I've got no beef with Dr. Berry's descendants. They sold the City Of Moore....... no wait, they sold you and me and all the other residents of Moore, 3 parcels of land for an aggregate total of 1,549,001.00 Moore tax payer dollars. Parcels R0077714, R0077715 and R0167319. Look it up. Makes you wonder what it would have cost us if the City wouldn't have agreed to name the Park after their father. Isn't it interesting how the little details (like naming rights) are not mentioned until well after the vote. Our neighbors to the North got to experience this very same thing with MAPS. Pay for the Bricktown Ballpark and after it's built guess what... it's now the Southwesten Bell Bricktown Ballpark. There were some PO'd OKC taxpayers when they found out. Hmmmmm..... I wonder if that 1.5 mil would have built a Railroad underpass on 4th street. Now that project just might save a life or two.
Why not just Berry Park or Berry Commons?
Okay, that last one sounds socialist. Hopefully park isn't too socialist sounding though?
Well first of all the underpass is going to happen, eventually, and that'll most likely come at the cost of the state, not the city, although I could be wrong.
The land is prime real estate located in the heart of Moore that could have sold ten times over a long time ago.
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It's not going to be called "Berry Park Farm." That was simply a graphic illustrating the borders of the farm land belonging to the Berry Family.
The official name of the park is "Dr. Curtis Berry Central Park." But as I said before...while that will be the name on the signs, everyone will simply call it Central Park in much the same way that folks identify "Tom Strouhal Little River Park" as "Little River Park."
In my old neighborhood, nestled at the foot of the Front Range of the Rockies, The "Berry Family Farm", c. '72 finally consisted of Dave and Dan. Two of the biggest "growers" and "importers" of, then-illicit, natural organic and chemical man-made mood altering substances available at the time. This is one reason why the unofficial name of the new park in Moore carries with it less than positive connotations. "Not's Berry Family Farm" maybe could be run up the flagpole to see who salutes?
Back in 2012 when the city had an Engineer look at the underpass idea they estimated the 4th Street underpass to cost around 10 Million.
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I'm sure it's something they'll tackle after the park is well underway, if not completed. I'm still unsure how they'd address the businesses that are close to the tracks, does anybody know if the results off those studies are publicly available?
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The meeting minutes go into somewhat detail about the information
http://www.cityofmoore.com/sites/def...uncil.min_.pdf
Other then that it was not presented in executive session so you may be able to contact the city and get the report.
Update:
MOORE — An amphitheater for outdoor concerts, an aquatic center, a farmers market and a 52,000-square-foot recreation center will be among the attractions at Central Park, scheduled to open in Moore in the fall of 2015.
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A recreation and aquatic center are among the facilities scheduled to open in the fall of 2015 in Moore as part of the community’s Central Park. Voters approved the funding for the park in November 2012. Artistic rendering provided
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A recreation and aquatic center are among the facilities scheduled to open in the fall of 2015 in Moore as part of the community’s Central Park. Voters approved the funding for the park in November 2012. Artistic rendering provided
“We thought it could be a game changer for Moore, and I still believe that, and we all believe that,” said Todd Jenson, director of parks and recreation.
“You can do so many kinds of things, it’s just phenomenal, and that’s something that we’ve never had the opportunity to do before.”
Jenson said the idea for the park came about in late 2011 as part of the parks master plan, PATH 2022. He said he proposed to the city council and parks board a “regional destination kind of park in the central area of town.”
Funding for the park to the tune of $25.1 million was secured by a referendum Moore voters approved in November 2012.
- Moore moves forward with Central Park development | News OK
What's the update, the proposed monument? Must be a slow news week..
So few trees...
Soonerliberal: There will be a lot of trees..and big ones too. We (the committee) decided that we did not want any more fairway type parks. They will be there...with lots of shade
Moore Monthly has opened voting for the new park name at this link
I sure hope they don't go with Legacy Park since a Legacy Park is already being built at UNP in Norman.
Not to mention, Hafer Park in Edmond that you have to drive to get to (which it sounds like this will be a LOT like that with their water park and pool on the same land), Will Rogers Park in OKC which you have to drive to get to... and several others. They are all over Oklahoma. Even the park on 12th Street is one you almost everyone drives to get to it.
Sometimes you have to step back a little bit to see everything.
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City Council Approves Name for New Park, Recreation Center and Aquatic Center
And as work continues on the high-profile project, the process to name the new park, recreation center and aquatic center is now complete. The new park will be called Dr. Curtis Berry Central Park and the recreation center and aquatic center will be called The Station at Central Park.
- See more at: News | The Moore Daily
The Central Park link in the above post takes you to the OKC Central Park thread. Might want to fix that. I can see that the forum is doing to us. Can't view the BB Code that is responsible. Had to underline mine to keep it from happening to me.
Use the appropriate code and replace with Central Park.
This is done by using the Link button and hot linking the URL you want to open if Central Park is clicked on. In this example I've hot linked it to The Moore Daily article. Got to thinking after I wrote this that you're already familiar with hot linking as you already do it in many of your posts.
We live here in Moore and were pretty excited about this park, but we are really disappointed in how this is being handled. We had our Property Taxes increased to pay for the park and I guess that's ok, but when we saw the fees that they are charging the residents to use the main features, well that kind of sucks. These fees seem to be very high IMO, and then they open up access to the parks main features to outsiders (for a fee) and I don't agree with that either. It almost appears that the city may be using the park as a profit center.
Now I will admit that I am frugal, but it still seems inappropriate to me!
Are you sure about the property taxes.... pretty sure it was a sales tax that is paying for the park.
The property tax increase was to pay for a bridge most of us that are paying for it will never use.
I wasn't real enthused about the prices to use the fitness center either but I will still put the walking trails to good use and visit the Farmer's Market.
How much will it be for Residents of Moore to purchase a pass?
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