Final Weekend - Designing the Myrtle Avenue Pedestrian Plaza Exhibition

This is the final weekend of the ‘Designing the Myrtle Avenue Pedestrian Plaza Mini-Exhibition and Pop-up Workshop’. Please stop by 352 Myrtle this Saturday, between 12 – 5pm to view the submissions to the Call for Ideas and best practices complied by the Partnership staff, and to participate in the creation of a vibrant neighborhood public space on Myrtle.

Last weekend, during reception and gallery hours, many community members came out to review and discuss plaza designs collected through our Call for Ideas and our public space best practices. Formatted so that you can respond directly to the proposed plaza designs or use a map of the future plaza site to voice your feedback, the workshop allows you to share your recommendations for the programming and activities, amenities, greening, and aesthetics of the space and see what your neighbors are suggesting.

After the workshop, the Partnership will be sitting down to look at common requests and recommendations, compiling a list of feedback themes and frequently mentioned programs, amenities, etc. Together with the Call for Ideas submissions and best practices, the results of the workshop will be used in our first meetings with the NYC DOT selected design team, taking place in the upcoming months.

The Call for Ideas, released in August of 2009, was intended to gather plaza concepts from professional and amateur designers that would serve as a conversation starter and inform the design process. Though the official call was closed in November of 2009, the Partnership is accepting design proposals on an ongoing basis to be shared for community review online and added to our ‘Design Book’, if you are interested in contributing, you can find more information here.

In case you missed the reception, you can view pictures of the event (and see workshop attendees in action) online; the eight designs on display can be seen on our Flickr site as well. We encourage everyone to stop by 352 Myrtle this Saturday, between 12-5pm and if you can’t make it, please leave your comments on our Flickr, the project’s facebook page or email them to sarah@myrtleavenue.org.