Tag: Park

Park improvements that won’t bust your community’s budget

Watching your pennies but want to make easy-to-implement improvements to your park facilities? Where there’s a will, there’s a way. With a little creativity, even financially challenged communities can make impactful revamps. Low-cost solutions abound if you just look for them. Here are 10 things you can fit into your budget yet this year: 10.… Read More »

Ecological Emphasis Dismisses Standard Notions of ‘Park’

When we hear the word “park,” many of us envision swings, slides, and colorful climbing structures because this is how most of today’s children’s parks were designed. In fact, many of these parks are indistinguishable from one another. Urban communities, however, are starting to ask for something different. They want more. They want the opportunity… Read More »

Town of Menasha’s Fritsch Park No Longer on the Fritz

WLUK-TV in Green Bay broadcast a series of reports about the Town of Menasha’s new Fritsch Park, an engineering success story for Ayres Associates. The Town invested $1.4 million for improvements to the park, and Ayres (project manager Mike Liebman) played a significant role in the park’s revitalization. The 18-acre neighborhood park consists of open… Read More »