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Greenville gets new park... for one day only

PRE News & Ideas | By George Olsen
Published October 3, 2019 at 6:06 AM EDT
City of Greenville

Greenville residents can enjoy a new city park for one day and one day only. A press release from the city of Greenville says the city will host a pop-up park Friday, October 4. Parking spaces at the Rose’s Parking lot at the corner of Evans and Fourth Streets will become an urban park, complete with performance stage, a pergola, benches, bistro tables, grass, trees and more. The pop-up park pops-up Friday at 11 and stays popped until 8:00 that night.  It’s a late recognition of PARK(ing) Day, typically the third Friday of September, which first popped-up in 2005. The movement is seeking to revitalize urban landscapes around the world.
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George Olsen
George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.
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