Flower or pocketpark the corner at Highland Ave/Parker Street

Idea:

This small business block with a large, amorpheous parking lot, serious drainage problems, and a pole waiting to be hit could use defining. How about ripping up some of the crumbling asphalt there and creating a garden triangle?

Benefit:

The corner is caddy, deceptively open, and crazy to navigate as a driver, bicyclist, or pedestrian. Perhaps a corner park, small version of the one at Stevens and Chelmsford, would benefit safety, and certainly would improve the look. It might inspire business there that lasts. (I am not sure how [Read more…]

Location:

OldIdea, Upper Highlands.

street trees throughout the city

Idea:

in addition to the proposed fruit trees just plain plant trees on neighborhood streets, residential and commercial alike, e.g., Norcross, Wilder esp. in vicinity of Morey School, Bridge Street; streets with sidewalks, and streets without sidewalks. Perhaps their care in the critical first few years could be offered to locals for “naming” rights.

Benefit:

The local streets wouldn't look so barren. Neighborhoods would have some natural beauty and the softening effect of trees. If someone is given "right" to care for trees, pride may enlarge to more of the surrounding space, and we neighbors may get to know each other and care.. In the [Read more…]

Location:

Citywide, OldIdea.