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NRPA Launches "Parks Build Community"
Date:6/26/2009

t; says Barbara Tulipane, NRPA CEO. "The purpose of our first Parks Build Community effort is to demonstrate how neglected urban parks can be rehabilitated and improve the lives and health of people who live around them."

NRPA's first Parks Build Community project is Northeast DC's Marvin Gaye Park. Once dubbed "Needle Park" due to rampant drug use, NRPA is joining the District of Columbia and a number of non-profit organizations in transforming the previously neglected park into place where children can play and experience their community like never before. Volunteers and city workers have removed over 3,500,000 pounds of trash and debris, and collected over 9,000 needles from the area so far.

"What's happening here at Marvin Gaye Park can really be a national model for how communities - locally and nationally - can pull together and reclaim and embrace their public parks and public spaces," says Neil Albert, City Administrator for the District of Columbia. "We certainly appreciate NRPA's work here and we look forward to their continued partnership."

DC's design for the revitalized Marvin Gaye Park focuses on the following overarching goals:

 
  • Strengthen the community connections to the park and from neighborhood-to-neighborhood across the park
  • Strengthen the park's connections to schools
  • Celebrate the unique communities surrounding the park
  • Recognize the cultural contributions of Marvin Gaye and other neighborhood and nationally known individuals
  • Improve the health of the park and the community through the use of sustainable design practices
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