park site at 305-405 Knowlton Street.
In case of inclement weather, the event will be held at City Hall Annex in Conference Rooms A& B.
Maybe Sasaki Assoc. can come up with a plan to fix the freaking potholes in this city?
Mayor Green Jeans suffers from “Greenish Envy!” Where is Frederick Law Olmstead when we need him?
City’s infrastructure is falling apart and Finch is romping around in our parks. He is double-parked.
Every administration I can think of has dumped tons of money into Washington Park all to no avail. We are going to build a park on Knowlton St? Why? Who the hell is going to go there, the local drug dealers? Bill if you build this park could you please install needle disposal kits there?
The city can’t take care of what it has now and this jerk wants to add more useless parks. Bill, where is the money coming from?
It’s not the new parks that scares me, it’s the ones they want to eliminate.
TC, SHAME ON YOU FOR SUCH A COMMENT! The East Side is not what it used to be and Washington Park is a much cleaner and better-maintained park now.
Celia please, I am just stating fact. I know we have dumped a ton of money into Washington Park because when I was on the Park Board I voted to do so.
As far as a Park on Knowlton St., take a ride down there. Why would we take property that could be on the tax rolls and put a park there? We have only a small land base in all of Bridgeport which means only so much taxable property. If we keep making parks who is going to pay for it?
If Mayor Green Jeans wasn’t so beholden to the Gospel According to Mario he might see selling off city-owned property (other than City Hall Annex) would be a cost-effective way of increasing the tax rolls. for example, the Black rock Bank & Trust building at Fairfield Avenue and Brewster Street. It was occupied by Joe “Snake Oil, Anyone?” Celli and his (allegedly) nonprofit organization. Now it’s vacant. There have been at least two potential buyers but they backed out. Why? Could it be that purchasing the building requires payment of a large tithe?
The building just sits there. The front entrance on Fairfield Avenue has become a repository for trash and a urinal for drunken revelers. The municipal parking lot between Wilson and Brewster is the preferred business location for the local prostitutes.