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Date Set for Final Cobb Park Community Meeting Before Construction!

Friday January 17, 2025

We’re pleased to announce that a final major hurdle before getting shovels in the ground at Cobb Park is happening Monday, January 27 at 6:30pm! That’s when the DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) and the DC Department of General Services (DGS) will host a community meeting to discuss the upcoming upgrades and construction timeline for this long-anticipated project. Your attendance and feedback are greatly appreciated! To learn more and RSVP, please visit: https://cobbpark.splashthat.com/

For those of you following along, this has been a seven-year journey since our January 2018 Public Meeting & Planning Workshop to get to this point and we are so grateful for the continued interest and support from the community and efforts from our DC government partners and elected officials including Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen. As we wrote back in February 2024:This is a major win for our Mount Vernon Triangle community, on whose behalf MVT CID has consistently advocated for more of these types of green, open, and public use space resources and amenities. We organized a community-wide public meeting and planning workshop and released our MVT CID Open Space Study in 2018, published this extensive community update on efforts to increase open space in Mount Vernon Triangle in 2019, and in 2021 led a successful effort to secure more project funding in the FY 2022 District budget. And with Councilmember Allen’s continued support, it appears that we now have the momentum needed to finally make this top community priority for which there remains overwhelming public support a reality.

The significance of this project cannot be understated. In addition to adding significant value to the quality of life for our current residents, workers, students, and visitors, Cobb Park also enhances MVT’s appeal to future residents, workers, employers, and visitors as well as the thousands of new students, faculty, and staff anticipated with the imminent arrival of the Georgetown Capitol Campus to downtown’s East End—contributing to MVT’s long-term sustainability in every possible way.

MVT CID extends its sincere thanks and gratitude to Councilmember Allen for his strong, steady, and vocal advocacy of this quality-of-life effort to deliver more greenspace through the reactivation of Cobb Park in a manner that is responsive our community’s needs.

Related Links:
MVT Celebration of Black History Month Closes with Tribute to the “Cobb” in Cobb Park” March 2024
Cobb Park Moves One Step Closer Thanks to Recent Push by Councilmember Allen” February 2024

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