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Paint the Town Green

Bike Hub
RiverScape
MetroPark
Five Rivers MetroParks
Dayton, Ohio
Opened May 2010
4,946 square feet
$4 million for entire 2.6acre site including plaza
and remediation
LEED Silver
Commuter and
recreational cycling center
at former brownfield site

campus of the Robert L. Taylor Community Complex
features a gymnasium, aquatics center, amphitheater, fitness center, childcare, art room, and even a
recording studio. What it does not include is invasive
plants or plants unsuited to Florida's climate.
" We have included such practices as the right
plant, right location policy and the use of Floridafriendly landscaping materials, with 50 percent use
of Florida native plants for all landscape plans, " says
Todd Kucharski, general manager of City of Sarasota
Public Works Department.

Some buildings happen to be green while others
help to make green happen. In Ohio, Dayton's system of riverside bike trails converges at the Bike Hub,
a multi-functional LEED Silver facility on the Great
Miami River that services bicycle commuters, recreational cyclists, park event-goers, and skaters at an
adjoining ice rink. Frequent cyclists can join the facility's Hub Club, offering access to showers, locker
rooms, and an indoor bike garage.
" The green aspects of the project really began
with the site, " says Lydia Sowles, park planner for
Five Rivers MetroParks. " It's a reuse of a formerly
contaminated site-it was Sears Automotive Center
before the City of Dayton purchased it....We had an
environmental cleanup aspect to the project that was
pretty extensive. "
With recycled crushed concrete fill, reflective
pavement and shade trees on the surrounding plaza to reduce heat absorption, and a green roof, the
Bike Hub also fills a long-term need for bike facility
support identified on the regional bikeway plan. Federal transportation and state recreational trail grants
helped fund the project.
" You see people riding bikes everywhere, " Sowles
says. " There's been a recent resurgence in developing some residential housing nearby....That's been a
long-term goal for RiverScape MetroPark all along-
to encourage people to come downtown and help revitalize the city and make it a livable place to be. "
In San Diego County, California's first LEED Platinum park building, the San Elijo Lagoon Nature
Center, serves a dual role in
teaching about nature while
helping to conserve natural
resources. Situated in a 975acre ecological reserve, the
nature center offers public
San Elijo Lagoon
Nature Center
Cardiff By The Sea, San
Diego County, California
Opened January 2009
5,525 square feet
$3.9 million
LEED Platinum
Environmental education
center became first LEED
Platinum park building in
California

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