2008 National Park(ing) Day Cities, Participants, and Maps

Boston, contact David Queeley

Charlotte, contact Marianne LeVigne
UNC Charlotte College of Arts and Architecture Park
Six parking spaces will become temporary green space dubbed the Block Fair. Like a state fair on the fairgrounds in the capital city, except on a smaller scale, the space will feature games, prizes, and cotton candy! Don't worry about not having enough streetlights when the sun goes down, as we'll be providing those twinkling little lights that you only see during the holidays. We also be environmentally responsible and donate or recycle our materials used for the park for a good cause. The majority of our materials will be pine bales, sod, pavers, and potted trees. Partners: Levine Properties and The Trust for Public Land.

Charleston, contact Lauren Gellatly, or visit the organizers page on Facebook. Also, check out the Press Release.
A downtown public parking lot at the corner of Church and Market Streets will be transformed with mini-parks, including a farmer's market, a mini-dog park, music-in-the-park, and a ping-pong park. Local design firms DesignWorks and I'on Group will partner on the event, along with the City of Charleston. Partners & Sponsors: City of Charleston; DesignWorks; I'on Group; Carolina Fresh Farms; Stono Market; Down to Earth; Alpha Dog Omega Cat; Import and Vintage Repairs

Chattanooga

Chicago, contact Matt Shaffer
The Trust for Public Land will be creating a park for the second year next to the future Bloomingdale Trail, on the 1800 block of north Milwaukee Avenue. The Bloomingdale Trail will be Chicago's first, and the world's third, linear park converted from an elevated train line. The Park(ing) Day park is also next to a future park and access point to the Bloomingdale Trail.

For Park(ing) Day 2008 Method, the San Francisco-based eco-friendly cleaning product company, will be hitting the streets with their style and substance approach and creating a mini golf course. Along with the chance to putt a hole-in-one, seating, shade and refreshments will be provided. This will be the first year Method has participated, so stop by and say hi - we'll be hosting a park in front of our Pop-up shop on N. Halsted St. and W. Armitage Ave. Can't wait to see you!

Cincinnati, contact Cincinnati Park(ing) Day or visit the Web site
ontact: Dan Korman, 513-721-7275, 513-373-5785
Visit: www.cincinnatiparkingday.blogspot.com
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 19, 2008
WHERE: Over-the-Rhine: Coffee Emporium, 110 E. Central Parkway; MiCA 12/v, 1201 Vine St.; OUTSIDE, 16 E 12th St.; Park + Vine, 1109 Vine St.

Cleveland, OH

College Station, TX, contact Philip Kent

Columbus, OH, visit the organizers page on Facebook, contact Jodi Kushins or visit the Web site

Costa Mesa, CA

Dallas, check out the Web site
Parking Day will celebrate the unique and creative atmosphere of the Bishop Arts District. Installations will have a focus on increasing awareness of efforts to improve the quality of life in Oak Cliff, Dallas's coolest, most diverse neighborhood. Partners include the Bishop Arts Merchants Association, Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce, and Bennett Miller Homes.

Denver, visit the organizers page on Facebook, or contact Lea Parks. Also, check out the Press Release.
Park(ing) Day is an opportunity for all Denver citizens to celebrate their parks system and to showcase the positive impact and need for more park space in Denver as well as other cities.

Des Moines, contact G.W. Justin Platts

Eugene, OR contact Erin Lamb

Flint, contact Sherry Hayden
Read the Press Release
In this Green Arts Project, local artists and landscape architects will create mini-parks in parking spaces downtown on Friday, September 19 on S. Saginaw Street between Second Street and Kearsley Street, from 10 am to 2 pm. Learn about recreation spaces within the City of Flint, and enjoy the street theatre and art installations. Partners: University of Michigan-Flint University Outreach, UM-Flint students, UM-Flint Center for Civic Engagement, Greenlinks, Cyclefit, Gould Engineering, Wade-Trim, Rowe Engineering, the Flint Institute of Arts, Salem Housing, the Good Beans Café, the City of Flint Transportation Department, and the Downtown Development Authority.

