Recent surveys, including one by NeighborSpace last fall, have put safe places to walk at the top of the list of recreational amenities important to County residents. This is not surprising, given the pervasively low walk scores that exist in the County. And the pandemic has done nothing but exacerbate this demand: 650,000 people used […]
NeighborSpace has received a grant of $35,000 from the Chesapeake Bay Trust’s Outreach and Restoration Grant Program to begin construction of Flannery Lane Park in Gwynn Oak. The grant follows a community charrette and subsequent survey of surrounding residents, who expressed almost unanimous support for a park that was both beautiful and functional in terms […]
By Patrick Filbert, Program Manager The Green Neighborhood Challenge represented a conscious, concerted effort to DO MORE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENING. Efforts like this are key to moving forward as a joint, environmentally conscious community. NeighborSpace called and you answered with 164 responses to our Green Neighborhood Challenge Survey. The survey was aimed at collecting more […]
NeighborSpace is pleased to announce the addition of four new board members. They include: Aaron J. Barnett, a longshoreman and the current Vice President of the local International Longshoremans Association. He is also President of the Powhatan Farms Improvement Association, which serves as the NeighborSpace stewardship partner at Powhatan Park. Aaron lives in Lochearn. Larry […]
Together with the Turner Station Conservation Teams, Inc., NeighborSpace presented a case for support of a new half-acre park in the Dundalk neighborhood of Turner Station as part of a #GivingTuesday Campaign. You more than stepped up, donating over $4,500 for the cause – THANK YOU SO MUCH! The project is important because of: (1) […]
*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* (This is the third in a series of articles about a partnership between NeighborSpace and the Turner Station Conservation Teams to create a new park in Turner Station next year. The first may be found here and the second here). In previous articles about our reasons for investing in Turner Station, we’ve discussed the […]
(This is the second in a series of articles about a partnership between NeighborSpace and the Turner Station Conservation Teams to create a new park in Turner Station next year. The first may be found here). In the course of public deliberations over the development of a liquefied natural gas import facility and gas […]
“The place was born in an out-of-the-way spot, before racial integration and as a direct consequence of racial prejudice.” So wrote Sun Reporter, Jonathan Pitts, in an article about the Dundalk neighborhood of Turner Station in 2019. NeighborSpace is drawing attention to it, once again, because of land the organization has acquired in a section […]
This week, while going through my blog feeds, I came across something that gave me pause. It was a post by the Project for Public Spaces (PPS) on the topic of “equitable development.” The upshot of the piece was this: “While ending police violence may be one of the most urgent needs, systemic racism infects […]
Adelaide Bentley Park, like the story of East Towson, is a case in perseverance. Words alone cannot describe what the process of creating the park has been like and many do not understand how hard it is to maintain it. No matter what you do, water flows, wind blows and plants grow. A site like […]