Wenatchee Riverfront Park

GreenWorks is working with Chelan County PUD on the design and development of a comprehensive Master Plan and Phase One improvements for a riverfront park along the Columbia River near downtown Wenatchee. Wenatchee Riverfront Park has evolved over the past 90 years on the site of a former landfill in the middle of the Port of Wenatchee’s Industrial District. The development has included the reclamation of approximately 100 acres of brownfield and included adaptive reuse of historic structures. Potential improvements include enhanced landscaping, water features, public gathering spaces, enhancements to trails and sidewalks, play areas, wayfinding, lighting, parking and park access, improved river viewpoints, and active and passive recreational amenities.

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Project Details

Location: Wenatchee, WA

Type: Waterfront Park

Size: 100 Acres

Status: In Progress

Contract Value: $1.3M

Owner: Chelan County Public Utility District

Project Team

Key Personnel:

Gill Williams, Principal in Charge

Grayson Morris, Project Manager

Collaborators:

DCW, Graham Baba Architects, Pacific Engineering, PAE, WET Engineering, ZTek

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Bush's Pasture Park Cultural Landscape Plan

GreenWorks lead a Cultural Landscape Management Plan for a 96-acre park with historic buildings and gardens, natural resources, ornamental gardens, and active recreation facilities.

Working closely with Salem Parks staff, a subconsultant team, and a large stakeholder group, GreenWorks identified key management concerns and developed policies and procedures for consistent management to protect contributing features of the park.

The project included three virtual open houses for public participation to contribute to the CLMP and vision plan.

The Confluence Project: Celilo Falls Site

There is no more significant place that shaped the early culture of the Pacific Northwest than where the Columbia once thundered at Celilo Falls. It was one of North America's largest waterfalls and was a life-sustaining salmon fishery and gathering place for Native Americans over the course of 10,000 years. As a tribute to this lost place, the last of the Confluence Project sites was designed collaboratively by Maya Lin and GreenWorks. 

About the Confluence Project

The Confluence Project is a series of seven public art installations at significant points along the Columbia River system. The project stretches 438 miles from the mouth of the Columbia River in the west to the gateway to Hell's Canyon in the east, with sites in both Oregon and Washington. Each references a passage from the Lewis and Clark journals, while comparing it with the deeper story of the local Native American Tribes that inhabited this region. Envisioning the river and its tributaries not just as singular points along the way but as a connected and integrated ecological system, it encompasses work in over 15,000 acres of state and federal land that is now being restored as an integral part of the project.

Collaborating with the artist Maya Lin, GreenWorks has provided landscape architectural services for the Confluence Project for the landmark development of six sites since 2001. GreenWorks led project teams for schematic design, design development, permitting, construction documentation, cost estimating and construction administration of the multiple sites. GreenWorks provided coordination with multiple federal, state, and local agencies and with the many of the tribes of this region, including the Chinook, Umatilla, and the Nez Perce tribes. Strong interpretive and education elements tell the story of Lewis and Clark, and also preserve the history and celebrate the cultural significance of the native tribes.

Barton Park Master Plan

Barton County Park is a 122-acre regional park located along the north side of the Clackamas River and offers many recreational opportunities including overnight camping, picnicking, hiking, and accessing the Clackamas River. During the summer months, many people from around the region use Barton as a place to access the Clackamas for a three-hour float to the Carver Boat launch. Both Barton and Carver have experienced capacity and safety issues with the proximity to our region’s growing population and ever-growing interest in recreating close to home.

The County has also incorporated three new parcels into the complex which will offer the ability to expand the current program and provide new uses at the park. GreenWorks has assembled a multi-disciplinary team to analyze the existing transportation issues inside and outside the park, which are caused by peak-season use. The team will prepare a Master Plan to address safety, user experience, capacity, and revenue generation while incorporating the new undeveloped areas into the overall the park. 

Latourette Park

Latourette Park resides in the historic, residential district of Oregon City. This old park was once the home of a community swimming pool that was filled in and now is the only flat space in the neighborhood. Oregon City hired Greenworks to help the design for renovating the park which includes a new nature play area, accessible pathways, sports court, and planting areas. The concept was completed in the summer of 2018, and construction documents in 2020, and construction is nearing completion. 

Latourette Park under construction in the fall of 2020.

