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General Project Information

Architectural Credit:

Snow Kreilich Architects

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Project Substantial Completion Date: 11/25/2024
Program type(s): Education – General, Public Assembly – General, Public Assembly – Recreation, Public Assembly - Social/Meeting
Total Site Area (gross sq. ft): 297,945 gsf
Total Building Area (gross sq. ft): 4700 gsf
Project substantial completion date: 11/25/2024
Climate zone: 6A
Project site: Brownfield
Project team: Architect of Record: Snow Kreilich Architects
Snow Kreilich Design Principal-in-Charge: Julie Snow, FAIA, NOMA
Snow Kreilich Project Manager: Mary Springer, AIA, LEED AP
Snow Kreilich Project Designer: Doug Gerlach, AIA, LEED AP, CPHC
Snow Kreilich Project Architects: Mary Springer, AIA, LEED AP, Doug Gerlach, AIA, LEED AP, CPHC
Snow Kreilich Project Design Team and Construction Administration Lead: Tamer Azzazi, Associate AIA
Snow Kreilich Project Design Team: Brad Smith, AIA, LEED AP BD+C; Jordan Strickland, Associate AIA, NOMA; Christina Stark, AIA

Sustainability: Cause Sustainability
Landscape Architect: Aune Fernandez Landscape Architects
MEP Engineering: Victus Engineering
Electrical Engineering: Paulson & Clark Engineering
Structural Engineer: Meyer Borgman Johnson
Civil Engineer: Barr Engineering
Acoustical Engineering: Venneklassen
Cost Estimating: Rockwise Strategies (formerly Loeffler Consulting Engineers

Project Overview:
Graco Park posits a model for urban parks centered on habitat creation and opportunity incubation. Built on a brownfield site, the park is designed to bolster migrating bird flyways and riverine ecological systems, while creating a new link in an emerging green space network along the historically underserved banks of the Mississippi north of downtown Minneapolis. The park’s net zero community center, the River Hub, includes much-needed space for community gathering and a technological makers’ space for teens. The building's simple shed-like form and wood construction conserve embodied carbon, while drawing connections to the site's history as a lumber mill.

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