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A photo shows a plaza with a large turf lawn in the center surrounded by trees and with stone paving and stone seatwalls within it. People are milling, walking, and dining.

Photo: a series of sandstone slab seats are set on light paving with a crowd sitting and eating.

Stone paving with jets of water shooting form the ground entertain a small group of kids while adults watch from surrounding seats.

From above, a photo captures a loose crowd of people dispersed through the sandstone plaza milling around small black tables.

People sit on stone stone slab seats within the stone path.

A photo shows a wire guardrail in the foreground with ornamental grasses and a stone plaza behind with tents, and people gathering under trees.

Kids play in a waterplay feature with seating around the perimeter.

A man reads a book at a cafe table with ornamental grasses and red flowers in concrete planters in the foreground.

A group of women sit at a cafe table in the shade with a series of raised planters and the plaza behind.

People mill between event tables and tents beneath mature honeylocust trees.,

Three photos: First, a close up shot of a plant with a small plaque labeling it Hopflower Oregano. Second, a close up image of orange and pink flowers. Third, a close up image of a bristly sedum plant.

In dusk light, a couple sit on stone seats with hanging lights, tents, trees, and water jets behind them.

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Lakewood Civic Center Plaza

Lakewood, CO

Much-needed parking structure improvements provide an opportunity for the City to enhance its central civic space.

The Lakewood Civic Center Plaza, located in the center of the city’s civic campus, is the front door for all governmental affairs. With an aging parking structure requiring new waterproofing and a deteriorating plaza full of spalling concrete, the City had an opportunity to improve its image while renovating the parking structure.

Wenk Associates developed concepts that would improve the plaza from a functionality standpoint and improve its aesthetic qualities and finishes. New features include an outdoor concert stage to accommodate the summer concert series, a water feature that creates a soothing ambient sound throughout the plaza area, and an enhanced planting scheme to improve shade while demonstrating the best xeric plants for the regional climate.

Project Team:
Walker Parking – Lead Consultant, Engineering
Wenk Associates – Landscape Architecture
AE Associates – Electrical, Mechanical Engineering
Clanton Associates – Lighting
HydroSystems*KDI – Irrigation

Client

City of Lakewood

Completion year

2016

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