In this latest round of proposals, the nonprofit group, Charlotte Center City Partners, was the first to get its plan on the table. The group's president Rob Walsh and Bank of America executive vice president Jim Palermo, have presented a plan for an eight-acre park in First Ward, close to the city's growing arts district, according to a published report.

Local landscape architect Jane Alexander says, in a published report, Charlotte has no green place where you can go and watch people and just be by yourself. Queen City residents have talked for years about having a park that would be as important to Charlotteans as New York's Central Park is to New Yorkers.

A group of influential residents share the vision put forth by Charlotte Center City Partners, but they think the park should be built on three blocks in Third Ward, near Ericcson Stadium. In their Center City 2010 plan, the city and county had specified Third Ward as the right spot for a park.

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