For the second year in a row, the City of Quincy will be participating in international Park(ing) Day on Friday September 18th. The event is being sponsored by Ward 5 City Councilor Kirsten Hughes, Mayor Thomas Koch, the Quincy Chamber of Commerce, and the Department of Planning and Community Development (PCD).
This year’s theme, Re(Cycle) Park, will center upon Hancock Street as the Hub of the New Quincy Center and highlight recycling and the City’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Network Plan by featuring interactive games and way-finding directions for the myriad people, places and things that one can easily access by bike or on foot in Quincy.
Park(ing) Day is a worldwide annual open source event where citizens, artists, and community groups convert street parking spaces into ‘PARK(ing)’ spaces, or temporary public spaces.
This conversation-generating public intervention began in 2005 when design studio Rebar, of San Francisco, transformed a single street parking space into a tiny temporary public park. In the last nine years, Park(ing) Day has spread across the world and has created opportunities for citizens to collectively reimagine and reinvent public space as the heart of their community.
PCD has identified two parking spaces at 1468-1476 Hancock Street in Quincy Center as the site for this year’s project. The proximity to recent urban redevelopment projects such as Adams Green and the Town Brook Enhancement serves to underscore how Quincy is working to cultivate a vibrant and rich urban environment where all neighborhoods can share a strengthened connection to the City center.
Stop by for a nosh and a chat anytime between 7:00am and 4:00pm, take part in fun activities, share your thoughts and join the conversation by tweeting @QCParkIn and #QCParkIn.
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