Goleta, CA Contact Kendy Radasky

Grand Rapids, contact Amy VanElsacker

Greenfield, MA

Hillsboro, OR
Take a quick vacation to our Purple beach on Main Street in historic downtown Hillsboro! We'll have a sandbox to play in, beach towels and volley balls. Don't worry if it rains, we'll have plenty of shelter as well! Brought to you by Yahoo!. Contact Lyniel Dao

Hollywood, FL, contact Elizabeth Chang
The City of Hollywood, Florida employees will be hosting a park in the Tri-Rail Station parking lot, a local commuter rail with convenient train service from Miami to Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach. National Park(ing) Day gives Hollywood the opportunity to promote green spaces and to celebrate our existing parks and green spaces. Riders will have a small oasis as they wait for their train and/or carpool. Be sure to stop by and enjoy our little retreat or just to say hello! Click here for a map to our park. City of Hollywood would like to thank Tri-Rail and FDOT for their support. Also, please check out Hollywood's parks here.

Honolulu, contact Kevin Chang

Ithaca, NY

Irvine, CA

Jacksonville, contact Andrea Goldman and download the Jacksonville Park(ing) Day Overview

Kenosha, WI
Armitage Academy's temporary park will not only be a pleasant place to sit and spend time enjoying nature, it will also have an environmental focus. Kindergarten - 8^th grade classes will be sharing information about a variety of environmental topics ranging from the plight of the honeybee and rain gardening to organic foods and oil spills. Upcycled products created by the children in the after-school program will be for sale throughout the day with all proceeds benefiting an environmental non-profit organization. The 3^rd grade class is creating a rainwater barrel that will be raffled off and the 5^th grade class will be displaying their garbage art in the park for all to view. Additionally, all students will be participating in a trash pick-up at Eichelman Beach, which Armitage Academy students recently adopted.

King of Prussia, PA

Lake Worth, FL contact Gael Silverblatt or Donna Ross
The Community Redevelopment Agency and the City Tree Board are hosting National Park(ing) Day in downtown Lake Worth. Nearly all 30 spaces at the parking lot on North J Street and Lucerne Avenue will be turned into parks. Neighborhood associations, 1000 Friends of Florida, Native Plant Society, landscape architects, artists, and residents are participating. There will be judging of the parks. Each Neighborhood Association creating a park will receive 50 Oak Trees from the City Tree Board, to be included in in the City's goal of planting 10,000 trees by 2013, our 100 Year Anniversary. www.lakeworthcra.org

Las Vegas, contact Guadalupe Lopez

Lauderdale Lakes, FL contact Kathleen Margoles
The City of Lauderdale Lakes, Florida Park(ing) park will be a grassy oasis created in the St. Croix mixed use development parking lot on State Road 7, the busiest thoroughfare in Broward County . The park will provide a bench, bistro tables and grass and potted trees. The St. Croix merchants are our partners in this event. Later in the evening they are providing entertainment.

Logan, UT

Lexington, KY
Latitude Artist Community
When: Thursday September 18, 11am-1pm, performance 12:30pm- 12:45pm
Where: In a metered spot on 2nd Street between the Carnegie Center and N. Broadway.
For more information: Bruce Burris, Crystal Bader, Latitude (859) 806-0195. Latitude will be displaying a sculpture called "Stuck" which includes a wheelchair a walker and a cane. Most everyone at Latitude helped create it, Latitude artist Ted Tiemeyer named it and describes it in this way " The wheelchair, walker and cane in the sculpture are stuck, like a lot of my friends, and can't get anywhere, cars will pass by it like they usually pass me by but maybe someone will stop to take a look". For more info visit http://latitudeart.blogspot.com/

