Moran Plant Redevelopment

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Your Ideas and Comments: June 15, 2005

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

Too many buildings, too much traffic on the waterfront. Stop while you are ahead. Tear down Moran Plant�we need more parks! �Peace Park�

1. Expand the sailing center into this building; more so than today. The high open space can be used for sail lofts, storage, etc. 2. Climbing gym similar Petraglyphs, only much larger. 3. Training center for the Coast Guard and others involved in rope rescues. 4. Training center for the Fire Department, i.e., a building where they can do live fire training. Stamford, Connecticut has such a building.

Outdoor amphitheatre for free movies (evening) and sculpture park (larger, outdoor installations). Use inside as a movie museum to display featured director�s biography (of movie being shown). Maybe UVM Film Department could run movie shows. Maybe UVM Art Department would have interest in renting/using remainder of building for art classes (i.e., large outdoor sculptures). Art display would always be changing. People would walk in/out�no parking or cars on bikepath. Darlene Scarano

How about a magnet school or alternative school of some sort with meeting rooms available for various local groups? There would have to be a bus so that parking wouldn�t be an issue. Also, whatever the solution, perhaps there could be a restaurant or caf� on the 1st Floor to bring in revenue. The people hanging out in the park or on the bike path might like to get a snack. Locally grown food could be featured to help local farmers. One more idea: plow the bike path in the winter so people can run and walk on it, on their way down to get a snack at the new caf�.

I would suggest that the Moran Plant be torn down and that more open green space be created. As Burlington grows and the waterfront attracts more visitors and families it will be important that there be sufficient room for people to enjoy the waterfront. The City should be commended for having the vision to develop the waterfront so that everyone can enjoy it. What the City now needs to avoid is overdeveloping the waterfront to the point there is insufficient room to enjoy it.

Public theaters�performing spaces. Something that could be used for festivals on rain days. After school programs and other classes to help occupy kids. Anything but the broken down eyesore that exists today.

This building needs to be demolished and the space used for a business, etc., that brings tax dollars to the city. If recreation is planned�consideration should be paid to distance from parking area, etc. Older citizens can�t walk great distances. Enclosed shelters should be erected for bus riders. ECHO is a great plus to our lakefront. Perhaps something along those lines would draw people to the area and produce revenue. Provide education for all ages.

Tourists come from all over not to see more buildings and development, but to see the lake, which the scenic view is gradually vanishing. You now must climb up the hill such at the N. Prospect Street area to catch a glimpse of lake and mountains. Best tear down the Plant, and save at least a little space for public use, such as boat dock, picnic tables and no more.

Hello . . .We need to know the history of Burlington. The building should be used for a museum, �The Burlington Museum�. Public area and money for the upcoming projects in Burlington. People will leave the ECHO Center and go to the museum . . .

Do not tear it down, it looks too beautifully industrial! 1. Grange Hall. People can rent the rooms out to hold conferences around social issues. This would keep big spenders away and keep social justice issues thriving in Vermont!

Please use space of Moran Plant for green space. That would look best with the present looks of the waterfront.

YMCA! Used year-round. I am a member of the Y; I have never experienced any proselytizing (crusading or recruiting) by any rightwing Christian groups. Even though the Y is tax-exempt, but the improvements they offered to make to Lake St./Depot St., etc., were significant!

Tear it down! Need to make the waterfront more boater-friendly. Perhaps a top-notch marina/restaurant facility that is welcoming to all. A waterfront restaurant would be a great draw year round.

This is public land and should remain available to the public at large. The Moran Plant building is nothing special architecturally, and I wonder what damage it does environmentally to the lake (sitting there rotting). I feel strongly that it should be razed and the land used in a natural way. Perhaps grass, gardens, baseball or soccer field, simple amphitheatre, playground, or just a continuation of our lovely waterfront park. Thanks!

The Moran Building must be torn down. No matter how it�s renovated it�s too ugly and big. The site should be low and as small as possible for its use.

1. Tear down the building. 2. Sell the steel for scrap. 3. Sell the bricks for reuse. 4. Build a municipal marina with gas pumps, bathrooms, boat ramp, and parking lot for cars.

I think the Moran Plant remains should be razed as soon as possible and future plans have goal of maintaining open space for the enjoyment of city residents and visitors. We already have too many tall buildings on Battery Street which infringe on the view of the lake. This is a special location, the location should capitalize on the water and natural environment.

Both member of this household strongly agree. Tear it down! Its architecture is unworthy of our waterfront. Then consider: 1. Planting green grass, arbors, flowers. 2. Build a beautiful and innovative sailing center and picnic area. 3. Volleyball, croquet, bowling pitch, shuffle board. 4. Keep the sculpture garden (!) Expand it to include metal and stone sculpture that kids can climb on�add to it each year.

Tear down the Moran Plant. It�s ugly, polluted, and will perpetually continue to draw development proposals because it exists and because of its height. Make the site into a public events/festival venue, preferably year-round. P.S. What does �RFP� process mean? You use the term but don�t define it; I don�t know what it means.

Class �A� hotel on the waterfront�Ritz Carlton type. It will take a lot of money to renovate the Moran Plant.

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