VAIL – — With many of the big questions apparently answered about redevelopment of Vail’s municipal building complex it’s time to start asking and answering the small ones.
Town of Vail officials Monday hosted an open house for the public to start asking questions, and weigh in on some preliminary designs and drawings for the new municipal building. That building will be constructed at the same time a consortium including Vail Valley Medical Center, the Steadman Clinic and the Steadman Philippon Research Foundation will build a medical office building on western end of the property.
Although the buildings will look like one big complex, the medical building and town hall are actually two projects linked by a few surface parking spaces and a public plaza.
Sherry Dorward recently got the job of designing that plaza, and is excited by the prospect of putting something besides just concrete between the buildings. But, she said, doing that will require designers and architects to work together.
While putting a sod roof atop a building like the Vail Public Library is pretty straightforward, Dorward said putting a plaza that includes trees will take some planning, since even a small tree will need a three-foot hole in the ground.
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