Independence Place WHEN: Thursday September 18, Noon to 2 p. m. WHERE: In a metered parking space on E. Euclid Avenue in front of the Chevy Chase Plaza Building. Independence Place (IP), Inc. will be displaying a tactile state map of Kentucky which shows each county in the state labeled in Braille, done by John Glisson who is blind, a painting called Rock Garden done by Ruth Kennedy a visually impaired Senior, along with a sculpture called "Friends" done by an IP board member who has a disability and wishes to remain anonymous. Harley Cannon, local blind musician, will be in the Park(ing) space sharing his musical talent. Art will be displayed by another individual with a disability, Lanny Taulbee who is a 'Little' fellow, artist, and activist. Take a moment to stop by and discover one of the best-kept secrets in Lexington. Independence Place, Inc. impacts our community by promoting independence and full inclusion for people with disabilities in all areas of community life.

Loganville, GA

Los Angeles, contact ParkingDayLA
Bring your laptop to the parking meters in front of BLANKSPACES (5405 Wilshire Blvd at Cloverdale) and receive free Wi-Fi while working from desks in the street. Two parking spaces will be transformed into a mini-park with grass, tables, chairs and live music. Join BLANKSPACES for a day of free Wi-Fi, coworking and environmental support! We will having a Block party, with Music the event is free.

Madison, WI

Miami, contact green art USA or call 305.576.7616, or visit Facebook
For the second year Miami will be home to a Park(ing) Day park created by green art USA.org, "our Idea is to design a green art park(ing) spot, to show people how to entice their visual senses by placing green art in parks. It gets people thinking about how we can enhance the value of our life in urban environments. For us green art means art made with eco-friendly techniques, using recycled or reused material." says the green art USA team.

Milwaukee, WI, contact Virginia Lingham

Minneapolis contact Shanai Matteson
Visit http://tcstreetsforpeople.org/node/321
In celebration of National Park(ing) Day artists and advocates from Minneapolis and St. Paul will once again transform city parking spots into temporary urban parks, highlighting the power of even the smallest gathering spaces to encourage walkable, livable communities. Park(ing) Day projects will be clustered in Downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. Guided bike and walk tours will depart hourly from outside Government Center in Downtown Minneapolis and will visit Park(ing) Day projects, as well as some of our existing city parks.

Monterey, CA

Morgantown, WV

Mount Holly, NJ, contact Kathy Appleton
The Master Gardener organization of Burlington County, New Jersey, is sponsoring Park (ing) Day in Mt. Holly, New Jersey . Our program is run through the Cooperative Extension of Rutgers University. We have been working with Kevin Mizikar, who is the Economic Development Director of Mt. Holly, New Jersey . The township, especially Kevin, has been very supportive and cooperative in getting this project going for us. We were given two parking spaces in one of the municipal parking lots on Commerce Place near High Street. We will have many master gardeners throughout the day at our "park." We will have fact sheets in areas such as composting, rain gardens, lawns, pruning, and houseplants. Our 'park' will be set up as a mini park, with a seating area and many plants. We are looking forward to participating!

Newark, NJ, contact Tiffany Robinson
Taking a unique spin on Park(ing) Day, the asphalt playground at the Hawthorne Avenue School in Newark NJ, will be transformed into a "fun" playground and park. The RBA Group will be partnering with the NJ Tree Foundation to decorate the area with 5-6 feet tall trees and shrubs/flowers to create a park-like area with seating and reading materials. The kids will be engaged in physical activities such as hopscotch and jump rope, as well as various board games. Highlights of the day will include the Wheel of Forestry - a game intended to teach the importance of community and urban forestry and a special Art Wall for participants to sketch their idea of the school's future school playground.

New Haven, CT contact David Streever
National Park(ing) day is a national holiday celebrating the role of parks in public life. In many cities the event is held as a protest, to ask for more public parks & less car-centric city design. New Haven's predominance of parks begs a different goal: promotion & education regarding the parks system. We'd like to use this day to tell busy downtown citizens about the wide opportunities open to them all over our very green city, and encourage stewardship & enjoyment of New Haven's parks. We'll be downtown this Friday, September 19th near City Hall along Church Street. For more info contact David at dls@davidstreever.com.

