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Business Interests, Residents Mull Eight-Acre Park Concept

CHARLOTTE-Several plans are being tossed about by their supporters as they seek funding and a clear vision of how and where a new park can become a reality.

By Robert Anthony | Updated on January 26, 2001

CHARLOTTE-City leaders, concerned citizens, landowners and others are in heated discussions over the many issues concerning a new park for the Queen City.

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.

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