Bernard Avenue Revitalisation, Kelowna, BC, Canada
(Gabe Ross with Golder Associates Ltd.)
Gabe served as landscape design lead and project manager for the detailed design and construction management of this $11M seven block streetscape renewal of the core downtown street of Kelowna. The project has created a Downtown ‘living room’ where residents and visitors come to enjoy a vibrant pedestrian and bicycle friendly space and has served as a catalyst for tens of millions of dollars of new private sector projects in the downtown. The project received the International Downtown Association Pinnacle award for Public Space.
Images © Fred Schaad Photography
Stuart Park Phase 1, Kelowna, BC, Canada
(Gabe Ross with Stantec Consulting Ltd)
The $6M project saw the redevelopment of a brownfield site fronting City Hall and the Okanagan Lake waterfront into a multipurpose urban park space. Key features include performance stages, a multiuse plaza that converts to a refrigerated ice rink in winter, riparian restoration, custom furnishings & lighting, new waterfront promenade, civic awards plaza and an iconic ‘bear’ sculpture. The project received national and international recognition the 2010 Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Awards and 2010 Design Exchange Awards (DXA)
CNR Wharf Park, West Kelowna, BC, Canada
(Gabe Ross with Golder Associates Ltd.)
Located in the heart of Gellatly Bay on Lake Okanagan the historic CNR wharf has for generations served as a destination for residents and visitors to enjoy jumping into cool waters of the lake. While beloved, the wharf had become unsafe and dilapidated and the Municipality commissioned Golder Associates to undertake a public consultation process to guide a comprehensive redevelopment plan. The concept was sucessfully adopted by Council and Golder prepared detailed design and construction documentation for a new Wharf park that included wharf reconstruction with dive platforms, and ziplines, a swim bay, riparian restoration and beach replenishment. Phase 1 was successfully built in 2014 and received a regional heritage award for the preservation of the historic character of the site. Phase 2 is expected to be built within the next few years.
Images © Fred Schaad Photography
