Placemaking Opportunities: Places

Placemaking begins with places. It doesn’t matter whether they exist already, are envisioned in a plan, or are simply imagined.

Downtown Largo offers a broad canvas for placemaking invention including the beautifully designed Town Center Park, underused Metro station plaza, unimproved stream corridors and wetlands, extra-wide streets, expansive parking lots and structures, and undeveloped properties. This map shows a range of places with opportunities to repurpose spaces with formal and informal activities.

Parking Areas are characteristics of Largo’s suburban design Temporary or interim placemaking can demonstrate new uses for these underused spaces

Open Spaces include vacant lots waiting to be developed, or open areas around buildings Pop-up activities and interim improvements can put these assets to community use by activating them until they are developed

Parks in this context refer to formal parks operated by M-NCPPC Pop-up activities and long-term improvements might increase community use and improve the environmental benefits of these spaces.