James Madison Park

The City’s James Madison Park Disposal Surplus Property Criteria and Selection Committee met on January 13, 2011. The tl;dr version: The committee will accept proposals that would move two of the houses, but won’t require a move and will in fact give a slight boost to proposals that leave the houses in place. No proposal that moves the Collins House will be considered. Proposals for the Collins House will be biased towards uses that have some sort of public accommodation. The committee drew up a list of criteria they’ll use to evaluate proposals as well as the weight each criteria will receive. Staff will use that to prepare a final version of the RFP, which the committee will vote on at their January 26th meeting. The target referendum (required because its a shoreline property) is February or April of next year.

James Madison Park will have to wait . . . but hey, what a few weeks after waiting for years.Given the responses received to...

Thanks to everyone who showed up to give us your opinions on James Madison Park. We heard testimony on whether the land under...

So, below is an open record that I have been sitting on for quite some time. It's always tough to know what to...

I said I'd do this last week . . . but alas . . . the best laid plans . . . sometimes "tomorrow"...

The Committees to deal with the Office of Neighborhood Support and James Madison Park?The resolution to create the Office of Neighborhood Support committee was...

Well, that didn't quite work out as expected, but I feel good about our decision.As expected, the committee decided to sell the two smaller...

Two weeks ago, an item that was never introduced through the council magically appeared on the Board of Estimates agenda. That item was...

Is the James Madison Park Committee actually going to meet?from Rolfs, Daniel date Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:06 PMsubject James Madison Park Property...

It's going to meet, really, truly. You won't be able to hold your breath until it happens, but here's the latest,...

The boys and I (I'm sorry, but its hard not to notice when there are 8 guys - counting the staff - and me...

Come tell us your opinion tonight!I've blogged for the past few years about this topic about improvements needed to the park, what should happen...