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Award-winning Civitas Urban Design Plan for Lake Minnetonka Waterfront Transformation Approved for Next Phase by Wayzata City Council
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Civitas leads the team creating a new vision for the lakefront and adjacent downtown pedestrian plaza as seen in this rendering of the proposed Lake Walk along Lake Minnetonka’s northern shore.
Civitas leads the team creating a new vision for the lakefront and adjacent downtown pedestrian plaza as seen in this rendering of the proposed Lake Walk along Lake Minnetonka’s northern shore.

DENVER (PRWEB) April 23, 2018 -- Denver award-winning urban design and landscape architecture firm Civitas has received City Council approval to move forward with the design of implementation plans and construction documents for the Lake Effect Project to revitalize the Lake Minnetonka waterfront for the City of Wayzata, Minn. A strategic initiative to enhance Wayzata’s character and connectivity to Lake Minnetonka, the project is intended to create a more beautiful area for residents’ everyday use.

“It’s visionary for a small community to take on a transformative project of this scale,” says Civitas principal Scott Jordan.

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“The Lake Effect Project strikes a good balance between supporting downtown businesses while improving community recreation, relaxation and pride,” says Civitas founder and president Mark Johnson. Civitas was the selection committee’s unanimous choice in the original 2015 design competition for the project and has been closely involved in Wayzata’s intensive community engagement and collaboration process through development of the vision.

Planned improvements along Lake Minnetonka’s northern edge will extend from the 1902 Section Foreman House to the historic Depot Park, allowing residents, for the first time in 100 years, to be able to walk the length of the downtown shoreline where a working railroad corridor has restricted access. At the same time, the project will restore and enhance overall lake-edge ecology. And a redesign of adjacent Lake Street, which fronts the downtown retail district, will add bike lanes and widen sidewalks to enhance the bicycle and pedestrian experience, with a lively, all-season plaza replacing the former municipal parking lot, offering built-in flexibility for large festivals, smaller summer markets and even winter activities like broomball or curling.

“It’s visionary for a small community to take on a transformative project of this scale. It brings bigger-city urban thinking to a smaller city,” says Civitas principal Scott Jordan, who adds that Wayzata’s vision “will celebrate and protect the community’s greatest asset, Lake Minnetonka, and make it more usable for all generations.”

The Civitas plan provides an open and continuous meandering wooden boardwalk, engaging users through a series of diverse interconnected spaces that provide fresh access to the lake and an increasingly natural experience of the landscape. “The boardwalk system is designed as a quarter-mile loop to put the waterfront park in motion and enhance social interactions,” explains Jordan, “enabling residents to stroll, sit, fish or dip their toes in the water.” The concept draws directly on Civitas’ ethos of activating people and places, successfully realized in the firm’s completed urban waterfront projects ranging from San Diego’s North Embarcadero to St. Patrick’s Island Park in Calgary, Alberta.

On the shoreline’s east side, an Eco Park will feature an underwater reef to mitigate damaging wave action and restore a historic shoreline marsh. A community education center is planned within the restored historic Section Foreman House. Expanded terraces, flower gardens and much-needed shade and restroom facilities around Wayzata’s historic Depot Park area will anchor the shoreline’s western edge and provide an enticing destination for those on the Lake Walk loop.

As the City of Wayzata moves forward with the Lake Effect Project, Civitas and its multi-disciplinary team of consultants – including Snow Kreilich Architects (Minneapolis); Applied Ecological Services (Prior Lake); Solution Blue, Inc. (St. Paul); LKPB Engineers, Inc. (Minneapolis); Water In Motion (Minneapolis); SRF Consulting Group Inc. (Minneapolis) and Ericksen Roed & Associates (St. Paul) – will continue to develop the design for the entire project. Construction on the Lake Street and Lake Street plaza improvements is slated for 2019.

Founded in 1984 with the core purpose of “creating healthier cities,” Denver-based Civitas, Inc., is an idea-based practice of urban designers, architects and landscape architects engaged in strategic planning for urban change and project design for built works. Recent honors received include the Chicago Athenaeum/European Centre International Architecture Award, the Canadian Institute of Planners “Great Public Space,” and an Excellence on the Waterfront Award from the nonprofit Waterfront Center. A consultancy and a design studio, Civitas advises on a wide range of strategies for re-imagining urban life and places, working in U.S. cities coast to coast and around the world. For additional information visit http://www.civitasinc.com.

Media contacts: Anne McGregor Parsons, Word PR + Marketing, anne(at)wordprmarketing(dot)com, 303.777.7667

Anne Parsons, +1 303.777.7667, [email protected]

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The Civitas designed all-season plaza is part of the Lake Effect vision plan, which would host a variety of events to engage the Wayzata community.
The Civitas designed all-season plaza is part of the Lake Effect vision plan, which would host a variety of events to engage the Wayzata community.
An environmentally sensitive eco-park envisioned by Civitas as part of the Lake Effect vision plan offers residents and visitors a place to rest in nature along the Lake Minnetonka waterfront.
An environmentally sensitive eco-park envisioned by Civitas as part of the Lake Effect vision plan offers residents and visitors a place to rest in nature along the Lake Minnetonka waterfront.
The Civitas designed all-season plaza is part of the Lake Effect vision plan, which would host a variety of events to engage the Wayzata community. An environmentally sensitive eco-park envisioned by Civitas as part of the Lake Effect vision plan offers residents and visitors a place to rest in nature along the Lake Minnetonka waterfront.

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