Design Charette Planned in Downtown Parkville this Week
Four days of planning charettes are to be conducted in downtown Parkville this week and the developer behind the proposed project is asking for the public to attend.
The charettes, which will be held every night at the former site of the Cafe Cedar at 7 p.m. in English Landing Centre, are being hosted by the Miller family and 180 design — a local architecture firm.
“[The Millers], along with some surrounding property owners are developing 37 acres where our business is currently located here in Parkville. Millers Landscape & Lawn Care will be moving to another location to make room for a better, more beneficial use of the land we hope will reconnect Parkville and provide for an even better community to live and operate in,” Miller said. “We would like to bring some form of “New Urbanism” by means of a mixed use development to the area and want to involve everyone in the process.”
Miller hopes to have a detailed design of the project on Thursday evening, a project he said will effectively link downtown Parkville with “uptown” Parkville — the area encompassing the 45 Hwy corridor.
Connecting Parkville has been a theme pushed by Jim Allen and Tony Borchers of The National’s Five Star Development. Along with the Miller family, Allen has met with other local developers and luminaries such as Don Julian and Gary Worden in the hopes of “tying” the community together through a physical link, such as pathways and a transit system perhaps made up of electric cars. Downtown stakeholders are said to be exploring an electic people mover concept as well.