A children’s museum for the Chapel Hill community is a great idea – already tried and true. To the organization’s appreciated credit, its energetic directors are seeking an improved location.
Lately a possibility is a yet undisclosed but potentially desirable site in Carrboro. This notion is commendable in that it recognizes a community-wide location. Chapel Hill and Carrboro are in fact one community and a site in Carrboro enhances that idea. More facts of course remain to be learned.
Meanwhile the Kidzu Board has asked the Town of Chapel Hill to consider providing a new site in the Chapel Hill-Post Office/Courts building – quite a nice location with primary essential services already located there.
If it hasn’t yet been pondered, I’d like to propose another centrally-located but under-used municipal spot for Kidzu: the top of the Wallace Parking Deck. It was good enough a couple of years ago to be selected for a municipal business/residential site, when it fell victim to insufficient finances.
It’s virtually unused and has the most adequate parking possible (eifht under this space). It’s obviously available. It must be structurally satisfactory since it was chosen for a more complex use. Locating Kidzu there would not prohibit development above it.
–Am I off base with this suggestion?
