Details of Emory Village Pocket Park Revealed
Decatur Metro | March 9, 2011
As soon as the Emory Village roundabout is completed, the Alliance to Improve Emory Village hopes to build the above “pocket park” at the corner of North Oxford Road and North Decatur Road, which currently plays the part of an unfortunate and needless extension of the defunct Chevron gas station’s concrete pad.
As you can tell from a quick glance at the image above is so much more than a concrete street corner. It will include a creek-esque “water feature”, trees, shrubs, and stone seat wall, and green space. According to Emory’s release, “Benches and seating spaces to accommodate 40 people will be installed. Eight of the more than 50 new trees that will be planted in the Village will be in the park.”
The Alliance says it still needs to raise $40,000 by June to build the $300,000 park.
If you’d like to study this park “concept plan” more closely, check out this PDF.
h/t: Fresh Loaf
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I’ve been wondering what they were doing with that space. Love it.
Is it an actual creek? Or just creek-like?
I thought the Chevron wasn’t defunct, it just gave all appearances of being “defunct.” Don’t they still sell gas (or has it recently become a “late gas station”?)
That Chevron station is not defunct, though it is not exactly a Chevron gas station any more. It still sells Chevron gas, and it has a great mechanic, who is honest, and can fix your car! We buy our gas there, and he maintains our cars.
Hilarious! Obscure the real creek; install a water feature styled after a creek.
I still think the Chevron is going to keep most of its “concrete parking lot”. Terrible use of space in perhaps one of the best real estate plots after completion of the roundabout. I would love to see a restaurant with outdoor seating pop up in that space.
Amen to that! Get rid of that ugly gas station!
What is going to happen with the space diagonally across from the Chevron, where the BP used to be?
It will include a “creek-esque” feature? I like the use of “-esque”. Our house has a “lawn-esque” feature.
What’s the latest scoop on the other planned park near Emory?
http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/11/11/dekalb-buys-land-for-neighborhood-park-near-emory/
What makes a bridge “faux?”
When it only spans a “creek-esque feature”.
When your ankles get wet?
Will the faux bridge be complete with faux trolls?
..and would the father of those trolls be a faux pa?
(chuckles at faux pa)
Maybe the “water feature” is actually leftover Vietnamesesque soup tossed out from Doc Chey’s? That would make it a pho bridge.
If there is a bridge toll…..
fee faux pho phum.