Kopp's Plans for Meditation Garden at Busy Intersection
It's the third plan the owner of the popular burger and frozen custard restaurant will submit to the city in the last six years.
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The owner of Kopp’s Frozen Custard, already considered a top outdoor dining location in Greenfield, wants to spruce up a large “garden” area on the southwest corner of the intersection of 76th Street and West Layton Avenue.
Karl Kopp wants to install anodized aluminum curved panels that are 6 feet high and 12 feet long along the north and east sides of the corner at the intersection, giving it an artistic, closed-off feel from the two busy thoroughfares.
Large, illuminated glass artwork cubes would be placed between the panels as well.
In April 2011, the city’s Planning Commission approved a proposal for a meditation garden at the corner that would have been enclosed by long metal tubes that were open to the interior of the garden to create spaces for people to sit and enjoy their food.
In 2006, Kopp’s plan was to use a combination of a bamboo grove around the perimeter of the site with a glass cub on the interior. The bamboo was planted and later removed, but the rest of the project never materialized.
The Planning Commission will hear the new garden plan at a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 13.
Mike B
4:18 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
They should definitely do something. That corner has been 100% wasted space for years and years.
JustMe
5:54 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Why not put out some picnic tables? It's no fun sitting on the steps or on the edge of flower planters by the waterfall. We spend money on your food at least give us some place comfortable to sit and eat it.
Lee
9:38 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
Great thought! I really don't think anyone is going to meditate on that corner, unless
we are mediating that we should not have ordered and eaten that burger and custard.
GreenfieldParent
5:30 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012
There's a reason "Me" is in your name. I see it now. You are perhaps one of the most negative people I have ever seen. I have a feeling nothing that you ever do is fun. Every one of your posts is a negative downer. If you don't like the place, and don't like to sit on the benches by the waterfall, why not go to Chucky Cheese where you would fit right in?
I love Kopp's and hope they continue to do what they do exactly how they do it.
Greendale Citizen
7:14 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
A meditation garden?! Mr. Kopp must be smoking some of that marijuana that he professes should be legalized. Just give your customers a place to sit down and eat. Be realistic. No one is going to meditate on the corner of 76th and Layton.
GreenfieldParent
5:31 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012
No one from Greendale will meditate, they're too upity about the Norman Rockwell statute. How do you sleep knowing it is there?
Karen
8:00 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
LOL@Greendale Citizen! I agree. I avoid that crazy intersection at 76th and Layton whenever possible. A 'meditation garden' would be simply hilarious at that corner, but maybe a nice little pergola with lots of tables or even benches for the Kopps diners would be a nice touch. I think that parking lot at Kopps needs some redirection as well. Have seen too many close calls with the traffic pattern they have established in that lot.
JustMe
9:21 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
@Karen: I agree, that parking lot is a zoo!
Carol
9:48 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
I definitely think that nice tables would be a better idea. Not a good place for meditating with all the traffic.
Matt M
10:04 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
To me it sounds like the meditation garden is a good idea since it seems like he plans on walling off the 76 and layton sides with 6 foot high metal walls. This should pretty much drown out the intersection. Also, I would assume that he would put in some form of seating (otherwise it would be useless)
Derek
10:32 am on Monday, November 12, 2012
So, basically he is putting up a black, six-foot metal wall around the entire area. Nice.
GreenfieldParent
5:32 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012
It's their money, let them do what they want.
Carol
6:30 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012
To the Greenfield parent that said Greendale people are too uppity to meditate, excuse me! Are you jealous that we have a great village with a Norman Rockwell statue??? You must come here to know that.
Bren
6:43 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012
I'd be interested to see the plan. I like the idea of illuminated glass cubes, these look great especially at night.
It is a very busy intersection and very commercial. As long as we have to wait for the lights to change, an attractive view would be welcomed.