The colorful, inventive designs that architects created during the Burlingame charrette are now on display in the main Burlingame Public Library at 480 Primrose. They are the result of an all-day design workshop on September 30 at which 63 architects and other design professionals volunteered their time to transform hundreds of ideas into scenarios of what our downtown might look like in the future.

Take a look! They are quite imaginative! There's even a design by two young boys of the vision they have for a future downtown, complete with a giant candy store, go-cart area, rollercoaster and a doughnut shop with an underground passage to the police station.

The architects will be back soon to give a presentation to the public at a future Burlingame City Council meeting. Stay tuned: We'll post the time and place on the blog.

If you go to the library today (Sunday), be sure to stop by the Burlingame Library Foundation's book sale between 1 and 4 p.m. Admission is free, and all proceeds benefit Burlingame Library programs and materials.

Terry Nagel

– Written by Terry Nagel