Sketch of planned Wall Park, with "The Great Lawn" on the site of an existing surface parking lot. Credit: Friends of White Flint
A group of residents, business owners and developers in White Flint will lobby the County Council for $6 million to help build a parking garage and replace the surface parking lot at the Kennedy Shriver Aquatic Center with an expansive green lawn.
The board of the Friends of White Flint, a nonprofit community group, voted at its meeting Tuesday to go forward with an advocacy campaign for the project with the slogan “Un-pave paradise. Pull up the parking lot.”
Amy Ginsburg, executive director of the group, said the green lawn, which would increase the size of the existing Wall Park at Nicholson Lane and Old Georgetown Road to about 8 acres, was envisioned in the 2010 White Flint Sector Plan as the central civic space for an area expected to grow rapidly in population and density.
“We kind of deserve this,” Ginsburg said Tuesday. “This was promised to us and we need it. It’s got to be a vital part of our community and we can make it happen now.”
But the creation of the green lawn depends on other projects—including the construction of a parking garage behind the Kennedy Shriver Aquatic Center
