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College Park
A city in Prince George's County, Maryland — population 32,173 as of 2020.
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News in College Park
Is College Park ready to quantum?
Gov. Wes Moore calls it the Capital of Quantum. He has steered more than a billion dollars toward making College Park and the University of Maryland’s (UMD) Discovery District a world hub for quantum computing, which harnesses the strange rules of physics at the smallest scale to…
Real Estate & Development
Paint Branch 4th graders sing for first lady
Four fourth-graders from Paint Branch Elementary School in College Park helped serenade first lady Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan, the first lady of China, on Sept. 24 at the National Museum of Asian Art. The concert was a stop on Peng’s day out with her American counterpart…
Education
Latina aviators gather at museum for festival
Latina aviators told elementary and high school STEM students in September that they can do anything they set their minds to. The College Park Aviation Museum welcomed more than 100 visitors on Sept. 26 for the sixth annual Latinas in Aviation Global Festival. “Taking off is…
Events
UMD prof explains ‘weird’ quantum mechanics to lay audience
Red balls and blue balls. A penny in Maryland and another in California. The same atom in two points on a graph at the same time. University of Maryland (UMD) physics professor Steve Rolston tried to explain quantum mechanics to a standing-room-only crowd of more than 50 people…
Education
College Park Gets a Sneak Peek of the Purple Line
The Maryland Transit Administration brought one of the light-rail line's railcars to the Baltimore Avenue stop, just south of the Hotel at the University of Maryland.
Transportation
Residents identify quality of life issues
Residents in the western and northwestern parts of College Park, including College Park Woods, Crystal Springs and surrounding neighborhoods, have listed public safety, parking and community growth among their top concerns. Their responses were part of a Quality of Life project…
Government & CivicIn and around College Park
See & do
- Adele H. Stamp Student Union
- AMF College Park Lanes
- Aqabah Karate
- Aspen Heights College Park
- Berwyn Neighborhood Park
Eat, drink & stay
- &pizza
- Anne Arundel Hall
- Applebee's Grill + Bar
- Alario's Italian Pizzeria Restaurant
- Araliya Beach Resort & Spa - Unawatuna
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College Park by the numbers
- Area
- 5.61 sq mi (14.53 km²), 0.07 sq mi water
- Median age
- 21.5
- Households
- 9,007
- Persons per household
- 2.7
- Median household income
- $69,721
- Median house value
- $437,900
- Office
- DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
- Address
- 4500 KNOX RD, COLLEGE PARK, MD 20740