The city shared designs for Civic Center Park's transformation, which includes new garden spaces, a food truck promenade and a 180-degree reorientation of the Greek Theater.
The city shared designs for Civic Center Park 's transformation, which includes new garden spaces, a food truck promenade and a 180-degree reorientation of the Greek Theater.Help support our ongoing election coverage
City officials and the Civic Center Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to programming activities in the park, have been developing the. On the landscaping side, OLIN from Philadelphia and Mundus Bishop, a local firm helmed by Tina Bishop, who wrote the Civic Center design guidelines, weighed in. The arch over the new stage will be made mostly of steel, but Studio Gang is still working out what material could be used between the steel beams to allow some light to pass through the structure.
The southern plaza of the amphitheater near East 14th Avenue will get a facelift, too. A memorial will be created in honor of the Gang of 19, disability activists led by Reverend William Blake who ditched their wheelchairs and crawled onto then-inaccessibleat the Colfax and Broadway bus stop to show the inequity of Denver’s public transit system in 1978.
The city will also build a new food truck strip, coming off the southeast corner of the McNichols Building and extending south with electrical and water hookups so the main pedestrian promenade won’t be interrupted when food trucks descend on the park. As a result, the main walkway will get new paving and more furniture and plants along the route to break up the expanse of concrete that exists now.
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