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Franklin Park Conservatory to expand
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
By Lisa Halverstadt
The Franklin Park Conservatory will add two rooftop gardens where partiers can sip cocktails and another on the grounds designed as a backdrop for brides.
The goal? To make the 112-year-old E. Broad Street conservatory the Central Park of Ohio, and attract more of the events that help pay for its larger mission of horticultural education. The new additions could allow for about 150 more events per year.
By spring 2009, the conservatory is to add a 4-acre community garden, a pavilion fashioned to look like a brick carriage house, landscaping examples for home gardeners, a production greenhouse for horticulture programs and a community garden center that would house a resource center, a meeting room and offices.
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Interesting. I wonder if the new areas will be open to regular Conservatory guests, or if they’ll only be for private events, like weddings & such?
The future planned expansions sound fairly promising – expanding outward more into the rest of Franklin Park. The place has come a long, LONG way since I went to middle school about a block away (which was pre-AmeriFlora), but is still going to need a lot of love before it could be called the “Central Park of Ohio”…
I am always glad to hear that people support the conservatory. It would be much worse if they had to shut down becouse of lack of interest. It’s a great place to visit and a wonderful venue for a wedding.
Wow, I’m almost too young to remember AmeriFlora. (Don’t remember much there, and the one thing I do remember was something that got me in trouble with my fourth grade teacher …) But still, I like to see what they’ve done with the place and what they’re doing with it. It would take a lot to make that place “Columbus’ Central Park,” especially given its location (just based on location, I think Goodale Park has the inside position … literally, just being closer to the center of town), but they’re definitely turning it into something really special, and hopefully something that will not just have a positive effect with respect to horticultural education, but with respect to the whole neighborhood out that way as well.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
By QUINN BOWMAN
Well-heeled corporate donors, local politicians and Franklin Park Conservatory volunteers were on hand last Wednesday to break ground on the first phase of the local landmark’s master plan near the conservatory’s soon-to-be-altered Palm House.
The conservatory worked with state and local governments, including the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, to develop a multi-tiered plan for improvement and expansion. Government and private donors have contributed $14-million of the $20-million goal for phase 1.
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June 18, 2007
By John Matuszak
How do you top the gardens of the Franklin Park Conservatory?
With more gardens, literally on top of the roof, along with more space for weddings and other private events and community gardening facilities.
The $20 million in improvements to the 112-year-old landmark on the east side of Columbus were officially launched June 4. To date, $14 million has been raised toward the goal.
“As beautiful as it is, after all the work is done, it will be even more beautiful,†said Mayor Michael Coleman, standing before the Palm House where he and his wife, Frankie, were married, and where Coleman was sworn in eight years ago. “As it gets better, we get better.â€Â
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anyone else getting tired of Coleman’s canned cheese speaches? :lol: