Downtown

Project: Lynch Park

Area(s): Downtown
Type: Recreation and Parks
Budget: $190,000 ($160,000 from CRA and $30,000 from City of Gainesville Parks & Recreation Department)
Location: 450 South Main Street
Start date: 2008
Completion date: August 2010
Description:

Revitalization of Haisley Lynch Park provides Downtown patrons with much-needed useable urban green-space while linking Downtown Gainesville’s existing Central Business district with the emerging S. Main Street corridor, Depot Park, and the Porters Community.  The refurbished 1.4-acre park includes a fenced off-leash dog area and a garden featuring 100%-native Florida plantings.  The Park received new pathways, landscaping, benches, lighting, and other fixtures.   The park’s new design and furnishings reflect a fresh, funky aesthetic and were selected through numerous stakeholder meetings with citizens and community leaders.  Haisley Lynch Park is also the first CRA (or City of Gainesville) project to feature exclusive use of energy-efficient LED (light emitting diode) lighting fixtures.  This LED pilot project will not only enhance park safety and aesthetics, it will also provide a tangible case study to measure both energy and utility cost savings achieved through utilization of this new technology. 

    

Before Photo:

Photograph of Lynch Park

After photos:

park with oval designs

benches in park

gateway to park - black fence

trees in park