The park, adjacent to Harley-Davidson headquarters, doubles as stormwater retention infrastructure.
A former parking lot on the campus of the Harley-Davidson headquarters in Milwaukee has been turned into a 4-acre park that doubles as green infrastructure, reports Robin Griggs Lawrence in Smart Cities Dive.
According to Lawrence, "The sunken amphitheater — a multi-use events space with tiered promenades for seating, motorcycle parking and vendor staging — is the heart of the design team’s green infrastructure solution. Essentially a bowl with cisterns beneath it that collect stormwater and then slowly release it into the sewer system, it is called The Hub in homage to the hub of a motorcycle wheel."
The project was a partnership between construction company CIS and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District and includes "bioswales, bioretention systems, native landscaping, pervious pavers and an underground detention system that’s able to capture and filter more than 225,000 gallons of stormwater that once had nowhere to go."
Read the full story: Harley-Davidson replaced pavement with flood protection, creating a new Milwaukee park
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