GGW: NoMa wants your help naming its new large park

The NoMa Parks Foundation has begun the process of selecting a name for its new large park off the Metropolitan Branch Trail north of Florida Avenue. Taking into account some of the controversy over naming the space directly after the neighborhood, the organization is looking to local history and landmarks for possible ideas. Read More

The NoMa Parks Foundation wants your help to name two neighborhood parks. You have until August 25th to submit your suggestions. They’ll narrow it down to 4-5 options and take a public vote, with the results determining the recommendations to be submitted to the D.C. Council and Mayor Muriel Bowser. Read more.

The plans for NoMa’s first parks are finally in place. Now they just need some names.

The NoMa Parks Foundation is asking for the public’s helping in dubbing a 2.5-acre park on Harry Thomas Way and an 8,000-square-foot park at 3rd and L streets NE. Read more.

Ride into this fledgling DC neighborhood on the Red Line and you’re greeted by blocks of glassy new buildings. Adding parks could go a long way toward warming up the place, and NoMa is on track to get its first green space by fall. Read more.

There’s a park going in at 3rd and L Streets NE, in NoMa, and after nearby residents chimed in about what they did and didn’t like about the first three designs, the architects put forward new plans. Read more.