In the past week, carpenters screwed 10 banana-and-mustard-colored triangular planters, a bench and a table to a plywood platform taking up two parking spaces on K Street NW. Then they came back and touched up the paint and put up reflective safety posts. On Sunday, ferns and lavender are set to go in.
And on Tuesday, Washington’s newest park is to open to the public.
“I told my sister, ‘Hashtag: It-just-popped-up!’ ” said Randy Parz, one of the builders.
The District has started allowing people to take over parking spaces and turn them into year-round mini-parks. San Francisco helped spawn such spaces, dubbed “parklets.”
Read the rest of the story at the Washington Post.
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