Thank you, State of North Carolina and especially Governor Beverly Perdue, for the gift, although I won't promise to visit you in prison...

Bulldoze the old convention center and build one twice the size so they can lose twice the amount of money they losing now. How about adding a nice entertainment center like the one in RR.

So Pullen Park is literally right next to this proposed park. So why stop there. Let's put another park next to the new park. Maybe instead of focusing on light rail, or attracting business to downtown we can just focus on parks. End of sarcasm. I do not understand what we are setting out to accomplish here by having two parks in this close proximity of each other. Will this be an expansion of Pullen? Is Pullen inadequate as a Park?

When folks like Gregory Poole pay for a governor, they expect certain things in return, like a park on the old DDH campus.

Isn’t it interesting that Ms. Perdue accuses the Republicans of playing politics for wanting her to slow down on making this deal in a hurry? What is she doing wanting to close the deal in such a hurry? After all she has four years to work on this but all of a sudden she seems to have woke up and figured she had to get er done overnight!! This just does not pass the smell test for not being politically motivated………

Wish as much thought and effort was being focused on the people with mental illness. If turning this land into a park is in everyone's best interest, so be it. Either way there is a lot on the table, so why the rush. If its right, it will still be right in Jan 2013.

I think the park will be a great asset to future generations as Raleigh continues to grow....Raleigh ITB is only going to become more densely populated as the decades pass....

"The reason why central park in Manhattan, for example, is popular is because there's businesses and residential areas surrounding it. The only thing around this land right now is a prison"- not true at all. Boylan Heights is across the street, there are neighborhoods on the Lake Wheeler side of things, not to mention the expansion of NCSU to another part, there is also a small neighborhood on the same side of Western as Dix. There are already homes and neighborhoods that will increase in value and tax base for the city if this is a park, and will encourage even better development of the area just around it. Central Prison is but a tiny fraction of what surrounds Dix property.- dwntwnboy

haha - yeah, it looks just like park ave and broadway over around dix hill.

"...and this is why Dorothea Dix Hospital was closed?" Yes, the terrible policies for public mental healthcare, since Ronal Reagan's term, have all been executed in the hopes that someday Raleigh could turn this empty hospital into a park. You must be an investigative reporter.

...and this is why Dorothea Dix Hospital was closed? So a bunch of rich Raleigh elitists and corrupt politicians can feel good about a legacy? The citizens of NC deserve better. Especially the NC citizens suffering from mental illness. They're the people we should be concerned about - not some elitist park that will cost us taxpayers plenty.

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