Name the Park at Police Cove

The Police Cove Committee is looking for some suggestions for the park to be built at the former location of the police station.

  Barrington's Police Cove Committee is asking for help from the public to name the park to be constructed this summer at the cove. It released the following information: The committee has been busy working on details to the park and are looking for naming ideas.       What: Construction to the newly designed park at Police Cove will soon be underway and the town needs your help in naming the park.   When: Submissions are due by May 15, 2013 by emailing them to phervey@barrington.ri.gov, or dropping them off at Barrington Town Hall-attention Phil Hervey, Town Planner.     History of site: The town-owned waterfront property just west of the Barrington Bridge was the former location of the Barrington Police Department. The police department …

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9:32 am on Saturday, April 6, 2013

-- Barrington's Police Cove Committee is asking for help from the public to name -- the park to be constructed this summer at the cove. I vote for: "If You Put a Traffic Light in Front of This Park, I Will Come Over and Throw Toilet Paper in Your Trees" Park.   more ›

Public Art, Contest to Name Park at Police Cove on Committee's Table

Police Cove committee meets Wednesday to finalize details for public art, food trucks and a contest to name the new park.

The ad hoc committee that has designed a new park for Barrington's Police Cove -- a site on County Road near the Andreozzi Bridge over the Barrington River -- meets tomorrow night, March 27, in Town Hall. The meeting starts at 7 pm in the Council Chamber on the second floor. The agenda includes three items of business that dominated discussion at the February meeting: A new item of business involves the storage of the floating docks that are part of the design for the park. The committee is already soliciting public art projects for the park through the callforentry.org -- a national arts website that works with municipalities to solicit permanent art projects for public spaces. Several proposals have already been submitted, said Town …

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Park at Police Cove to Get Public Art, Food Trucks, New Name

A name for the proposed park on the Barrington River near the East Bay Bike Path at the Andreozzi Bridge also is expected to come out of a community contest.

The ad hoc committee that has designed a park at Police Cove in Barrington plans to solicit public art projects for the park through the callforentry.org website. The committee also will be distributing a request for proposals (RFP) for mobile trucks to sell food at the park, which lies between the East Bay Bike Path and the Andreozzi Bridge over the river. And the committee will hold a contest to name the park. Details for the public art, food vendors and contest will not to be finalized until the next meeting in March. But the committee spent a couple of hours Monday night reviewing drafts for the public art solicitation and food vendor RFP and agreeing that the park should be re-named with help from the community. Callforentry.org is a …

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Renaming 'Police Cove', Food Truck Rules on Park Committee Table

The Barrington committee designing a new park at 'police cove' meets tonight in Town Hall with some unfinished business.

The ad hoc committee that has designed a new park for Police Cove in Barrington meets tonight, Feb. 25, in Town Hall. The group's first meeting since last fall will take place in the Council Chamber. It starts at 7 pm. The agenda includes three items of unfinished business, according to Town Planner Phil Hervey: The committee envisions utilizing the future park as a site for shows, exhibitions and built-in art works. The committee has already built into the design for the park a location for food trucks and vendors to set up shop. But it still must determine the interest with a request for proposal (RFP) to be sent out to potential vendors, and guidelines to handle any food trucks. The committee also is leaning toward renaming the park …

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Police Cove Park Plans Tweaked

The committee working with a consultant to build the park at Police Cove also wants to seek public art proposals and a possible name for the new Barrington park.

After a summer hiatus, about half of the committee charged with designing a park at Police Cove in Barrington got back together Tuesday night, Sept. 18, in the Town Hall with its consultant to look over final site plans. The group perused 17 pages of site plans described by the consultant, Steve Derderian of Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., as “about 85 percent complete.” The committee members also viewed a variety of suggestions for LED lighting fixtures and poles, benches, bike and boat racks, picnic tables, shade features and concrete pavement. They chatted about adding some “public art” to the park between the East Bay Bike Path and the Andreozzi Bridge off of County Road. And they agreed to solicit prospective names for the 1-acre site …

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Help to Name Park at Police Cove

Barrington's Police Cove park committee meets at 7 pm; so does the Housing Board of Trustees.

The committee that has been designing Police Cove park meets at 7 pm in the Council Chamber in Town Hall to put some finishing touches on the plan for it and to come up with a way to name the outdoor venue. The Barrington Housing Board of Trustees meets at 7 pm in the Barrington library meeting room. Take in a movie at the Barrington Senior Center at 12:30 pm every Tuesday. Another tennis cardio-fusion class will be held at 6 pm at the courts at Chianese Memorial Park on Centennial Street; it will move indoors to Centre Court if it rains. Triton Swimming offers workouts for intermediate and advance swimmers at 5:30 am at Barrington Beach or the East Providence Boys and Girls Club.

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Police Cove Park Fun Has Begun

The committee, consultants and town planner met Tuesday evening to take the first steps toward making a park at Police Cove in Barrington a reality.

The fun has begun for the committee and consultants designing a new park at Police Cove in Barrington. Members of the Police Cove Park Committee met with the consultants from Vanasse Hanglin Brustlin and Town Planner Phil Hervey Tuesday evening to iron out details for the final plan and to look at potential amenities, such as benches and shrubs and pavement materials. The group also heard a brief presentation from Bill Dessel, owner of Billy’s Restaurant in Barrington and Billy’s food truck, on criteria that should be used for selecting food vendors to set up in the park. VHB, especially land-use specialist Steve Derderian, is working under a new $60,000 contract to prepare the final plan for submission to the Coastal Resources Management …

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Park Poll: Offer Seating, Water Access

A Patch poll on the most favored uses for the proposed Police Cove park in Barrington indicates that plenty of seating and access to the water would be the biggest draws for the location.

Benches, chairs, and tables in a seating area that overlooks Police Cove in Barrington would be the biggest draw to the park proposed for that location near the Andreozzi Bridge off of County Road. The second biggest draw would be easy public access to the water, according to a Patch poll. It ran for about a week soon after the public workshop on the proposed design for the park was held by an ad hoc committee that has been working on the concept with a consultant for months. Those two “uses/activities/attractions” combined for 47 percent of the votes cast by Patch users in the poll. The poll asked users to choose 1 of 10 uses/activities/attractions that would make the park a desirable destination. The choices were easy public access to …

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Park Designers Want Your Feedback

Barrington's Police Cove Park Committee invites you to a public presentation on Monday evening to review the design concept chosen for the County Road site in Barrington.

It's your turn on Monday, Jan. 30, to weigh in on the conceptual design chosen for the proposed Police Cove Park in Barrington, and to toss out ideas to make the park a popular destination. The public session will run from 7 to 9 pm in the Council Chamber in Town Hall. The ad hoc Police Cove Park Committee has been reviewing concepts since late last spring for the vacant one-acre site off of County Road at the Andreozzi Bridge over the Barrington River. Now the members of the board and the design team want your recommendations and suggestions. "Designers are looking for ideas to make Police Cove a destination that draws people from County Road, the East Bay Bike Path and the Barrington River," said Town Planner Phil Hervey. The evening …

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