(John Crary)

At the memorial service for Chuck Brown currently taking place at the Washington Convention Center, Mayor Vince Gray announced that D.C. would be taking a concrete step to remember the Godfather of Go-Go: it would name a D.C. park after him.

“It’ll be a place where there’s action, where there’s people, where there’s traffic…a place where we can look forward to bustin’ loose,” said Gray during remarks.

Yesterday D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced legislation that would designate August 22—Brown’s birthday—as “National Chuck Brown Day.” During her remarks at today’s service, Norton said of Brown: “Chuck Brown rescued D.C. from the image of a government town that couldn’t keep a beat.”

D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown upped the ante in his own speech: he said that there should be a go-go hall of fame in D.C. “Got a park. Got a day. I think it’s only fitting and right that we do all we can to create a Go-Go Hall of Fame,” he said.

You can follow the memorial’s live blog, or follow Ben’s tweets from the service at @brfreed.