A. Site analysis utilizing existing surveys, plans, historical documents, and other resources B. Stakeholder and community engagement C. Master plan and park design to include: a. Design a world-class park to become the primary riverfront destination in Columbia, with formal urban event spaces as well as smaller, passive park spaces; b. Provide access to the river for canoes, kayaks, paddle boards and other small watercrafts; c. Connect to the existing riverfront greenway to the north, Granby Park to the south with a continuous greenway alignment that also provides connectivity to various destinations within the park; d. Identify potential developable sites, and suggest possible uses for such sites that will provide opportunities to live, work, and play at various times of the day and night to activate the park, including parcels adjacent to the site as well as destination uses within the park that may provide funding streams for operations and maintenance; e. Provide development concepts for parcels along Williams Street extension (parkway) that take advantage of the unique geography of the park and the “parkway”, both in physical form and in function, to ensure the park will benefit from the development as will the development benefit from the park; f. Multimodal circulation to/through the site, for vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians that provides for safe, comfortable access and provides parking that is adequate and subordinate to the pedestrian-oriented, active uses; g. Explore and recommend park governance and management structure(s) that ensure ongoing stakeholder participation, funding sources and options, and scalable operations and maintenance.
