Downtown Cary Park Construction
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Published
February 2023

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Downtown Cary Park, Construction

Downtown Cary Park is a seven-acre, centerpiece collaboration between the Town of Cary, OJB Landscape Architecture, Machado Silvetti, and a host of consultants, community members, and the town’s council and manager’s office.

Pavilions

Construction continues on Downtown Cary Park, with significant progress having been made over the fall and through the winter months on the Great Lawn and Academy Pavilions, Bark Bar and Gathering House. Machado Silvetti has designed the five park pavilions, which are set in a diverse OJB-designed landscape. The park will offer spaces for performance, indoor events, and dog play. Natural materials—warm woods, bricks, and metals—and curving forms help coalesce buildings with landscape. The park is expected to open to the public in the Fall of 2023.

Downtown Cary Park is a seven-acre, centerpiece collaboration between the Town of Cary, OJB Landscape Architecture, Machado Silvetti, and a host of consultants, community members, and the town’s council and manager’s office.Construction continues on Downtown Cary Park, with significant progress having been made over the fall and through the winter months on the Great Lawn and Academy Pavilions, Bark Bar and Gathering House. Machado Silvetti has designed the five park pavilions, which are set in a diverse OJB-designed landscape. The park will offer spaces for performance, indoor events, and dog play. Natural materials—warm woods, bricks, and metals—and curving forms help coalesce buildings with landscape. The park is expected to open to the public in the Fall of 2023.

Each of the five park pavilions was designed for a different part of the park, and each provides unique spaces for a range of activities and programs. The pavilions are designed to be flexible and to encourage exploration in the ways that they can be used.

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  • This seven-acre park is the centerpiece of an investment by the citizens of the Town of Cary to enhance, expand and protect the accessible public vibrancy of their rapidly growing community. Located in the heart of downtown Cary, the park is a transformational synthesis of urban design, landscape, architecture and programming that benefits the Town Cary and the greater region. Learn more about the project here.

  • On Saturday, June 26th, a groundbreaking ceremony officially began construction on the Downtown Cary Park. The highly programmed ceremony was well attended with Town administrators, residents and local news all excited for what’s to come. Machado Silvetti Principal Jeffry Burchard and Associate Austin Ward were in attendance at the groundbreaking, participating in a public forum on the design of the park, along with OJB Landscape Architecture team leaders, Cody Klein and Simon Beer. Read more about the groundbreaking here.

  • As the construction document phase of the Downtown Cary Park project wraps up, the project has been recognized by 2020 Architect's Newspaper Best of Design, awarded an honorable mention in the Unbuilt Landscape category. Exciting new renderings of the Park have been released, showcasing a vibrant and seamless integration of Machado Silvetti-designed park pavilions with OJB-designed programmed landscape. Read more about the award here.

  • Project updates, upcoming events, construction features, & site visits — Continue exploring news articles and stories here.