Charlotte’s uptown McColl tribute plan splits history buff

Charles Birnbaum, CEO of the Washingon, D.C.-based Cultural Landscape Foundation, protested the change to city officials, with no apparent impact. “Polk Park was a rare and important public work in Charlotte by a woman artist. (Bulgarian-born landscape architect Angela Danadjieva). The city did a poor job of maintaining Polk Park,” he says. “Even worse was the absence of an honest public review process.”