Parks & Recreation | Long Engineering

CIVIL SITE DESIGN | PARKS & RECREATION

Despite the rapid pace of life, people still enjoy taking time to participate in recreational activities and the thrill of being outdoors. Long Engineering (LONG) is pleased to have provided civil engineering services on variety of parks and recreational projects throughout Georgia. We have worked with Federal, State, and Local Municipalities on a diverse list of recreation projects for both public and private sectors.

Sweetwater Creek State Park Visitors Center

Douglas County, Georgia

D. H. Stanton Park

Atlanta, Georgia

Bellwood Quarry Park

Atlanta, Georgia

Jim R. Miller Park

Marietta, Georgia

Sweetwater Creek State Park Visitor Center

Douglas County, Georgia

The 12,000 square foot Visitor Center includes exhibit areas, retail space, administrative offices, an audio/visual room, a multi-purpose room, water quality lab, classrooms, and restrooms. This uniquely sustainable project undertaken by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources received LEED Platinum Certification, making it the first project in Georgia to receive this distinction. At the time, it was also one of only 20 buildings in the world to receive LEED’s highest level of certification.

D. H. Stanton Park

Atlanta, Georgia

The existing park along the Atlanta Beltline was renovated and upgraded to include multi-use trails, a splash pad with a commissioned work of public art at its center, a gazebo, new site furnishings, updated landscaping and multi-use fields with accessible restrooms, and a concession stand for the neighboring community. The park also contains enhanced swale bio-retention areas to revitalize vegetative areas and is the first energy cost-neutral park in the City of Atlanta, featuring the use of photovoltaic solar panels to provide shade structure and also generate energy that is being sold back to Georgia Power.

Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry

Atlanta, Georgia

The $26.5 million Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry is 280 acres, the largest greenspace in the City of Atlanta. It will also be transformative for Westside neighborhoods and become the home of a critical 2.4 billion gallon backup source of drinking water for the city. Park elements include a grand entrance, circulation drives, parking lots, a Grand Lawn, a spectacular overlook to view the quarry reservoir and trails.

LONG provided the design of all roadways and grading and drainage plans as well as sediment, erosion and pollution control plans for Phase 1A of the project that encompassed 20 acres. This included the design of 8,200 feet of roadway and a 226 space surface parking lot that drained to 8 individual bio-retention ponds providing 1.1 million gallons of storage. Gravel infiltration trenches were provided along much of the pavement edge to promote infiltration of runoff. In all, almost 500,000 gallons of runoff was retained or infiltrated. Sanitary sewer and domestic water was provided to two new restroom buildings and a 6” irrigation line was provided to the Grand Lawn. Phase 1B included a 166 space parking lot draining to 6 bio-retention ponds and infiltration trenches, a Grand Lawn, a second restroom building, a pavilion and 6,800 feet of trails. Design included a fire protection line, domestic water and irrigation line and sanitary sewer to the restroom building and pavilion.

Location

Atlanta, GA

Client

Reeves + Young

Services Provided

Civil Engineering/Site Design, Construction Documentation, Permitting, Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)

Date Completed

2021

Jim R. Miller Park

Marietta, Georgia

Jim R. Miller Park is an existing facility that hosts major events, concerts, trade shows, rodeos, and festivals. Two of its existing buildings were demolished to make way for a new $13.2 million, 41,000 square foot exhibit hall at the existing Jim R. Miller Park. The exhibit hall will also feature a kitchen and three new exhibit halls focused on supporting corporate meetings, banquets, and trade shows. A 40 space parking lot was also constructed to support the new building.