Salem Riverfront Park Amphitheater

Salem Riverfront Park Amphitheater Design by GreEnWorks

Salem Riverfront Park Amphitheater under Construction

Salem Riverfront Park is one of Salem’s premier, treasured, and well used parks. Through a robust public outreach process, GreenWorks and City staff worked with focus groups and the public to develop and prioritize concepts for park improvements and additions.  A key feature in the new addition to the park is a new, larger amphitheater designed to complement a proposed covered stage and a river viewing terrace with dramatic views of the Peter Courtney Minto-Island Bridge.

Relocating the covered stage and amphitheater to the south end of the park means Salem can host larger events in the park and take advantage of the soon to be upgraded areas: nature play area, terraced overlook seating, playground, splash pad, pavilion, and seasonal ice rink.  

Spring 2021 Construction of Salem Riverfront Park Amphitheater

Salem Amphitheater band shell under construction, Minto island bridge behind

Wade Creek Park

Wade Creek Park Phase III

Greenworks and our sub-consultant Otak worked with the City of Estacada on a preliminary design for Wade Creek Park Phase III, a 3-acre park in Estacada, Oregon. The City has a vision of turning a pond located behind the library into a flowing stream as well as improving its outfall for maintenance and safety. The team conducted a geomorphic and hydrology study, and an assessment of the site by providing surveys for topography and tree health. Two alternatives were presented to the public. In order to cast a wider net of responses, GreenWorks created an on-line survey. The final design comprising of a riffle, pool, and channel complex with riparian plantings, an amphitheater, and walking trails was presented to City Council in early March of 2019 and was approved.

Rendering credit: Otak + Greenworks

Conceptual Design for the Wade Creek Park Community Building

We worked as a sub-consultant to Otak to provide design services for the Wade Creek Park Community Building, located to the northwest of the Estacada Public Library in Estacada, Oregon. The building will consist primarily of a multi-purpose room of +/- 1,000 square feet and accommodating approximately 75 to 100 people. The space will adapt to allow many different gatherings using include mobile partitions to subdivide the room. The building will also include a covered stage as part of a planned outdoor amphitheater. The plan includes additional spaces such as a small kitchen, storage room for furniture, utility closets and bathrooms. The conceptual design integrated with and was influenced by the Wade Creek Park Phase Ill master plan. GreenWorks was essential to the project’s coordination, test-fitting the proposed building layouts. The final product of our work was a conceptual design set that expresses the new building’s layout, elevations, roof plan, and assumed materials for the building. A cost estimate was provided as well. The conceptual design was used by the City of Estacada to pursue funding for the project.

Battle Creek Wetland Park

GreenWorks is currently working with the City of Salem, preparing a master plan for Battle Creek Park, a large 56-acre undeveloped park property in South Salem.  The site, a former golf course, is currently undeveloped, with creeks, wetlands, trees and open space. Urban growth in South Salem has created flooding issues in the adjacent neighborhoods and downstream from the park, thus the property was purchased for both park and flood mitigation functions.

The goal for the Battle Creek Park master plan is to develop a multi-use park that balances recreational use with flood mitigation. GreenWorks is exploring ways to integrate flood plain mitigation so that the park looks and feels natural versus looking like a large, engineered detention facility.

The city also received input from more than 800 responses to a first online survey and from more than 80 community members that attended both public open houses. From that feedback, three conceptual site improvement options for the master plan were created, each focusing on a different theme (habitat, recreation, blending of habitat and recreation). Some park features are in all three options, such as trails and flood retention, but other features vary or are unique to each option.

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Westmoreland Park Nature Based Play

The Westmoreland Nature-Based Play Area is a pilot project for Portland Parks and Recreation. GreenWorks collaborated with Portland Parks & Recreation to replace an outdated playground with a nature-based play environment. GreenWorks focused on developing a context-sensitive design that would reference the specific characteristics of the site and its surrounding community. Extensive outreach was built into the design process.

GreenWorks led a comprehensive public involvement and consensus building process that resulted in unique play elements, which were custom-made for this park that celebrate the community’s vision.

The design team included environmental artist, Adam Kuby. Adam collaborated with the design team on the overall conceptual design of the playground that represents the restoration of the adjacent Crystal Springs. He helped envision these artistic elements as play features within the design.

