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Summer 2009
The second annual Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest returns to Marvin Gaye Park to showcase hot neo-soul and hip-hop artists. This year, headliners of the event include Teisha Marie, substantial, Enoch 7th Prophet, Head-Roc and his
Fall 2008
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Park Improvements Enter Final Stage of Preparation
Ground-breaking is expected later this year for the new playgrounds, stages, gardens, PlayGarden, stream, and more. Find out how you can help improve the park. Contact Brian Rodgers at the RiversideCenter, 398-PARK.
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Lighting Up the New MarvinGayeTrail
The new 1.6-mile intermodal trail through the park is now 90% complete, and the lights are now on in most of the park! Completion of this trail-blazing $3.5-million project, featuring a widened trail, traffic-calming curb extensions, lighting, new bridges, and bike and other amenities, is set for this coming Spring.
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Parks & People Grows Green Jobs
Parks & People coordinated 300 of the Mayor’s Green Summer Youth Job Corps in intensive reclamation and improvements in Marvin Gaye Park this summer. This Fall, Parks & People is expanding its Community Greening Initiative, with job training and planting of hundreds of trees throughout the stream valley. Want to learn how to plant and take care of a beautiful tree that will last a century? Interested in receiving a special 75% discount Tree Reward? Contact brodgers@washingtonparks.net or call Brian Rodgers at (202) 398-PARK.
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Woodson Reconstruction Begins
Demolition of H.D.WoodsonHigh School has begun, preparing for a $99-million new school at the heart of Marvin Gaye Park. The state-of-the-art new school campus, set to open in Fall 2010, will be integrally linked into the hub of the park inways that the old school never could be.
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Heart & Soul: A New Life for the Historic RiversideCenter
The RiversideCenter at Marvin Gaye Park’s Heritage Green, on the corner of Division and Foote, has had a storied history as the place where Marvin Gaye launched his professional music career, and where generations of Washingtonians have come together next to the Park. Riverside has recently won improvement grants from the HSC Foundation, DC Great Streets Initiative, Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, DC Department of the Environment, and Community Foundation for the National Capital Region. Now this town hall and program center for the stream valley is coming alive with new heating and air conditioning, flooring, handicapped accessibility, and kitchen/ café.
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