Can the public-private partnership that created Pack Square Park work in another town? Representatives from Harrisonburg, Va., think it might, and on Friday morning, Oct. 28, they toured the place to get some ideas.
photos and report by Bill Rhodes
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The bill-laden month of April
April is a busy time in Raleigh. State legislators have introduced more than 1,000 bills this session, only 18 of which had been ratified at this writing. Meanwhile, the General Assembly is checking off bill-filing deadlines and jamming committee schedules with hearings on this session’s crop of proposed legislation. Here are a few pending bills […]
Green Scene: Building a movement
Bill McKibben thinks big. His 10/10/10 initiative, billed as a “global work party,” is intended to elicit “bold energy policies from our political leaders … on a scale that truly matters.” The goal, organizers say, is not to reduce global warming one project at a time but to send a pointed message to legislators about […]
Green Scene: Testing the waters
On Sept. 1, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it’s considering proposing the former CTS electroplating plant in south Asheville and a related Mills Gap Road site for possible inclusion in the National Priorities (Superfund) List. Area residents have reported numerous health problems, and Xpress spoke recently with one of them, Gabe Dunsmith, who’s […]
The Beat
Taking the plunge In a death-defying leap of adrenaline-fueled faith, Asheville pro-kayaker Pat Keller recently survived a purposeful plunge over 90-foot-high Linville Falls in Avery County. In "Asheville Kayaker Makes Illegal Trip Down Linville Falls," The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that the ride was likely the first-ever descent of the triple-tiered falls in a kayak. Keller, […]
Into the Vault: Outlaws, contamination, sexual harassment suits
Now online in the Xpress Files: the sexual harassment suit against the city and the Asheville Police Department, the APD’s defense, a letter from the EPA targeting a man with a contaminated well, the Outlaws biker indictment, and more.
City to Conservancy: Work out debt if you want to manage the park ***UPDATED Wednesday 12:30 p.m.***
A letter from City Attorney Bob Oast to the Pack Square Conservancy reveals that the city of Asheville wants the Conservancy to repay over the next year approximately $2 million that the city is owed. Until then, the city “cannot agree to allow the Conservancy to operate or manage the park to any substantial degree.” The city also wants an independent financial audit of the Conservancy.
All of Pack Square park is now open to the public
As of today, Pack Square Park is 100 percent open to the public, notes Jeff Joyce of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce.
—photo by Ben Teague
Pack Square Conservancy scratches pavilion for park
In a presentation Monday morning, members of the conservancy said they have redesigned the site once reserved for a $2.5 million pavilion.
Conservancy gives approval to art museum’s design plans
The Pack Square Conservancy board on Wednesday gave its approval of the Asheville Art Museum’s design of a new glass structure that will serve as both a giant window onto the heart of downtown and an inviting entrance into the museum.
It’s Splasheville, and we’re not talking about the rain
Crews working on the new Pack Square Park have been testing Asheville’s newest water fountain, an interactive water feature in the heart of the $20 million downtown park.
Pack Square Park takes shape with sod, fountain work
Pack Square Park got a green makeover today with the installation of nearly 18,000 square feet of sod. On Thursday, the park’s signature fountain will receive its crowning piece with the installation of a 20-foot-diameter brass ring.
Tiles go in at Pack Square Park
A Weaverville artist has begun the Pack Square Park installation of hundreds of clay stoneware tiles, including 400 brown and blue square ones created and signed by students in Buncombe County Schools.
Conservancy focuses on park pavilion: Should it be LEED certified?
The director of the Pack Square Park Conservancy said the board on Wednesday wrestled with questions concerning the park’s proposed $2.46 million pavilion.
Asheville City Council
Council OKs Pack Square Park changes, budget Zoning approved for affordable apartments in West Asheville A-B Tech students to build Oakley Resource Center Council member Carl Mumpower has never been one to hold back. As one of two Republicans on Council—and the self-proclaimed lone conservative at the table—Mumpower is often the most vocal City Council […]
Asheville City Council preview: April 14 meeting
Pack Square Park will be front and center at Asheville City Council’s formal session.
The Buncombe Commissioners brief: March 17 meeting
For their St. Patrick’s Day meeting, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners may have wished they had the luck o’ the Irish (or at least a stout beer), as the Pack Square Conservancy laid out their plans to raise the additional millions needed to complete the ambitious park renovations — and the state of the economy forced the county to delay consolidating their offices.
First phase of Pack Square Park set to open next month
The first phase of Asheville’s signature park is scheduled to be open in one month, after years of on-and-off construction work and the expenditure of millions in private donations and taxpayers’ dollars.
Downtown group offers volunteer help to complete park
Asheville Downtown Association members have offered to pitch in as volunteers to speed up the completion of the new Pack Square Park, ADA President Byron Greiner told the board of the Pack Square Conservancy on Feb. 4. The park in winter: Construction is proceeding on the new Pack Square Park, but the Asheville Downtown Association […]
Downtown businesses offer help to speed up park completion
An organization representing businesses in downtown Asheville offered volunteer help to speed up completion of the new Pack Square Park.
Pack Square Park pavilion construction delayed but still on tap
A $2.46 million pavilion planned for Pack Square Park will be built, the group overseeing the park’s construction decided Jan. 7, but construction won’t start until later this year. Postponed but not scrapped: A $2.46 million pavilion planned for Asheville’s new Pack Square Park will be built, but construction won’t start until next fall at […]