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Park + Plaza Blog

February 17th 2010

The Art of Being Santa Fe


By HENRY SHUKMAN
taken from the New York Times to view original article click here

February 7, 2010

I CAN’T remember how or why it came to be dawn when I first saw Santa Fe from a bus window. It was my first time in New Mexico, the fulfillment of a long-held dream: to visit [...]

January 5th 2010

Railyard Park Receives a 2010 Best Building Award


The Best Buildings judges recently selected the Railyard Park for the 2010 Best Buildings Awards from the Associated General Contractors New Mexico Building branch.
Winners were chosen by a contractor’s toughest critics-a group of peers-and judged on: meeting the challenge of a difficult job; excellence in project management; contractor’s innovation in construction techniques; contractor’s [...]

December 29th 2009

A New Decade, A New Park


Welcome to Santa Fe’s newest park!  We are the Railyard Stewards, a new grassroots organization working in partnership with the City of Santa Fe, The Trust for Public Land and the Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation to provide community stewardship and advocacy for the care and programming of the Railyard Park + Plaza.  Our [...]

December 15th 2009

Railyard Rising – Quick Facts about the Railyard


Did you know that the public debut of the Railyard Park and Plaza on Sept. 13 and 14 last year was only the first step of an important relationship between Santa Feans and their new park and plaza? In an effort to nurture this relationship, the Trust for Public Land has formed the Railyard Park [...]

May 12th 2009

Railyard Park + Plaza is Awarded Prestigious Urban Design Award


AWARD FOR PLACEMAKING
taken from www.architects.org
The Santa Fe Railyard Park in Santa Fe, New Mexico for The Trust for Public Land (Santa Fe) and City of Santa Fe Parks and Recreation
The park was designed by Ken Smith Landscape Architect (New York) and Frederic Schwartz Architects (New York) with project team members Mary Miss (artist, New York), [...]

January 5th 2009

Railyard Stewards Launch Website


The Railyard Stewards have been working over the past three months to complete a website that will allow the public to find current information about the Railyard Park + Plaza. After interviewing users of the park the organization felt that a current and functional website would help Santa Feans use this incredible space in a [...]