Sustainable features include water conservation, drought-tolerant planting design, efficient irrigation, native or native-adaptive plant material, sustainable stormwater management, incorporation of salvaged concrete re-purposed for water play elements and many salvaged logs for climbing features and custom benches. This project opened in 2014 and is “wildly” popular with children and adults alike. The project was awarded the ASLA Oregon Honor Award.

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Learn more from Americans for the Arts, KATU2 and US Army Corps of Engineers videos made before the park’s construction, and from PDXParent.

Tanner Springs Park

GreenWorks collaborated with Atelier Dreiseitl of Germany to design Tanner Springs Park, an urban park in Portland’s Pearl District. Envisioned as an urban park with a wetland focus, the park serves the developing surrounding neighborhood as well as visitors to the area. The sustainable design features innovative uses of water and stormwater, creating a refuge for people and wildlife in the midst of this bustling downtown neighborhood. The design process was highly interactive involving the citizens of Portland through a series of public workshops.

“The springs connect the park to Tanner Creek that at one time flowed openly through this area; today it flows through large pipes beneath the city streets. Since the design of the park attempts to recapture the area’s past with its native wetlands and flowing runnels, the name is fitting.”

— Portland Parks & Recreation

This one-acre park in the center Portland’s Pear District, Tanner Springs Park is the second of three parks envisioned by the City and Peter Walker Partners. With Walker’s Jamison Square Park serving as an active gathering space for the neighborhood, the Tanner Springs Park design team was charged with making this park, two blocks north of Jamison, contemplative and quiet, designed for personal reflection. The park was to incorporate water and a pedestrian boardwalk that was part of the original master plan.

As the City of Portland settled on the banks of the Willamette River in the late 19th century, it avoided the marshy area north of downtown. This area, where Tanner Creek entered Couch Lake, was an important off-channel rearing area for juvenile salmon, though unrecognized at the time.  As railroad commerce became increasingly important to the young city, Couch Lake was drained and filled to accommodate a large rail yard with the dozens of railroad sidings needed by freight trains to haul out the region’s timber.  Tanner Creek was buried in a pipe deep beneath the developing city.

The block now known as Tanner Springs Park is located right in the center of historic Couch Lake, near the Tanner Creek channel. By the 1980’s this area of rail yards, industrial facilities and warehouses began to be redeveloped. Portlanders began to envision a new neighborhood, directly adjacent to downtown, a place where people could live and work in an energetic urban environment.

It is this rich mix of natural and cultural history that the design team wished to incorporate into the Tanner Springs Park.  We visualized peeling back the skin of the city to discover the forgotten wetland.

Conceptualized as a tilted plane, the park captures a transect of the major natural plant communities historically found in the Willamette Valley:

• freshwater pond

• emergent wetland

• wet prairie

• oak woodland

All plants in the park are native to the Willamette Valley, from the wetland sedges to the stately Oregon White Oak tree used to “invade” the urban streetscape on the western edge of the park.

A spring bubbles up at the top of a large open grassy meadow, trickling down to a wetland pond, sunken 6 feet below street level. The east edge of the pond is scribed by an undulating “Art Wall” constructed of reclaimed railroad rails, some nearly a century old. Lawn terraces, like urban bleachers, run down opposite sides of the park providing lunchtime seating and vantage points to enjoy the scenery.  Pedestrian paths within the park are crafted from recycled basalt cobblestones, once found in the streets of the neighborhood.  This is a place of many historic references, from a natural creek and wetland, to the memory of industry and train yards, to today’s modern city.

However, Tanner Springs Park is not a wetland museum.  It is an urban habitat.  It has its own authentic ecology while utilizing art for interpretation. Though inspired by nature, it is an urban park, with precise terraces and walls creating a frame for the organic core. 

The pond is cleansed biologically, without added chemicals.  All stormwater runoff from the entire block is directed into the cleansing biotope, rather than out to the curb and gutters of surrounding streets.  Vegetation within the park is also managed without chemicals, in order to protect the biological viability of the pond.

