Tampa Mayor Won?EUR??,,????'???t Support National Landmark Status for Kiley Gardens

 

Kiley Park, Tampa, Fla.

Tampa, Fla. Mayor Pam Iorio has refused to support National Landmark status for Kiley Gardens, a downtown park designed by landscape architect Daniel Urban Kiley. The reason is the park resides atop a crumbling parking garage, and Iorio said her priority is not preserving the park but fixing the garage and making some of the land available to the art museum. She does not want such a designation to affect those repairs.

Kiley, who passed on at the age of 91, February 21, 2004, has been called a master of the modern garden.