To: Honorable Mayor and Members of Town Council
From: Jeff Brauer, Director of Parks and Recreation
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Festival Park’s Redesign Wins Architecture and Engineering Awards
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Executive Summary
Celebrations at Festival Park have always played an important role in offering a place for community celebration and gathering, contributing to the small town character and quality of life in Castle Rock. Realizing the importance of the park, Town Council, the Castle Rock Economic Development Council, the Downtown Development Authority and the Downtown Merchants Association partnered to support its redevelopment at a cost of $6.9 million. The redesigned park opened on November 18, 2017, and, in its first full year of inception, the park was recognized with two awards.
The Colorado Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects gave the park project a Merit Award in the category Design over $500,000 Construction Budget.
The design of Festival Park incorporated better access to Sellars Gulch, Plum Creek and the Town’s trail network. The park also accommodated a greater variety and quantity of community events. New amenities in the redesign included the splash play water feature, the shade structure and the fire pits the community has come to enjoy.
Adding onto the honors for the park, the project also won the Landscape/Urban Development award in the 2018 Best Projects competition for Engineering News-Record - an industry publication. Those awards recognize the best projects in the four-state region consisting of Colorado, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota.