FRI-B05: Riverside Park Detroit: Transforming Park, Transforming Lives

Friday, October 27, 2023

11:00am – 12:00pm CT

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Keenan Gibbons, ASLA, LEED Green Associate

Keenan Gibbons, PLA, LEED GA
SmithGroup, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Speaker(s)

Tim Karl, ASLA

Chief of Landscape Architecture
City of Detroit/General Services Department
Detroit, Michigan
ER

Erminia Ramirez

LMSW
Riverside Park Advisory Council- Detroit
Detroit, Michigan

Riverside Park has transformed a blighted industrial brownfield of Detroit’s past into a vibrant, equitable 37-acre riverfront destination for year-round recreation and activities that supports the diversity of its neighbors and user groups.

Learning Outcomes:

Learn how to leverage public-private partnerships toward mutually productive outcomes.
Examine a major urban riverfront revitalization recently completed in the City of Detroit.
Identify hurdles and effective community strategies to establish a shared sense of civic ownership.
Explore multipronged approaches to create safe, accessible, and flexibly-to-intensely programmed public space in an urban brownfield.