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ging trail. It also has an internal pedestrian plaza and concourse, picnic areas, concession/restroom facilities, play equipment, on-site maintenance facilities, and fully automated irrigation and lighting systems. Win-win collaboration According to the terms of the agreement, the college has access to the site between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays and the park district runs programs from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and on weekends. The concept of organizations working together is nothing new and has been tackled on other projects throughout the Portland area, but Hadley believes this cooperative effort was unique. “I’ve never seen it at this scale, with such a large project and such a large piece of land,” Hadley said. The key to making the cooperative effort work, Hadley said, was a fluid communication process. Still, once the work was under way, the organizers had to resolve a larger laundry list of details. “As the project started and everyone rolled up their sleeves, one of the issues that had to be continually addressed was the parking arrangement,” Hadley said. The park district and school eventually decided that the 275 new parking stalls for the athletic facility would involve shared parkPervious pavers and bioswales are integrated into the ing, an arrangement Hadley parking lot design for storm water management. dubbed a “win-win.” “The college operates it during they had competing goals, but we the day so during daylight hours stu- worked through it,” he said. dents can use the parking lot. On the evenings and weekends it’s used by the Sustainable features park district,” he said. Hadley is quick to trumpet the efforts Hadley said even with constant com- on all sides to create a host of munication between parties, it was im- environmentally friendly aspects with possible to avoid the extra layer of the project. “That probably is the numcoordination the project demanded. ber one key element of the site when you “My client was the park district, yet talk about sustainability and stewardthe college was a stakeholder and part- ship,” he said. ner with my client, even though I didn’t Keck agrees. have to contractually respond to the col“One of our initial goals was to imlege. That was an extra challenge in the plement as many sustainable elements as sense I had two clients and sometimes we could,” he said. Circle 159 • or www.SLDTonline.com/webcard www.SLDTonline.com 21 http://www.bluebeamrevolution.com http://www.bluebeamrevolution.com http://www.SLDTonline.com/webcard http://www.SLDTonline.com

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