New Orleans, contact Jane W. Apffel
TPL will create a daylong mini-park from 11 - 4 in the parking space in front of Saks Fifth Avenue. Students from the University of New Orleans (UNO) Department of Urban Planning and volunteers from the TPL New Orleans Office will hand out information about TPL projects in the region, and Saks will coordinate its window displays with the park. Additional partners in Park(ing) Day are City Park, the New Orleans Office of Recovery Management, and Parkway Partners.

New York City, contact Susan David or visit the Web site.
The Trust for Public Land Park(ing) Spot in front of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) was a big hit in 2007 and promises to be even better this year. A patch of REAL GRASS in New York City with a bench in the shade and leafy green plants will be the perfect spot for a picnic or a little break. Check out all the NYC parks here.

Turn your excess energy into electricity at our Purple Bike Park at 13th Street & 6th Avenue (Avenue of the Americas). Bikes will be set up for you to ride and the power you generate will power a laptop. Green energy for a green world. Brought to you by Yahoo! Contact Lyniel Dao

Oakland, CA
A tiny homage to the huge work done by landscapers, with special thanks to immigrant workers. I make gardens and landscapes for public schools in Oakland, so I am especially indebted to the crews.

Orange County, contact Jamie Stitzel and check out the Flyer/Map

Orlando, contact Mary-Slater Linn
Central Fla. Sierra Club will Park downtown at Lake Eola. They will be partering with a solar energy company to dispay some of the neat things we can run off of solar energy. Afterall, Florida is the sunshine state!
Other participants include: Borrelli and Partners, CB Richard Ellis

Palm Beach Gardens, FL, contact Carolyn Nelson

Pasadena, CA
On September 19th, 345 S. Lake Avenue (SW Corner of Lake Ave/Del Mar Blvd) participates in Parking Day. The South Lake Business Association is collaborating with EPTDESIGN, the South Lake Avenue architectural firm that designed South Lake's Streetscape Improvement project, which is currently under construction. So don't forget to enjoy a walk on South Lake and see the transformation of parking into "parks" - THIS FRIDAY!

Philadelphia contact Pam Zimmerman, join the Google Group, or visit the Blog.
With dozens of Park(ing) Day parks, planned, Philadelphia is very excited about our first Park(ing) Day. Parks will extend from river to river in Center City, and are sponsored by teams from the non-profit, design, and activist community. The range of parks is anticipated to include places to relax, a prototypical bike share, and installations that highlight the toll that paved parking takes on our storm water management system.

Pittsburgh, contact Emily Craig or visit the Web site

Check out the Press Release for details.

Plantation, FL, contact Sue Reed
The City of Plantation, Florida, will be installing 200 sq ft of toe friendly turf, native plants and trees, comfy seating, a picnic table, a bike rack and a bird bath (to the delight of our fine feathered friends), in the Whole Foods Market parking lot on Peters Road. From 9am - 3pm the public is invited to greet their friends and neighbors, relax and sit a spell, and enjoy a mini cool green oasis. Those who choose an alternate method of transportation to visit this magically transformed Park (bus, bike, or by foot) will be given a special treat just for using their internal energy and demonstrating their environmentally friendly efforts. If parks could talk in Plantation they would declare Hooray for National PARK(ing) Day!

Portland, OR, contact Daryn White
Read the Press Release
Portland Kimpton will close off an entire downtown block for National PARK(ing) Day, and will feature more than a dozen decorated parking spaces open to the public from 7am - 8pm at 506 SW Washington St., Portland, 97204. Later that evening from 4pm - 8pm, the block turns into the city's "Party In The Park" with an outdoor block party that wraps up the day's festivities for National PARK(ing) Day and features more than a dozen decorated parking spaces, a bluegrass band, BBQ, beer and wine gardens, games, silent auction and more.

