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You Tell Us: Big Ideas for Making Kings Park Better
As the local landscape changes with the psych hospital demolition, and main street fights to keep its local impact, locals are bound to have big ideas for their community. Let's share them.

Kings Park is a place in flux. The former Kings Park Psychiatric Hospital compound is being demolished in places, Main Street is hoping to attract new businesses to fill vacancies, and the ideological differences between local preservationists and proponents of change play out daily in our comment streams.
It's times like these that people get to thinking about the home they love so much, coming up with their own ideas, be them wild stretches of the imagination or practical fixes that are altogether doable, to keep Kings Park great into the forseeable future.
So let's hear them.
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In the spirit of putting the local dreamer and the civic leaders on the same plane, we'd like to give all locals the opportunity to share their big ideas for Kings Park. In this forum, no idea should be shot down. Instead, let's gather as many suggestions as we can so we can later narrow the list down to the 10 most popular ideas for the Kings Park community.
We can't wait to hear what you come up with.
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