Canary Park Site Plan, City of Clive, Iowa
Canary Park resides within a growing neighborhood in Clive, is adjacent the city’s trail network,
Downtown streetscape enhancements bring festive lighting into the business district with minimal construction effort.
The City of Belle Plaine wanted inspiration and design ideas to refashion the holiday lights in the downtown core. City staff was burdened with the labor and materials needed annually to string holiday lights around downtown street trees.
Bolton & Menk identified concepts and design solutions that put maintenance and life-cycle costs at the forefront. Multiple accent lighting products were vetted to ensure the proposed system could be incorporated into the existing downtown infrastructure. Once a final product was selected, Bolton & Menk coordinated an evening with city staff and council members to demonstrate how the accent lights worked.
While keeping all existing trees and electrical conduits in place, intelligent LED accent lights and a control system was incorporated into the downtown. With the click of a keyboard, the city can change color, adjust brightness, direction, and timing, and refine the schedule to fit various festivals or holidays. The success of this project was not only in the accent light aesthetics, but also in incorporating the lights into the existing streetscape infrastructure at an affordable cost.
Canary Park resides within a growing neighborhood in Clive, is adjacent the city’s trail network,
We’ve had multiple plans for this area over the last few decades, and this is
The project is focused on equity, honoring culture, and bringing awareness to diversity on campus.
Streetscape enhancements include gateway and downtown monuments, plantings, decorative lighting, and aesthetic reuse of historic