It didn’t take long for downtowners to adopt a new one-acre urban community park between King and Meeting streets as if it had always been there.
Early Wednesday morning, just four days after the grand opening of American Gardens adjacent to the Gibbes Museum of Art and Charleston Library Society, several pairs of people, some with dogs, strolled along the narrow park.
Nearby, a neighbor who said she has watched what’s been happening for weeks, exclaimed, “Isn’t it wonderful?” Another woman with a cup of coffee read at a nearby table in the morning sun. Park workers installed a merry-go-round behind a portable hedge. A large Fraser fir stood anchored for Christmas festivities where days earlier more than 300 people joined to welcome the gardens…