Redwood City, CA, contact Chris Beth

Rochester, NY, contact Evan Michael Lowenstein or visit the Web site
In Rochester, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, and ARTWalk are sponsoring a community open-call for Park(ing) Day. We'll put the park into parking in several places around town, including in George Eastman House's parking lot-- a space that was once dedicated to gardens and growing food.

The theme of Rochester's Park(ing) Day is agriculture and community food systems. This is also the theme of P.L.A.N.T. (Place, Land, Agriculture, Neighborhood, and Technology), a joint Eastman House/Rochester Contemporary initiative that will illuminate the importance of greening urban land, agriculture, and community food systems.

Sacramento, CA, contact Karman Cates. More information at http://neighborhoods.org/sacparkingday.

St. Louis, contact Mara Higdon
Gateway Greening's park will emphasize the importance of promoting food-producing public spaces by featuring a host of edible urban orbs. Passers-by will enjoy a display of city-grown pumpkins produced in what was once an unsightly patch of weeds and sample freshly harvested apples from an urban orchard. Park visitors will also have the opportunity to get their hands dirty by potting up vegetable seedlings to take back to their own community parks!

Adjacent to the vacant lot cross the street from Globe Drug at 2626 Cherokee Street, local residents gather on a bright strip of green with the intention to meet one another and brainstorm strategies to create more permanent public commons. You might find -- sidewalk chalk, cold watermelon, accordion-wielding boat kids, a rousing game Apples to Apples, an impromptu yoga class, knitting needles and yarn to borrow, as well as the Cherokee Street Family Photo Album and the "Walking Blog". Whatever you got, bring it! Come find out who shares your neighborhood as we discover and describe the "heart and soul" of who and what's here now. www.cherokeestreetnews.org

Saint Paul, contact Shanai Matteson
Visit http://tcstreetsforpeople.org/node/321
In celebration of National Park(ing) Day artists and advocates from Minneapolis and St. Paul will once again transform city parking spots into temporary urban parks, highlighting the power of even the smallest gathering spaces to encourage walkable, livable communities. Park(ing) Day projects will be clustered in Downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. Guided bike and walk tours will depart hourly from outside Government Center in Downtown Minneapolis and will visit Park(ing) Day projects, as well as some of our existing city parks.

Salt Lake City

San Diego, contact Kathy Keehan or visit the Web site

Sanford, FL
We will Park for the 2nd year in downtown Sanford. Sierra Club of Central Fla. will partner with Keep Seminole Beautiful and the Central Florida Zoo. We all need green space-including animals! We will have some native plants and animal species to help promote more parks! We will be located in front of the Seminole County Services Building

San Francisco, connect with others on the Google group
Download the MAP
Jay & Michael's Wedd(ing) Day - 137 Scott St. 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Supervisor Bevan Dufty will arrive at 3:30 p.m. to officiate a very brief wedding ceremony. 137 Scott is 1/2 block of the "wiggle" bike route at Haight St. Michael & Jay are both longtime SFBC members and AIDSLifecyclers, and invite any cyclists who will be in the 'hood to stop by. Bike parking available in their garage. There will be 2 musicians for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music playing from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Van Meter Williams Pollack: 543 2nd street between Federal and De Boom
Our theme this year will be a sod covered car, A car will be parked in one of the spaces. Sod will be covering the entire footprint of the spaces and running continuously over the top of the car. The car would appear to be growing out of the earth, or alternatively, the car is being taken over by the park.

A "forest" of water bottle trees will grace the astro-turf lawn in the parking space in front of Electric Works, 130 8th Street. Passersby are encouraged to stop and have a drink of tap water (Hetch-Hetchy's best) dispensed from our ceramic water jug...and folks are invited to help create "flowers" made from plastic water bottles.

