“Kurt and his team did a great job designing that park,” Adams said. Its playground and restroom facilities are compliant with access requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Twin Silo Park has pickle ball courts and a dog park, as well as ball fields and a large expanse of lawn that could accommodate soccer and lacrosse games. Planners try to keep pace with shifting recreational interests, said Bob Adams, director of recreation. In addition to playing fields, the park likely would have amenities intended to meet the needs of the community.
Much depends on how the area as a whole develops in the years to come. The location of Northeast Community Park has not been determined. Local: Relief in sight for Horsetooth Mountain Park congestion “We think there is a need for a larger park for sports fields and multi-purpose fields in particular,” he said. Northeast Community Park would be 100 to 120 acres, similar in size to Spring Canyon and Fossil Creek parks. Construction on that park could be 20 years away, Friesen said. The final community park envisioned in city’s parks and recreation plan would be in the Mountain Vista area west of the Anheuser-Busch brewery. They are intended to draw visitors from across the community as well as nearby neighborhoods by providing access to playing fields and courts. They are larger and have more amenities than neighborhood parks. The rate of accumulating funds depends on the pace of development.įort Collins’ long-range plans call for placing community parks across the city. More requests to fund other East Community Park facilities and features could be included in upcoming budgets, Friesen said.įunding for community parks comes primarily from impact fees charged for residential development. View Gallery: Twin Silo Park opens to the public The maintenance facility would be the first structure built in the park. Seeding and other efforts to reclaim the property are required by the state permit for mining on the site.Īnother $430,000 would go toward designing a parks maintenance facility that would serve several facilities on the city’s east side. Park planning and development expects to receive $220,000 to do initial improvements to the site. Funding for projects that would prepare the site for construction is in the city’s 2018 budget. But already owning the land is a bonus, Friesen said. Previously: Twin Silo Park rises, and it's so Fort Collins “Part of that is because it will take us that long to build up revenue reserves for the project.” “If I had a crystal ball, I would say 2030 at the earliest,” he said.
When the park would be built and open to the public is not clear, Friesen said. Preliminary talks with the owner of an adjacent 26 acres have begun about the possibility of adding land to the park, said Kurt Friesen, director of park planning and development. The city already owns 58 acres on the site, which like Rigden Reservoir is a former gravel mine. The park will be located east of the intersection of Drake and Ziegler roads and north of Rigden Reservoir. Years of planning and collecting development impact fees to pay for the facility will pass before that is decided.īut park planners know a few things about the future facility, which has the working name of East Community Park. What theme the city’s next community park would carry remains to be seen. The 54-acre park carries an agricultural theme reflected in its playground, which includes the silos and amenities such as a large community garden, hops trestles and an orchard. A highlight was the illumination of the former grain silos from which the $16 million park gets its name. Residents and city officials on Thursday enjoyed a ribbon-cutting celebration for Twin Silo Park near the intersection of Ziegler and Kechter roads. Even as Fort Collins’ newest community park opens, work on the city’s next major park is underway.
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