PC: Tom Good

Metro Graham Oaks Nature Park in Wilsonville

GreenWorks provided schematic design, construction documents, and construction administration for this $1.4 million, 205-acre regional park in Wilsonville. The design process engaged the City of Wilsonville, the adjacent Elementary School, and its direct neighbor–Villebois Community–to create a Nature Park that truly reflected the needs of its community while staying true to Metro’s project goals. The design imparts a hierarchy of trails to facilitate access to natural areas such as restored oak savannah, woodlands, wetlands, and riparian forests. The regional Tonquin Trail provides regional access to the park, while secondary loop trails and forest hiking trails offer additional scenic, leisure routes. The integration of art was an important design element to Graham Oaks. The park’s entrance is designed to provide a strong sense of place and includes numerous sustainable site features (i.e., stormwater facilities in the parking lot, a green roof picnic shelter and native plantings throughout). The gateway interpretive plaza introduces visitors to the wildlife and history of the area, while viewpoints, plazas, bridges, boardwalks and interpretive features throughout the site help visitors enjoy the unique attributes of the park while striking  a careful balance between access and restoration. The park serves many roles as an educational tool to the neighboring Elementary School, a neighborhood Park to nearby Villebois Park and a regional destination for access to nature and recreation.

Hood River Waterfront Park

GreenWorks provided master planning and design services for the waterfront park in Hood River. The 6-acre park lies north of downtown between the Hood River Event Site and “The Hook” (a protected harbor for learning windsurfing) on property donated by the Port of Hood River. The Park helps connect the community to the Columbia River through a family-friendly public gathering space that accommodates a wide spectrum of uses. Our team went on to provide design services. Design features include beach and swimming access to the Columbia River, innovative children’s play facilities, and flexible areas for large community events and festivals. In addition, the park reclaims eight hundred feet of riverbank, laying back the slope and restoring the river’s edge with a wide variety of native riparian plants. The park sits north of commercial use sites to the south and has improved connectivity to the waterfront and increased economic development and commercial revitalization.

Washougal Waterfront Nature Play Area

GreenWorks was hired by The Port of Camas-Washougal to design a new nature play area adjacent to the Columbia River. The play area is a highlight along a mile-long trail that begins at Washougal Waterfront Park and meanders along the shoreline of the Columbia River. The design for the playground encompasses a broad spectrum of play experiences for children of all ages and abilities using natural materials to encourage physical, social, and exploratory play.

The focal point of the play is a large erratic boulder nicknamed “Erric the Erratic” which is a remnant from the Ice Age Floods. Other components include an embankment slide, musical instruments, log climbers, and a discovery trail that winds through the forest. The Conceptual Design Alternatives were recently prepared and presented to the Port with final concept completed in January of 2017. The park opened to the public on June 7th!

Hogan Butte Nature Park

Hogan Butte is a 43 acre park south of downtown Gresham and west of US 26. Hogan Butte has a rich natural history that is highly visible on-site and from the stunning 270 degree views from the top of the butte (with views of Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams, Mt. Rainier, the Columbia River Gorge and the City of Gresham). The position of the property and connections into the community provide unique opportunities for public access and education.

GreenWorks developed the Master Plan for the site, which recognized the unique value of the Hogan Butte site, both as a natural asset and community asset. The Master Plan meets community assessed needs and protects the natural environment. Program elements included: protecting and restoring natural resources, providing public access, appropriate infrastructure such as restrooms and parking, trails, signage and education. Hogan Butte has a rich natural history that is highly visible on-site and from the stunning 270 degree views from the top of the butte. The position of the property and connections into the community provide unique opportunities for public access and education.
 

“…a half-mile paved pathway snakes its way to the top. From the crest of the butte is a great view of Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams and Mount Hood, while the mountain finder situated there promises occasional peeks of Mt. Rainier and Mt. Jefferson too.” - The Oregonian

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“At the top elevation of 930 feet, take in a stunning ‘Volcanic Viewpoint,’ a panoramic view of Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams, Mt. Rainier, the Columbia River Gorge and city of Gresham. Walk the half-mile paved interpretive loop trail and enjoy picnic areas with views of the forest. Educational signage is available in Russian and Spanish. An ADA-accessible parking lot has 20 spaces.” - Oregon Metro

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Conceptual Visualizations

Couch Park Inclusive Playground

A child runs along the accessible pathway at couch park in Northeast Portland

Couch Park is located in the Historic Alphabet District in NW Portland. Sharing ownership with Portland Public Schools, the park is the official home of Metropolitan Learning Center’s playground. The park also has a large 10,000 sf plaza that is an abandoned Right-of-Way that is used as a major North-South pedestrian thoroughfare. Finally, there are the rolling, grassy berms and pathways surrounded by a dense canopy of trees that make up the remainder of the park. The re-design of the plaza and playground was the highest priority and most costly of all the 2016 Bond Projects dedicated to refurbishing aging parks and playgrounds in Portland. 

