Final Design of Crossings Playground Unveiled
On October 23, 2019 at the Get Involved Lethbridge Community Conversation, Lethbridge Land unveiled the design of the new Crossings Playground. And wowsers! Kids are excited!!! This playground includes the latest and greatest of playground equipment and large numbers of kids from toddler to young teen will enjoy being engaged, active and having a blast with friends! This playground is also built with accessibility in mind and features accessible surfacing and many accessible playground elements.
Playground Rendering - Looking south-west
Playground Rendering - looking north-east
Playground Features
This playground features the following elements (*denotes accessible feature):
Swings*
Spinners
All Terrain Track
Games Plaza featuring twister, snakes + ladders, hopscotch, and bean bag toss*
Seating Plazas*
Fully accessible surfacing including a mix of pour in place rubber, engineered wood fibre, concrete and asphalt*
Crab Trap Climbing Structure
Super Netplex Tower*
Dual Zip Track*
Wee-Go-Round*
Smart Play Toddler Structure*
Nature Play Area with stumps, logs, log tunnels, rocks, ropes and cabin play house*
Climbing dome
Playground Layout
Location
This playground is located on a future Holy Spirit Catholic School site in Phase 7 of Crossings. The site is on the corner of Caledonia Boulevard and Abitibi Road and the playground is situated in the northeast corner of the site. At this time, funding for construction of the school has not been approved by the Province of Alberta and Alberta Education. Please check back for updates.
Schedule
Project Kick Off - January 2019
Community Survey + Forum - March to May 2019
Preliminary Design + Community Feedback - May 2019
Final Design - October 2019
Construction - Spring 2020
Preliminary Playground Opening - Fall 2020
Background
In January 2019, Lethbridge Land kicked off the playground project. From March 21st to May 27th, a survey and forum were posted on www.GetInvolvedLethbridge.ca to gather community input on the project. The survey featured two main questions: what types of playground elements do your children most or least play with; and what things are most important to you. Residents were also asked “if you could build your dream playground, what would you include?” 34 survey responses were received and 19 forum posts all providing feedback to help shape the playground design.
Lethbridge Land worked with local engineering firm Stantec Consulting to create a preliminary design that included ideas and requests from the community. On May 29th, 2019, the preliminary design was unveiled at the Community Conversation, on social media and on the Crossings website. Again, Lethbridge Land asked for feedback on the design.
Based on the feedback received on the preliminary design, Lethbridge Land and Stantec Consulting made changes to the design and unveiled the final product at the Community Conversation on Oct 23rd. The feedback was fantastic and the only real question was “WHEN is this playground going to BE OPEN???!” Next fall, little ones. Next fall. :)
We want to keep the conversation going and would love to hear your feedback on the playground or answer any questions that you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact us directly.
Abby Slovack
Land Development Manager
Lethbridge Land
abby.slovack@lethbridge.ca
403.320.4236