Denver residents won’t have to use their imaginations to visualize a shortlist of “reimagined” designs for a proposed $5 million playground in City Park.
Today through June 7, eight designs will travel to seven public venues around the city as part of the initiative.
“The goal is to engage the community in 2012 through a progression that will challenge currently accepted definitions of play and rethink play as a multigenerational, unique, multifaceted experience in an urban space,” Denver Parks and Recreation said Wednesday.
The designs include such features as an amphitheater that doubles as an ice-skating rink, waterfalls and sprayers, boulder fields, acres of open lawns, high-plains flora, hogbacklike climbing formations, a fishing bridge, slides, swings and suspension webs.
The $5 million budget includes seed money from the city and county, but at least $3 million of the cost will come from grants, donations and other fundraising.
The display dates and venues are:
• Friday and Saturday: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd.
• Sunday, noon to 3 p.m., Cake Crumbs, 2216 Kearney St.
• Monday to May 25, Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele St.
• May 26, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., City Park Dustin Redd playground, 1700 York St.
• May 29 to June 1, Denver Central Library, 10 W. 14th Ave.
• June 1, 6 to 9 p.m., County Fair at City Park, City Park Pavilion, 1700 N. York St.
• June 4-7, Wellington E. Webb Building, 201 W. Colfax Ave.