The old wood playground structure beloved by the MLC students was removed in 2015 due extensive structural rot and multiple hazards. The plaza was no longer ADA accessible due the the humps and bumps from differential settlement between concrete bands and brick pavers. The plaza and playground had old trees, some that were in poor conditions, others that would present challenges for designing and construction around without serious impacts.

The playground, Portland’s first inclusive playground on the west side, is designed for kids of all ages and abilities and is a true hybrid of natural elements and factory built play equipment.  The focal point being a fort on a mound that skirts between large trees to make kids feel like they are in a tree fort, is by far the coolest thing in the playground that kids will use as a centerpiece to create their own adventures and games.

The design for the plaza and playground are within the same footprint as the previous spaces as required by the language of the bond. The plaza’s bold paving patterns are based on the historic grid of bricks and concrete bands but use different textures of concrete to replicate the  historic paving pattern. 

A distinguishing characteristic of the design is demonstrated in the forward thinking of incorporating sustainable stormwater practices into parks and urban plazas. The design showcases vegetated stormwater planters as a primary space maker verses pushing them to the side to inconsequential spaces as mandatory minimum add-ons. The flow through planters define the circulation zones, separate the playground from the plaza, create edges for sitting, and provide a healthy splash of color to a very urban neighborhood. 

Fanno Creek Greenway Remeander

GreenWorks has hired by Clean Water Services on a multi-disciplinary team lead by HDR to restore a segment of Fanno Creek and improve the Fanno Creek Trail in downtown Tigard. GreenWorks’ role on the project is to provide trail design for a quarter mile segment of the 15-mile regional trail that extends from Tualatin to Portland through Tigard. The creek enhancements include restoring a previously straightened portion of the creek to a natural, meandering alignment that will improve hydrologic function of the creek and adjacent floodplain. The Fanno Creek Trail improvements mimic the new creek alignment to draw pedestrians and bikers further into the park to experience the natural environment. The project also included replacing an old bridge, elevated to improve stream hydrology and maximize trail function for cyclists using the Fanno Creek Trail.

Gateway Green

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Each year in East Portland, more than 65 million people whiz right by Portland’s newest urban bike park in cars and trains.

It’s a thin, 25-acre island of trees and meadows that undulates in the center of eleven lanes of traffic, four entrance and exit ramps, the TriMet Red line, Union Pacific freight train tracks, and the I-205 multi-use path. With so much transit happening around it, you’d think the land that’s now known as Gateway Green would be useless.

But visit the park and you’ll immediately realize it’s a treasure. This is because the site was reimagined with the help of a nearly twenty-year effort that began with two community members who saw the opportunity to reuse a piece of the "right-of-way" land to make East Portland better. Interest in the site touched so many different agencies that the Oregon Governor's office got involved to help smooth the way for the project's success.

Read the whole story on our blog

Gateway Green is a surprisingly nice place to ride off road, and once you get going, noise from the cars and trains just fades into the background. The project is an important step towards providing more space in Portland for people to ride, though more space is still needed.

The park joins a new wave of urban cycling parks like the I-5 Colonnade and Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Parks in Seattle, J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation Bike Park in Boise, Highbridge Park in New York City, and Valmont Bike Park in Boulder. But Gateway Green and the I-5 Colonnade are unique among these examples for their adaptive reuse qualities. Adaptive reuse is when an existing place is redeveloped for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed for.

Today, heading northbound on I-205, drivers can quickly glance right to view Ted’s Traverse and Linda’s Line, unlikely urban singletrack trails named for the community leaders who got the whole project started. They envisioned a new place for park-deficient East Portland, and an economic driver for the re-imagining of adjacent Gateway District.

The first phase of Gateway Green opened at the end of 2020. Read about Gateway Green in The Oregonian, Willamette Week, and DJC Oregon.

