Big changes are coming to McIntire Park - both East and West!  Follow the progress through our Photo Chronicle: August 2012 … September 2012 … February 2013 … April 2013

What has happened so far?

 September 2012

It’s official! After a full year of planning and nine public meetings, the Charlottesville City Council approves a conceptual design for the City’s first BOTANICAL GARDEN in McIntire Park East on September 4, 2012.

February 2013 – April 2013

MBG works with Charlottesville’s Department of Parks & Recreation, The Design Place Task Force Committee and others, to prepare the RFP for an architectural landscape firm to design a master plan for McIntire Park East in accordance with the conceptual design adopted by the City Council in September 2012.

May – July 2013

City Parks & Recreation is in the process of hiring an architectural landscape firm to design the botanical garden.

August – September 2013

MBG participates in the public process of decision making.

October 2013 – December 2014

MBG continues working with Parks & Recreation on an implementation timetable for infrastructure according to the newly approved master design plan. Those projects within the initial botanical garden area for which the MBG could effectively begin fund-raising are identified.

August 2015 

Interchange project is completed.

January 2016

BOTANICAL GARDEN opens officially as construction for the interchange and McIntire Road Extended are completed with access to the park well defined.

McIntire Park East is now open every Sunday all day long and every Tuesday and Thursday after 3 pm, so everyone can enjoy visiting the park.