Hood Design Studio has unveiled three potential designs for the revamped McColl Park (formerly Polk Park) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Each design harkens to the site’s history and takes into account community ideas and input.
The former Thomas Polk Park is situated within Charlotte’s Independence Square. It’s recognized in history books as the site where Thomas Polk once lived and where the Mecklenburg Resolves was drafted, which set the groundwork for the Declaration of Independence. Prior to colonization, the site was at the intersection of an Indigenous crossroads and myriad historic trade routes.
In 1986, Danadjieva & Koenig Associates, a firm run by Angela
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