The 2010 creation of the Friends of Gateway Green (FOGG) jump-started design work after nearly ten years of organizing, planning and negotiating. Robinson and Gilbert began the group and since that time it’s been a primary driver of the project and a key partner of Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) in their work developing the site.

By 2012,  FoGG began serious fundraising by partnering with Oregon’s Kitchen Table, a community fundraising group.

“...in Oregon’s first major civic crowdfunding effort, 756 people contributed to the project, raising nearly $124,000 (toward a goal of $100,000).” - Oregon Solutions

The money was used to hire David Evans and Associates, GreenWorks, and the International Mountain Biking Association to continue design work on the park. As part of this phase, GreenWorks created graphics to help project boosters generate enthusiasm for the project.

“They entrusted us to execute the vision with them.” GreenWorks Landscape Architect and Project Manager for Gateway Green, Ben Johnson said. “We came, we listened, and came up with a design that worked based on what the community had already figured out.” GreenWorks was hired to improve habitat and access to the site, in partnership with PP&R and FoGG.

FoGG continued to raise money and build momentum for the park’s development and PP&R completed a feasibility study of the project in 2015. With nearly ten years of work completed to this point, it was time for an experiment.

In 2017, to test the viability of Gateway Green, PP&R and FoGG directed the first phase of Gateway Green’s development with The Dirt Lab: improved singletrack trails, a bike skills area, and a cement pump track. The Dirt Lab was built by volunteers and staff organized by the Northwest Trail Alliance (NWTA) and the Community Cycling Center. They continue to maintain the park today. “NWTA, in collaboration with the Portland Parks and Recreation and Friends of Gateway Green, worked for 10 years to design and implement the vision for Gateway Green,” the Northwest Trail Alliance says on their website “Each year, more than 150 volunteers contribute over 750 hours of time to build and maintain the trails and bike skills area known as Dirt Lab.”

Dirt Lab was a hit. The new bike specific facilities gained local and national attention and proved Gilbert and Robinson’s idea was wildly popular. This popularity proved people would ride at Gateway Green when given the access. The success led to the continuation of the project and $5.75 million for the next phase of improvements, $1 million as a Nature in Neighborhoods grant from Metro, and $4.75 million from PP&R.

Phase two was when contributions from GreenWorks made the most impact. Using the discipline of landscape architecture, we worked to balance competing interests in the park with regulations and safety considerations, and to actively listen and act according to the work that had already been done at the park. This listening was done through a series of public meetings where community members were invited to share their thoughts on the future of Gateway Green and, later in the process, review proposed designs.

Improvements to the park in phase two included:

• Enhanced off-road bike facilities (constructed by others)

• Development of a multi‐use Trail and walking trails

• An adaptive cycling course

• Creation of an Entry Plaza

• Creation of a nature play area

• Grading and earthwork to meet ADA regulations and other trail needs

• Installation of utilities

• Stormwater management

• Habitat restoration and plantings

“Throughout the process, the crux of the design challenge has been to create a plan that balances active and passive uses along with innovative urban habitat restoration,” GreenWorks Senior Project Manager and Landscape Architect Ben Johnson said. A major challenge was fitting “the spine,” the multi-use path through the heart of the park, between the gravity lines while maintaining suitable grade changes along Gateway Green’s steep south side. GreenWorks principal Gill Williams, Kelly Stoecklein, and Landscape Architect Matthew Crampton also made significant contributions to the project.

Excitingly, the project incorporated a dedicated adaptive cycling track to provide a place for differently-abled riders to use Gateway Green. The park has an ADA accessible spine, linking riders of all abilities to amenities the entire length of the park, but the gravity lines and skills park are not accessible. The adaptive cycling track, at the north end of the park, was designed with the proper space, slope, sightlines, and obstacles for hand bikes, wheelchair bikes, and trike bikes. The adaptive track at Gateway Green is a small step toward providing more adaptive cycling access to local riders, but it is also the first dedicated adaptive track in Multnomah County.

