Just got home from picking up the sod, the plants, and the benches…  We’re all set to go for the morning!

My old college mentor has a couple great garden benches that he is letting us use!  The receptionist at my office has a potted tree she is lending us, and a sod dealer in Coburg, All About Quality Sod, is excited to provide us the grass!

Two days to go, and it’s all coming together!

I just had a very encouraging phone call with a local sod dealer who liked the idea of the park.  Cross your fingers, and hopefully we’ll get someone who can donate the grass!

Kurt, another member of the Eugene Park(ing) Day group, said he has a lead on some benches, so we’ll see how that goes.

Things are coming together!

So we’re official tenants of parking spot 60-48 on September 18th, the spot pictured in our last post.  We also reserved a spot across the street, just in case something comes up and we need a different spot.  I even checked with the folks at the Eugene Public Works office, just to make sure they weren’t planning any construction or road maintenance on that day.

I also went by a garden supply store to see if they would lend us some potted trees.  It turns out they do a lot of work for charities, and so if they are bogged down with requests then we may have to get our trees elsewhere… so, I need to do some more planning!

Next on the list: grass, park benches

He said he’d seen groups do this in previous years, and his only concern was that we get permission from the local businesses before we set up our park. He said in years past permission was not received, and the business was upset about the loss of the parking spot and called the police!

He said we could either get a permit for $6 or else just show up and plug the meter all-day.  We will go for the permits, so that the spot will be officially reserved for us.