22 September 2019

Nice Idea: PARK(ing) Day Mesa 2019 > How Park(ing) Day Went Global But Not Quite Ready-For-Prime-Time Here

Your MesaZona blogger took the time (with high hopes) to go see a possible parking space transformation here at a Pop-Up event on Robson Street Friday afternoon - not once but twice. Once again there were more spaces than people!
PARK(ing) Day Mesa 2019
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View across Main Street
The Pit Stop Auto Shop
Here was the invitation sent by Augie Gastelum 
Join us in downtown Mesa for our very own PARK(ing) Day. The idea is that we transform an existing parking spot into a micro-pocket park for the day and see how people use the space.
We will be on South Robson Street near Chupacabra Taproom. If you feel inspired, feel free to convert your own PARK(ing) space into a pocket-park.

It was supposed to have looked like this image to left that accompanied the invitation.
It didn't . . . for any number of reasons.
The good thing was the social interaction + chance opportunity to meet and talk with Rob Wozniak, who's seen in the opening image seated behind the blackboard sign.
In other words, whatever Rob and the three other people did to get this off-the-ground worked for me!
We had conversations
 


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 PARK(ing) Day is a worldwide event held on Friday September 20th where parking spots are transformed into temporary public parks.
How Park(ing) Day Went Global
by Benjamin Schneider  
One tiny DIY parklet became a model for reclaiming streets around the world
For Park(ing) Day 2017, CityLab rode the wayback machine ... to learn how this global phenomenon came to be, and how it might just transform our cities.

(See a brief history here https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/09/from-parking-to-parklet/539952/)
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