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The following groups have been involved in the development of Gateway Green:

Government

• City of Portland

• City of Maywood Park

• Governor’s Economic Revitalization Team

• East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District

• Metro

• Multnomah County

• Oregon Department of Transportation, Region 1

• Oregon Solutions

• Oregon Parks and Recreation Department

• Portland Bureau of Parks and Recreation

• Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability

• Portland Bureau of Transportation

• Portland Mayor’s Office

• TriMet

Private

• GreenWorks

• PBS Engineering & Environmental

• 3J Consulting

• Morgan Holen & Associates

• Geotechnics

• Environmental Management Systems

• C2 Recreation

• Sparks + Sullivan

• Raimore Construction

• Miller Factors

• Sasquatch Trails

• Chris King Precision Components

• David Evans and Associates

• SERA Architects

• The Bike Gallery

• The Lumberyard

Nonprofit Organizations

• Friends of Gateway Green

• Central Northeast Neighbors

• Community Cycling Center

• Eastminster Presbyterian Church

• International Mountain Biking Association

• Mt. Hood Community College

• Northwest Trail Alliance

• Oregon Sports Authority

• Travel Oregon

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Windjammer Waterfront Park

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Our work in Oak Harbor began with the renovation of Oak Harbor Waste Water Treatment Facility. Since the facility is located in Windjammer Park, funds from the renovation were allocated to develop an integration plan for the park and GreenWorks was asked to prepare the Integration Plan.

GreenWorks lead the design effort for the Windjammer Park Integration Plan by working closely with the City of Oak Harbor and the Community Advisory Group (CAG). GreenWorks presented program elements at the first CAG meeting. With the feedback gathered at this meeting the team developed three design options representing an array of desired elements. During the process there were two open houses as well as an online open house to solicit comments from the public on the three options which assisted with devising a preferred concept.

“GreenWorks lead the design effort for the Windjammer Park Integration Plan by working closely with the City of Oak Harbor and the Community Advisory Group (CAG).”

The Windjammer Park Integration Plan is a long-term plan integrating existing and new program elements in this 28.5 acre waterfront park that includes a popular RV site playground lagoon trail network and waterfront access. GreenWorks worked closely with the City of Oak Harbor and a community advisory group on developing three park concepts and eventually a preferred alternative. The final concept included the renovation of the swimming lagoon improved pedestrian walking trails reconfigured parking lots new events plaza and splash park outside the facility as well as a performance stage new playgrounds and multi-use fields.

The Windjammer Park Plan is expected to be implemented in segments over time and GreenWorks developed the phasing plan to guide the future programming of the Park. The Integration Plan was adopted by City Council in May 2016.

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Design Illustrations

Washington Park Accessibility

The Washington Park International Rose Test Garden accessibility improvements project renovated a portion of the garden to increase accessibility and visitor enjoyment. In preparation for the Rose Garden’s Centennial Celebration in 2017, Portland Parks & Recreation tasked a team led by GreenWorks with this project whose primary goal is to ensure the public’s safety by removing barriers to access and provide accessibility upgrades to meet current ADA standards while maintaining and enhancing the historic character of the Rose Garden. The Main Promenade features a new ADA ramp system with stone walls and formal handrails to complement the iconic sculptural water feature.

GreenWorks managed a complex design team of engineers and accessibility experts providing site design, construction drawings and specification documents.  GreenWorks facilitated a 3-day design charrette with Portland Parks & Recreation and the design team.  Additionally GreenWorks provided 3D visualizations of design elements and developed presentation graphics for the public engagement process.

Bend Whitewater Park

On the Deschutes River, the Colorado Avenue Dam maintains water surface elevations upstream in the Mill District, but is located in an area of the river that is heavily used by boaters, kayakers, and tubers. Prior to this project, the dam and footbridge configuration blocked downstream passage and required all river users to exit the river and portage around the impediment, exposing a high number of low-skilled users to the potential of being swept into the dam.

A team that included GreenWorks designed this project to provide safe passage over the existing dam. In addition to the in-water recreational components, the design includes increased habitat diversity along the river by incorporating fish passage and on-bank habitat restoration, design improvements to McKay Park, and replacement of the pedestrian bridge.

The project is made up of three distinct channels:

1. The Passageway Channel with modest rapids for people floating the river with tubes,

2. The Whitewater Channel with four wave features for more experienced whitewater enthusiasts, and

3. The Habitat Channel, with no public access, provides habitat to local and migratory wildlife.

   Opened in 2015, the new Bend Whitewater Park enhances recreation by allowing river users to travel through the dam without having to portage and improves riverfront habitat in an ecologically sensitive area.

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