{"id":21063,"date":"2014-02-18T10:48:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=21063"},"modified":"2014-02-18T10:48:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:48:12","slug":"moore-square-renovations-on-hold-awaiting-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2014\/02\/18\/moore-square-renovations-on-hold-awaiting-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore Square Renovations on Hold, Awaiting Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost five years after its initial conception, a plan to redevelop downtown Raleigh\u2019s Moore Square remains on hold as the city looks for another $14.75 million for construction. <\/p>\n

In 2011, the city issued a draft copy of the Moore Square Master Plan<\/a>, which detailed a number of new features planned for the park, including a central lawn, caf\u00e9 kiosks and public restrooms. <\/p>\n

The American Society of Landscape Architects in 2013 honored the plans, drawn up by Christopher Counts Studio of New York, with an award in the analysis and planning category. <\/p>\n

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Beyond the plan itself and a comprehensive tree and soil study<\/a> released in 2013, the city has yet to proceed on any of the redevelopment. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re currently waiting for funding to be available to be able to move forward,\u201d said Cassie Schumacher-Georgopoulos, a planner with the city\u2019s Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department. <\/p>\n

The remaining funds would need to come from the city\u2019s budget, said Schumacher-Georgopoulos. <\/p>\n

\u201cOr a bond \u2013 we put requests into the general public improvement, but there are a lot of requests that go into that,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

In order to get a bond for the park\u2019s redevelopment on the ballot in November, the department would require approval from the City Council. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something that we\u2019re hopeful we may be able to move forward with,\u201d said Schumacher-Georgopoulos.
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Although the redevelopment itself could be broken down into different phases of varying costs, \u201cwe ideally would have the full amount for the project,\u201d before taking any further steps, said Schumacher-Georgopoulos.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope we can move forward in the next one to five years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the funding is in place, we\u2019d be picking back up design services and moving forward with developing a schematic design, which would be a more detailed plan looking at grading and more at what your zoning requirements will be.\u201d

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Moore Square. Photo by Leo Suarez. <\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Kimberly Siran, chair for the city\u2019s Parks, Recreation and Greenway Advisory Board<\/a>, said for right now, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing that we can do or that is being done.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the time being, Siran cited a beautification project, scheduled for Feb. 22, and monthly cleanups in the park as \u201cother ways Moore Square is still alive in people\u2019s hearts \u2013 until we get funding, it won\u2019t change much, unfortunately.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waiting on an additional $14.75 million in funding, the Moore Square redevelopment project will remain on hold, with hopes to move forward sometime in the next five years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24061,"featured_media":21066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}