New Weather-Themed Green Space Opens in College Park – The Hyattsville Wire

A dramatic but small new park is now open in northern College Park.

As a so-called pocket park, Hollywood Gateway Park is designed to make maximal use of its smaller size by adding greenery and space for residents to meet up.

Based on the theme of wind and weather, the centerpiece of the $1 million park at the corner of Baltimore Avenue and Edgewood Road is a two-story pavilion overlooking the park that makes extensive use of long rods of bamboo and provides seating for residents waiting for a bus, having lunch al fresco, or reading. On a breezy day, visitors can hearthe bamboo chiming in the wind.

The City of College Park together with landscape architect Floura Teeter, partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to make Hollywood Gateway Park a place that educates the public about the climate and how weather works.

To compensate for the sites slope, designers cut a rounded concrete walkway into the side of the park, added a long slide for kids and added native plants to stabilize the soil. Most of the park is far below the level of Route 1, reducing noise.

The park also features a green roof, a stone rill to channel rainwater and a rain garden to reduce runoff to the nearby street.

The land was previously the site of a single-family home that was demolished after the city acquired the land.

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