The City of Portland celebrated the grand opening of Director Park this week.

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Associate Richard Roark is the recipient of the Community Design Collaborative’s Community Design Award. The award was given to Richard and his wife Erin, an architect at Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, for their outstanding work on the master plan for revitalization of Palumbo Park in South Philadelphia. The Community Design Collaborative is a community design center that provides pro bono predevelopment design services to nonprofit organizations. The park is visited daily by residents, a local kindergarten, a Tai Chi exercise group, and students at the Fleisher Art Memorial and the couple saw the opportunity to work with neighbors who wanted to open up the pocket park and turn it into a community living room. “You can’t have a wallflower for a park,” says Richard.