House of Water: 1906 Bryant Street.
This park(ing) is a meditation on the human relationship to water in the western United States. The presence of this ephemeral element sustains and supports our living environment. On a metaphorical level water is the foundation of the tons concrete and steel that form our cities and infrastructure. The structure that forms and defines this park(ing) is transparent and insubstantial - drinking cups stacked one upon another. Only the weight of the water that fills the cups gives it the stability to stand. The flower heads that float inside the cups are fragile, beautiful and totally dependent on the water that supports their weight. This park(ing) literally uses water to create a space for people to gather, calling attention to the beauty and strength of this element while highlighting the fragility of our relationship to it. http://lutskoassociates.com/

Rebuilding Together San Francisco's Living Room: Embarcadero at Howard St. Rebuilding Together San Francisco repairs and renovates homes and community facilities with the help of volunteers and sponsors, including community gardens, playgrounds, and public spaces. For 20 years, we have been providing this type of service, through a variety of programs, free of charge to qualified participants and our 'park' represents the warmer and safer living space that we strive to provide our clients (seniors, adults with disabilities, families, and community groups).

Golden Owl Park: 1026 Valencia
Here folks will enjoy lounging on benches or in the green grass next to a watering trough pond, amongst hanging plants and the aroma of roasting coffee. Special thanks to: Flora Grubb Gardens, Scene 2, Claire Mack, Roadkill and Cptn.Grayson of Napa.

The San Francisco Parks Trust: 1 Sansome Street at Market Street
... and partner organizations Visitation Valley Greenway and Mission Roots will team up to carve a chuck of green in the downtown San Francisco. Come check out the great projects that these three organizations have sprouting up all over the city.

Stop by the Yahoo! Purple Park on Montgomery St. and Minna in San Francisco. There will be a green space to relax in and wifi if you feel guilty for leaving your cube. We'll have a Y! Live channel and an updated Flickr stream so your friends (or boss) can check you out and chat. Also the Flickr bike that made an appearance at Open Hack Day 2008 will be there. This special bike is outfitted with a solar powered GPS enabled camera phone. Come say hi! Contact Lyniel Dao

The Sweet Spot: CasaSugar and the Sugar Girls Do Parking Day
Howard Street between 2nd and New Montgomery
9AM - 4PM
Come out and see the Sugar Girls at their sweet space featuring DIY projects, games, lots of candy, and more!
CasaSugar will be blogging all day from their Park(ing) Space. Additionally geeksugar will have the newest solar technology on hand to try out, and YumSugar will host a special tasting challenge (hint: some yummy sweets) from 12-1PM
More info on Casa at Parking Day: http://casasugar.com/tags/parking+day

Santa Monica, contact Susan Cloke
Download the Flyer
The parking area at the Santa Monica Pier will transform into an outdoor movie theatre for a free screening of Open Season. Valet bike parking available. Partners: Santa Monica Recreation & Parks Commission, Office of Sustainability and the Environment, and Pier Restoration Corporation.

Sausalito, CA
Title: Chess n' Games Park
Creator: RRM Design Group
Location: Bridgeway near Locust Street, Sausalito

Seattle, contact Laura Whorton and download the Seattle How To PDF
Download the Map

Capitol Hill Community Council: A mini-park on Broadway, right in front of the Vivace coffee cart. Come and visit - buy a coffee, enjoy the (temporary!) greenery, and learn more about the fundraising efforts for the John and Summit Park. We'd also like to thank SDOT and City Peoples for all the free plants. www.unpavingparadise.blogspot.com

The Berger Partnership PS is teaming with Weber Thompson to create a double lot park in the South Lake Union Neighborhood of Seattle. The park features a Zen garden for passers bye to rake and rearrange and a grassy open space with seating. During the morning Rain Fitness, located across the sidewalk from the park, will host 10 minutes of free yoga. Partners: Rain Fitness and Furney's Nursery.

