For many, Battery Park is the ideal place to play on a warm, lazy day and now there will soon be more to see and do.

During the City Council meeting on May 1st, 2000, Developer Malinda Moulton presented her plans to re-develop a little used section of the park that extends to College Street. That section would still be open to the public, and would also serve Moulton's new multi-purpose development on the corner of College and Lake Streets. With their new project Moulton is hoping to be forming a partnership with the city to redevelop the park, to make it much more public friendly, to have our black box drama theater open up on the park so there's a lot of drama going on. They are even talking about getting the symphony involved in a small little amphitheater we're creating so we can have music.

The city council approved the plans in hopes to reap rewards from the project as well. Officials have agreed to take part in the redevelopment, because they hope the space can provide one more reason for people to visit the city's waterfront. For the City, the benefit is that this is a partnership with a private developer, Main Street Landing. It will result in a significant expansion of Battery Park. It'll also result in private development activity on the waterfront that will broaden the tax base, bring economic vitality to that region.

The project will cost $200,000 dollars and will be split between Moulton and the city. If all goes well, work on the project could begin by September and completed in a year. The photo about is of Developer Malinda Moulton presenting her plans to the city council on May 1st, 2000. Malinda first presented the bottom development plan sketch of the Waterfront building and the presented the top sketch of the building that would be in the lower Battery Park area, which runs along Battery Street.




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Main Street Landing Co. set to break ground on
$11.5 million project on Burlington's waterfront