Park Place: Madison takes another crack at connecting downtown to Lake Monona
Park Place: Madison takes another crack at connecting downtown to Lake Monona
By Joe Tarr, Isthmus
“It’s a problem that Madisonians have been trying to solve for more than a century — how to create a public space along Lake Monona that connects to downtown.
Eric Knepp, the city’s parks superintendent, hopes that this generation will be the one to solve it. “Multiple generations have wrestled with this issue and as of yet, we haven’t yet figured it out,” Knepp says. “But I’m hopeful with this one we will.”
The city is now getting behind the effort that could completely transform downtown and the lakefront. The Parks Division is finalizing a $190,000 contract with the Madison office of SmithGroup, an architectural, engineering and planning firm. The company will be doing preliminary technical work to determine what could be possible with Law Park and the Monona lakefront. Working with subcontractors, it will also begin gathering public input in June about how people would like to use the park…”