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Programming: • “7 th on 6 th” Fashion shows (for several years); JVC Jazz Festival; “NY Times Young Performers Series;” lunchtime concerts by Juilliard students; Monday night movies in the summer, “HBO Film Fest;” Bryant Park Grill (May 1995); Bryant Park Café (1995); 6 kiosks (food, drink, ice cream); bocce and chess games. • Each group or organization that contracts with the park to hold an event normally has its own event planner who coordinates the details (timing, number of people, seating, abiding to the rules of conduct, etc.) OVERALL ADMINISTRATION: • The administration staff has weekly meetings where they often have slide shows of other parks they have visited. Staff: • 1 Director of events and 1 Coordinating Supervisor • Maintenance and security staff: see above • There are approximately 50 staff people that help manage the BPRC. These include administrative staff, interns and support staff. The BPRC also uses the 34 th Street Partnership’s Design Department for various projects. BUDGET: Large portion = debt repayment Not including debt: Maintenance and security = 33% General administration = 50% Funding: $200,000 from the city Revenue: 33% from events 33% from concessions 33% from assessments: 34 th Street Partnership has ~ 25 members (Originally this number was much higher—75%) Barriers: • The biggest problem for the park is having to turn down events. At times, the city may instruct the park to host an event it would not otherwise choose. • BPRC encounters some difficulties when it attempts to make significant changes to the park, since they must be approved by the Landmark Commission. Capital investment: • Restroom renovation: $160,000. • Bryant Park Grill: borrowed $4.2 million loan to build restaurant and paid for $750,000 worth of tenant improvements • Chairs: 6-8 chairs are stolen every year and 400 are replaced for wear and tear. A NEW VISION FOR FREEWAY PARK 82
• Replacing blue stone in the park, fixing sidewalks, cleaning drainage system, horticultural improvements, and changing entrances. • Planning an information kiosk. Contact: Gerome Barth, Coordinating Supervisor for the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation (212) 768-4242 Post Office Square in Boston, Massachusetts DESCRIPTION Formerly the site of an unattractive 3 story parking garage, Post Office Square is now home to a beautiful, green 1.7 acre street level park as well as a 7 level underground parking garage in the center of Boston’s financial district. Date opened: Friends of Post Office Square formed 1983; Construction started in October 1988; Completed: Garage—October 1990, Park—Summer 1991. Features: Sculptural fountain; landscaping (trees, bushes and flowers)—several species on permanent loan from the Arnold Arboretum; park pavilion; two gazebo-like structures: one holds a café, the other serves as the escalator entranceway to the garage; benches, sitting walls. Garage: supplies 30% of area’s parking and is now a $12 million business. Size: 1.7 acres plus 7 floors (or 519,057 sq. ft) of parking PARTNERS/GOVERNING BODY The park and garage at Post Office Square represent a public/private venture between Friends of Post Office Square Inc. (a for-profit development company/civic corporation/” limited dividend corporation”) made up of 20 Boston firms and individuals, and the City of Boston. • Independent board: Bill McCall, Norman Leventhal, Ed Sidman, Jim Young, Ed Johnson, John Hamill, Ron Drucker. (Complete list TBA) • Profits from the garage are donated to the City of Boston and its Park Trust Fund for the maintenance of the city’s neighborhood parks (therefore Friends is “nonprofit by agreement, but for-profit by law.” – Weinberg) A NEW VISION FOR FREEWAY PARK 83
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