Moran Plant Redevelopment

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Your Ideas and Comments: July 27, 2005

Thank you to all who have submitted ideas for the future of Moran!!

More room for ECHO but keep the Sailing Center.

Whatever use, i.e., convention center, biosphere, skating rink, etc., retain the sailing center.

After appropriate renovation with sump pumps and stable ground cover, create an underground storage facility for small boats during winter time. The Sailing Center could operate the facility. The City would share in the income generated.

A natural re-use of the Moran Plant would be to create a community fitness center along with the Community Sailing Center.

Conversion to a youth or teen center combined with the Sailing Center would make a great re-use of the Moran Plant.

Demolish building and creative a winter/summer co-use. Winter skating and curling venue. Summer-sailing center.

Create a revenue generating facility for waterslides and rides in combination with the sailing center.

Recreation and Community education center (like Church Street Center classes). Art, language, sports, etc. Classes/workshops run by Burlington City and UVM Extension and Burlington City Recreation Department. Public Education Facility. Include gallery and performance space.

Time to tear it down and allow strategies to develop out of community need or vision.

1. Since parking on waterfront is at a premium, the use should be related to waterfront activity. 2. Use the idea of power generation, but relate it to needs of the present and future. Sun, solar power, wind harvesting power, use fuel from recycled vegetable oil from local restaurant deep-fryers. 3. Place for local (organic) farmers to sell produce, flowers, crafts�saving fuel by buying locally. 4. Restaurants for local owners to sell locally produced goods. 5. Art, theatre, music�small and local.

Take down the Moran building, which is long overdue. It has been wasting taxpayers money from 20-30 years. Let�s catch up with Plattsburgh! 1. Water park and green space. 2. Some commercial building and lakefront restaurants. 3. Also lake fronts hotels or motels on small size (1-4 floors). Also open Depot Street to traffic�one way down and out by Main or College Street. Right now we are using for a dog-walk! Taxes at our best!

Demolish building. Re-establish original native plants, manage as wildlife habitat. Could be used as education site for people to learn about lake coast ecosystems. Work with VT Chapter of Nature Conservancy or ecologist Elizabeth Thompson to rehab the site back to native plants and animals.

Please maintain the Sailing Center�s presence on the waterfront! Rent some space for office/commercial ventures�sail makers. Keep ground level for community activity/resource (rent rollerblades, bikes, eat/food). Subsidized artist studios on ground and top floors (with elevator and view!) gallery.

1. Art museum/gallery. 2. Public library. 3. Live/work spaces. 4. Public community center: indoor tennis/indoor racketball/pools/basketball. 5. Indoor rock climbing public facility. 6. Children museum. 7. Elderly assisted living. 8 Low income housing. 9. Theater-for plays and music.

A city-sponsored recreation center. Facilities similar to YMCA, but $5-10 membership for Burl. Residents and free to adolescents. Pool(s), courts, yoga/dance room, climbing walls (inside and out on highest wall). Upper levels renovated to office space for rent to generate revenue for operating cost. Also, renovate top floor/roof for glassed in restaurant available for wedding receptions, graduations, proms, etc. with best sunset dinners in town�again to subsidize operating costs. Submitted by Brian Callanan.

Offer both indoor and outdoor activities. Indoor0November thru April. Outdoor May thru October. Indoor-badminton, croquet, horseshoes, ping-pong. Outdoor- badminton, croquet, horseshoes, ping-pong.

Tear down the Moran Plant. Plant a garden with lots of space for benches, picnic area, little gazebo. Allow a few small businesses to sell sandwiches, ice cream drinks. Have the shuttle go through. Michaella Collins.

Remove the building and leave open space. Transfer the sailing to the boathouse or build a small building for sailing and body warming in the winter. Use the space from the fishing pier to the sailing docks for community. Skating. Senior citizens could enjoy the view.

Art Gallery. Caf� on top! Public space�rooms for rent for classes. Roof top gardens. Apartments�affordable housing. Space for Sailing Center and Maritime Museum.

A marina with storefronts. Townhouses in the flavor of Nantucket surrounding with outdoor markets and shops. Parking and a tram system stretching up to Battery Park. TK. Burl.

Take it down and make it more public green space. You can never get back green space once you�ve given it away. Thanks for asking our opinion. Ruth and Jack Drake

Has anyone thought about the birds and bats that probably live in the Moran Plant? These creatures are insectivores and probably consume tons of insects every day. Where will they live when the Moran plant is �improved�. Also, the building as it is, the wild land around it are beautiful in their ugliness. The art area of granite sculpted cairns which I refer to as �Stonehenge� has become a sacred site for Pagan mediation, ritual and sacrifice. The Moran site is very important just as it is.

A sailing school and center in one area. Space for local artisans working on their crafts�which can be purchased. Upper level small hotel and restaurant. A small replica of Boston�s Faneuil Hall.

1. Extend North Beach�remove sheet piling from �urban resource��create long continuous beach access to shoreline. 2. More dockage�both city and transient. Provide shower and laundry for boaters who visit (similar to private marinas) and encourage visitors by boat. 3. Create a place where the Community Sailing Center can thrive. 4. Extend Waterfront Park north. All above idea require Moran Plant removed.

Why occupy yourself with matters that are of so little concern to most of the people you supposedly represent. Tear the monstrosity down! You can�t make a silk purse out of a sow�s ear. No architectural legerdemain will convert the Moran eyesore into something worthy of our new waterfront. Move on.

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