What is Parkside?
Parkside is the latest chapter of poor governmental practice in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Parkside is an upscale condominium project proposed on property directly in front of Asheville City Hall, property which has traditionally been considered park land. This property was sold by the Buncombe County Commissioners in an apparent sweet deal to a developer, one Stewart Coleman, over the objections of citizens.
What is Stop Parkside?
We are an ad-hoc collection of citizens of various political and personal motivations united to restore the parkland to public ownership and stop the inappropriate development of that portion of Pack Square.
On this page, we hope you will find useful information to help you make up your own mind about the Parkside development, and for that matter, the Stop Parkside movement.
Thank you.

Links

Recent News

Coven Oldenwilde, Protectors of the Tree
Asheville On The Ground
Downtown Asheville Protest Coverage
Scrutiny Hooligans Complete Guide to Parkside
Citizen-Times Protest Coverage
Why Jennifer Saylor opposes Parkside
How Buncombe County Sold Our Parkland
Ashevillein's First Post on Parkside
Mountain Xpress Coverage of Land Sale
Mountain Xpress Timeline of Parkside
Parkside Problems and Solutions
Interesting Historical Perspective .doc version .html here
Cecil Bothwell's Address at 7/15 Rally
Barry Summer's Address at 7/15 Rally
Stuff you never knew about George Pack

NEW !

Eminent Domain explained

Contact List


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BREAKING NEWS

ColemanTrees Cut Down


City council staff confirms the trees which were cut down were cut down by Black Dog Realty. Coleman claims he is trying to "improve the look" of the area.

PHOTOS
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looking west
New tree planted, looking west

looking north
New tree planted, limbs touching

looking east
Looking east, note cut trees

looking south
looking south, showing two remaining trees