Plein Air Park: 4864 Rainier Ave S
Stop by the Plein Air Park and spend some time painting "in the open air". We will have easels, canvasses/boards, as well as paints & brushes for you to use. You can also sit and sip a cup of coffee (donated by the Columbia City Starbucks) while you dream up your next creation. Don't forget to enter to WIN a painting created during PARK(ing) Day in our FREE RAFFLE.

Distraction Preserve: 4903 Rainier Ave S
Distraction Preserve, an altered parking spot along bustling Rainier Avenue South, has metamorphosed into a small Participatory Performance Pocket Park. With a shadow of a backdrop on one side and traffic on the other, visitors can rest their weary souls in patches of mobile grass. Come and delight in free dance lessons, concerts, or create your own distraction.

Re-Creation Park: 5609 Rainier Ave S
The basic concept for the 8 x 20' space is to to use found objects to create and embelish the site over the afternoon. In essence, the park will be community built upon a given framework.

Namaste Park: 5269 Rainier Ave S
At Namaste Park, you'll discover a tranquil setting along the hustling rush of Rainier Avenue. Nestled in a lush bamboo garden between Hillman City and Columbia City, the park offers a restful spot for a little yoga or meditation. Join us for a cup of tea!

Seattle Art Museum: University Street between 1st Ave. and 2nd Ave.
For the second straight year, SAM has teamed with TPL to create a lively park, a host of engaging activities and an open green space that downtown Seattle employees, residents and visitors can enjoy, if only for one day. Programs for SAM's temporary park include a midday sarod performance (a stringed musical instrument, used mainly for Indian classical music) by James Whetzel, a demonstration of urban gardening techniques by Seattle Tilth, a poetry reading by the Urban Wilderness Project and pastel drawing activities throughout the day.

Inside/Out: 223 Yale Avenue North
Two adjacent parking spaces are reimagined to juxtapose inside/outside. Stop by and take some time to relax, bring your (not dirty) laundry to hang on the clothesline, lounge on the porch, or sip your Vivace coffee on a cozy sofa. Located on Yale Avenue N between John and Thomas across from REI, in front of Vivace Coffee. Sponsors: Interface FLOR. Creators: Shannon Carpenter, Phil Duff

Spartanburg, SC, contact Cate Brandt Ryba
A landscaped Park(ing) park in downtown Spartanburg will provide downtown employees and visitors with a workday break. Seating, potted plants, and music will create a relaxing atmosphere for all. Storytime will occur for anyone wishing to

Springfield, IL

Syracuse, contact Paul Mercurio or check out the plans.
This year, Syracuseans will explore the potential of open space with four different park(ing) installations throughout Downtown. We will (re)think about how we eat, how we dress, how we relax and how we live. The four installations and their locations are as follows:
- The Dining Room Table by HarPeiPo, a collective team of Syracuse University students. West Jefferson Street & Franklin Street. By reintroducing the dining room table to the public, we hope do draw attention to our underused dining room tables and the distinctly American habit of dining alone
- Introducing Marie Antoinette by the Everson Museum. Walton Street in Armory. Have your picture taken with Marie Antoinette, or dress up as the superstar herself! This installation introduces the Everson's new exhibit in a distinctly public way.
- Green Oasis by the Doubletree Hotel. West Fayette Street & Franklin Street. Take off your shoes and enjoy the grass, flowers and shade of this green sanctuary.
- Sustainable Urban Living by the Alchemical Nursery Project. Water Street in Hanover. Interactive installation that will educate people about the basics of living sustainable and healthy lives.

Tallahassee, contact Anne Nelson and download the Tallahassee How To PDF and complete the registration form
In Tallahassee, National Park(ing) Day will be celebrated as part of the September 19 Downtown Getdown. TPL is sponsoring a "friendly competition" to see who can design and put together the most creative park in downtown Tallahassee. Ten organizations have signed up to create temporary parks in the parking spaces along College Avenue between Monroe and Adams.

Tampa, contact Alex Size
The City of Tampa will be celebrating National Parking Day