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Soundcheck: Five Questions with Emanuel Lain, Jr.

May 6, 2015 by: Frank Etheridge

Leading question, do you think Armstrong Park is under-utilized and under-supported as a public space?

When we first got started, concierges were telling tourists not to even cross Rampart Street. We advocated getting the park reopened when they had the contractor dispute [Summer 2010] and the park was closed for a year and a half. When it did reopen we were all high-fiving each other. But then we looked around and they had nothing going on in this park. Nothing. So we starte...

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