East Falls Development Corporation, East
Falls Business Association, East Falls Community Council,
East Falls Tree Tenders, and Friends of the Inn Yard Park
Conceptual Landscape Design
The Inn Yard Park is a 1.5-acre piece
of Fairmount Park located a few steps away from Kelly Drive
and the Falls Bridge. It offers a front-row seat on Fairmount
Park's most popular path for cyclists and joggers and the
reviving East Falls retail district.
The Community Design Collaborative organized a group of volunteers
to brainstorm park improvements with a community task force.
The volunteers developed several design alternatives that
helped the task force reach consensus on a design proposal
to take to the community, government agencies, and elected
officials. The Collaboartive's volunteers then prepared a
color rendering of the proposed park design for the Task Force
to present.
Volunteers: Chris Pugliese,
Landscape Architectural Designer; Robert Shoaff, Intern Architect;
and Taylor Boyd, Cost Estimator
Value of Services:
$12,390
"The project's success is a direct
result of good communication and everyone's willingness to only
accept the best for the site, and more importantly, the community."
— Robert Shoaff, Volunteer
"At
our first meeting, the volunteer team did something no one
had done before…they simply listened."
— Ron Bednar, Board
Member
East Falls Development Corporation
