Gates Park
Waterloo, Iowa
Gates Park was in need of transformation, with an aging pool and basketball and tennis court facilities that were in disrepair and underutilized. RITLAND+KUIPER was asked to lead a diverse public input process to identify what neighborhood and community members would like to see developed in the park, and used that input to create a master plan for the redevelopment of nearly 30 acres of the park. The resulting vision includes an expansive inclusive playground and splash pad, a lighted outdoor basketball court and skating rink complex that doubles as an amphitheater for outdoor performances and community gatherings, centralized parking lots with bioretention areas for filtering storm runoff, a full-sized irrigated soccer field, recreation trails, picnic shelters, restroom facilities, additional playground areas, new landscape plantings, and the transformation of an EPA superfund site into a sculpture park with mounds of prairie grass and areas for interpretive artwork from African American artists. The master plan has been approved by the City and RKLA is now leading a multi-disciplinary team into final design for an $8 million project to be bid in 2023.
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