Entrada Park
At the intersection of Cerrillos and Don Diego / Guadelupe is a triangle of empty land, roughly 100x150'. Right now it is only dirt, and is sometimes used to park old cars on. Quite an eyesore. The parcel lies at the northern entrance to the Don Diego neigborhood, and also along a pedestrian route in and out of downtown, along Cerillos. Starting in the summer of 1998, we have been working to make this into a 'pocket park'. It would be a small sculpture garden, with 3 sculpture pads, where pieces of art get placed for a year at a time. In addition, there could be a marker or sign welcoming people to the neighborhood. The plantings will be chosen to provide as much shade as possible, and be drought-tolerant. The Calendar (see below) shows the whole history.
Current status: Rock work and planting - come volunteer! We need your help.
- Calendar, meetings, people, current status.
- Original proposal for the park
- Newspaper article on 31 Aug 98, in the New Mexican
- ..and an editorial on Sep 2nd
- We built a 3D model, and have engineering plans. Here are some pictures of the model.
- Here is the 1-page proposal to get it funded under CIP, and the accompanying cost estimates we did, based on the current plans.
- Reducing the lanes on Don Diego. We lost this one.
- Pictures of the groundbreaking ceremony, 18 October 2002.
- Pictures of the rock work, November 2004
- Article in the Albuquerque Journal of 12 January 2005
- The planting plan, the electrical plan, and the drip hose plan
- Spring 2005 planting activities
- Maps - before, during, as-built