A new type of sculpture park—interactive, climbable, touchable—a relaxing place to gather with friends, play, or find respite in solitude, includes ‘Trestling,’ by Adam Frelin, ‘Color Field Meadows,’ by Mary Mattingly, and ‘Animals of Iowa’ by Brandon Vickerd.
ANkeny high trestle trail experience master plan
Des Moines Suburb Encouraged to Build Community and Economy
This plan for integrating art to create unique experiences along Ankeny’s four ice long anchor segment of the High Trestle Trail drives economic development and community connectedness. Twelve permanent and thirteen temporary art engagements by a wide variety of artists are recommended in Ankeny’s forward-thinking effort to leverage a unique culture amenity in the metro. Big thanks to Hanser & Associates and Bolton & Menk for playing on our team.
Following extensive community input, research, and after vetting over 33 projects by local and international artists, Group Creative Services is proud to recommend this extensive plan to activate cultural nodes and build both community cohesion, identity, and tourism by turning towards the existing backbone of natural and built resources that anchor the southern area of the High Trestle Trail, a unique community feature that is also one of Iowa’s greatest recreational assets. Ankeny’s segment of the trail offers significant connectivity throughout the city and to other regional trail loops, also drawing the residents of Ankeny to the developing Uptown area. Each project, selected for high enthusiasm by Ankeny residents and developed to be fully executable and ready to implement, is specific to Ankeny’s unique Hometown needs as well as to opportunities to find cost efficiencies with existing infrastructure upgrade plans and local funding possibilities.
Download a copy of the complete plan here. (pdf, 9.6Mb)
Read the article in the Des Moines Register here. (pdf, 79kb)
