SUN-FS-03: From Vision to Reality: Innovative Biophilic Park Renaissance in Arlington County

Sunday, October 6, 2024

7:45am – 3:45pm ET

Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Field Session Departure Area 1

4.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, NY/HSW, FL
Ticket Price: $125 per person

Field Session Leader(s)

Marco A. Rivero (he/him/his)

APA, Principal Planner
Arlington County, Department of Parks and Recreation
Arlington, Virginia
Jeanette Ankoma-Sey, ASLA, PLA, LEED GA

Landscape Architect/Project Manager
Arlington County DPR
Alexandria, Virginia

Session Guide

Field Session Presenter(s)

Rob Gray, ASLA, PLA, LEED AP

Principal
Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects
Kansas City, Missouri
Justin Jackson, ASLA, PLA

Senior Associate
Field Operations
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tomora Wright

Project Manager
Arlington Public Art
Arlington, Virginia

Arlington’s strong planning history and world-class parks system is receiving an infusion of high-quality parks with the arrival of Amazon to Crystal City and Pentagon City. This session explores the county-led and developer domino effect in park transformations, starting with Long Bridge Park, then going to Metropolitan Park and Water Park.

Includes: transportation. Moderate walking. Lunch on your own.

Learning Outcomes:

Discover how public-private partnerships (planning/design professionals and developers) are enlivening existing and earmarked park spaces through an inclusive engagement process.
Hear how valuable the Arlington public art process is and how redevelopment of parks is a major catalyst for economic growth strategies.
Experience the design and biophilic strategies which create new public spaces promoting site history, landscape typologies, as well as innovative and sustainable functions.
Learn how Arlington’s long range and current planning process provides guidance, sets expectations and requirements to create a nature-forward vision to the public space experience thus activating new and successful programming opportunities.