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Warren Riverview Park wins national award

- Adventure Park Designed for Teens
- Community Event Space
- Flooding Mitigation
- Green Infrastructure
- Site Development and Reuse
- National Award Winning
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The Warren Riverview Park embraces and celebrates its neighbor — the Arkansas River. Most people just driving by don’t have time to soak in the beauty of the river. The park offers a space to take that river view in. Surrounded by stone benches, and lawn terraces, the rustic-themed Warren Riverview Park features a canoe launch, ropes course, an interactive boulder wall, handicap-accessible playground, covered shelter, community event space with river overlook, and landscape designed for increased water flows.
The park, nestled against the east bank of the Arkansas River between Market Street and Washington Avenue, once held the Public Works facility, which was relocated to 55th Street. Robert Mendoza, Director of Public Works for the City of Derby, a community volunteer team of about 30 people and the WDM-PEC design team worked on many variations of the park. The park went through about a year’s design process and is a compilation of a lot of ideas, discussions and planning.
That process was rewarded by the American Public Works Association (APWA) who selected it as the recipient of the National Public Works Project of the Year Award for small cities/rural communities in the structures award category. The award was recognized during APWA’s PWX (Public Works Expo) in Seattle, WA. Infrastructure projects publicly developed, owned, and maintained are chosen for promoting excellence in construction management and administration. The award recognizes the alliance between – the City of Derby, community volunteers, the consultants PEC and WDM, the contractor Snodgrass & Sons – and their cooperative achievements.