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Option for more open space on Veterans Plaza
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Started this discussion. Last reply by richard jaeggi May. 4, 2007.

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Let's Make Veterans Plaza a Place that Unifies

There are many strong reasons to remove the ice rink from the Veterans Plaza and build a smaller pavilion. These include:

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Posted on May 16, 2007 at 11:24pm — 1 Comment

Veterans Plaza: The math about areas of use

The existing “green” artificial turf space is approximately 31,000 square feet of unfettered, highly flexible open space that varies from 100 to 150 feet wide and averages about 210 feet in length. The proposed plaza with it’s large roof and rows of trees leaves only about 10,050 square feet of open, unroofed, and un-stepped surface for its main plaza. This main area averages only 40 foot wide (about the length of thre

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Posted on May 15, 2007 at 9:28pm — 2 Comments

Please see in this site's Forum the photo "Silver Spring Veterans Plaza Option 1"

Last week I posted (it's under richard jaeggi's name) an opinion piece called "A Plaza for Everyone, Everyday" that described my understanding of the pros and cons of the roofed pavilion and ice rink that dominate the current design for Silver Spring Veterans Plaza. It also listed my suggestions that the ice rink be moved to the open space in front of the proposed future library site, and that the roofed pavilion be made much smaller to open up more of the plaza

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Posted on May 4, 2007 at 12:24am —