Showing posts with label Media Coverage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Media Coverage. Show all posts
12.22.2009
VOTH: Rosedale Community Center Construction Will Soon Resume!
Voice of the Hill reports on City Council's recent progress on returning funds to each DPR project, including the Rosedale Community Center & Library (RCC&L) $16 million, and appointing Allen Lew, from the Office of Public Education Facilities Management, to manage the construction projects. Read the full article here
12.02.2009
VOTH Reports on the Rosedale Community Center Construction
Voice of the Hill reports on the neighborhood impact of the now shuttered Rosedale Recreation Center and how the proposed Rosedale Community Center and Library construction contract is in jeopardy, at least for the near future. Read the full article here.
NBC 4 Reports on the Rosedale Community Center Project
10.15.2009
Metrocentric Covers the Rosedale Community Center
Metrocentric briefly covers the new Rosedale Community Center and groundbreaking- HERE
10.05.2009
VOtH: Rosedale Community Center Set to Get Library
Voice of the Hill
Rosedale Community Center Set to Get Library
October 02, 2009
By Julie Westfall, Staff Writer
The soon-to-be-under-construction Rosedale Community Center will get its much-desired library, Mayor Adrian Fenty and Ward 6 D.C. Council member Tommy Wells promised this week at the center’s groundbreaking.
Though the D.C. Public Library board of trustees has yet to grant its official blessing, the mayor announced that at the least, a 4,000-square-foot structure capable of hosting a library would be added to the L-shaped design of the 22,000-square-foot new center at 1701 Gales St. NE.
“The next step is to get the library to say there’s going to be a library there,” Wells said, adding that he was confident he could win the board’s cooperation.
The prospect of getting a library on the site was in jeopardy over the summer. Library officials have refused to address the possibility of opening a branch there while they work on a citywide library assessment that won’t be finished until next year. In the meantime, the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation began to design the new facility.
And the center — originally budgeted for $12 million — needed $3 million more for a library. Wells managed to get the money earmarked for the facility during tight budget negotiations in July. The money did not appear in a preliminary May budget, but was in the council’s final budget. Wells would not elaborate on how the expenditure made it into the budget.
“I found it under a rock. I made a commitment to the community,” he said, adding that he worked closely on the matter with Ward 5 Council member Harry Thomas, who chairs the council’s Committee on Libraries, Parks and Recreation.
Slated for a summer 2011 finish, the center will replace the now-shuttered and smaller Rosedale Recreation Center but retain its swimming pool. Everything else will be redone. New basketball courts and a tennis court will be constructed. A small spray park will be installed by the pool, and a new football field will be carved into the center’s enormous green space.
The new building — a brick and glass structure — will house a large gymnasium, fitness room, game room, senior room and a multipurpose room.
“I am so excited. I hope I don’t cry,” said Sandra Phillips-Gilbert, the leader of the Rosedale Grassroots Organization, just before the groundbreaking.
Northeast Capitol Hill (ANC 6A) advisory neighborhood commissioner Gladys Mack, who helped the mayor scoop the first shovels of dirt, also cheered that the day had come.
“It was so important to me because we didn’t have anything for our children to do,” she said.
Various neighborhood groups, led by the Rosedale Citizens Alliance, will mount a fundraising campaign to raise money for future programming at the new center.
Now that Rosedale Recreation has shut down, some of its programs, including the day care and the computer room, have been moved to interim space nearby in the old Gibbs Elementary School building.
The above article was taken in its entirety from the VOtH website
Rosedale Community Center Set to Get Library
October 02, 2009
By Julie Westfall, Staff Writer
The soon-to-be-under-construction Rosedale Community Center will get its much-desired library, Mayor Adrian Fenty and Ward 6 D.C. Council member Tommy Wells promised this week at the center’s groundbreaking.
Though the D.C. Public Library board of trustees has yet to grant its official blessing, the mayor announced that at the least, a 4,000-square-foot structure capable of hosting a library would be added to the L-shaped design of the 22,000-square-foot new center at 1701 Gales St. NE.
“The next step is to get the library to say there’s going to be a library there,” Wells said, adding that he was confident he could win the board’s cooperation.
The prospect of getting a library on the site was in jeopardy over the summer. Library officials have refused to address the possibility of opening a branch there while they work on a citywide library assessment that won’t be finished until next year. In the meantime, the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation began to design the new facility.
And the center — originally budgeted for $12 million — needed $3 million more for a library. Wells managed to get the money earmarked for the facility during tight budget negotiations in July. The money did not appear in a preliminary May budget, but was in the council’s final budget. Wells would not elaborate on how the expenditure made it into the budget.
“I found it under a rock. I made a commitment to the community,” he said, adding that he worked closely on the matter with Ward 5 Council member Harry Thomas, who chairs the council’s Committee on Libraries, Parks and Recreation.
Slated for a summer 2011 finish, the center will replace the now-shuttered and smaller Rosedale Recreation Center but retain its swimming pool. Everything else will be redone. New basketball courts and a tennis court will be constructed. A small spray park will be installed by the pool, and a new football field will be carved into the center’s enormous green space.
The new building — a brick and glass structure — will house a large gymnasium, fitness room, game room, senior room and a multipurpose room.
“I am so excited. I hope I don’t cry,” said Sandra Phillips-Gilbert, the leader of the Rosedale Grassroots Organization, just before the groundbreaking.
Northeast Capitol Hill (ANC 6A) advisory neighborhood commissioner Gladys Mack, who helped the mayor scoop the first shovels of dirt, also cheered that the day had come.
“It was so important to me because we didn’t have anything for our children to do,” she said.
Various neighborhood groups, led by the Rosedale Citizens Alliance, will mount a fundraising campaign to raise money for future programming at the new center.
Now that Rosedale Recreation has shut down, some of its programs, including the day care and the computer room, have been moved to interim space nearby in the old Gibbs Elementary School building.
The above article was taken in its entirety from the VOtH website
10.01.2009
WAMU Covers Rosedale Community Center Ground-breaking!
Rosedale Slated To Get First Full-Scale Library
WAMU 88.5 FM
October 01, 2009
As D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty announced at this week's groundbreaking, the Rosedale Community Center will feature fitness and game rooms, public computers, a spray park and a library.
Rosedale has had access to the nearby R.L. Christian and Langston library kiosks, but never a full-scale facility of its own. Brit Wyckoff of the Rosedale Citizens Alliance says a library will help the neighborhood both financially and personally.
"Books are expensive, magazines are unbelieveably expensive, even the newspaper's expensive," says Wyckoff. Wyckoff says the library will establish "the fabric of a community, regardless of age or money or race."
Wyckoff says the library's design still is being finalized. The community center is slated for completion in summer 2011.
Rebecca Sheir reports...listen to the story here
WAMU 88.5 FM
October 01, 2009
As D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty announced at this week's groundbreaking, the Rosedale Community Center will feature fitness and game rooms, public computers, a spray park and a library.
Rosedale has had access to the nearby R.L. Christian and Langston library kiosks, but never a full-scale facility of its own. Brit Wyckoff of the Rosedale Citizens Alliance says a library will help the neighborhood both financially and personally.
"Books are expensive, magazines are unbelieveably expensive, even the newspaper's expensive," says Wyckoff. Wyckoff says the library will establish "the fabric of a community, regardless of age or money or race."
Wyckoff says the library's design still is being finalized. The community center is slated for completion in summer 2011.
Rebecca Sheir reports...listen to the story here
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