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Potsdam's Garner Park in line for major renovation

Posted 1/9/20

POTSDAM – The village’s long-planned Downtown Riverwalk Project is taking another step forward after trustees approved a landscape contractor to design renovations to Garner Park, on the river at …

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Potsdam's Garner Park in line for major renovation

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POTSDAM – The village’s long-planned Downtown Riverwalk Project is taking another step forward after trustees approved a landscape contractor to design renovations to Garner Park, on the river at Raymond Street.

The Chazen Companies were approved at the village board’s Monday, Jan. 6 meeting as the surveyor and designer of the work at Garner Park.

On Thursday, a representative of Chazen and Mayor Reinhold Tischler signed the contract for the job, and the company's environmental review began immediately, according to village Planning and Development Director Fred Hanss.

The Chazen Companies specialize in landscape design and engineering consulting. The firm was founded in 1947 and is based in Troy, N.Y.

The Garner Park Renovation Project is being paid for by grants of $50,000 each from Canton-Potsdam Hospital and Clarkson University, a $40,000 grant from the Dormitory Authority of State of New York, and other funding.

The park, named after late Mayor Ruth Garner, is a strip along the north bank of the Raquette River just below the East Dam and across the river from Evans and White Hardware.

The total project cost, from design through construction, is estimated at $295,000.

The new park design will include sidewalks, LED lighting, and other features.

The Riverwalk, first proposed in the village’s 2012 Downtown and Waterfront Revitalization Plan, starts at the corner of Maple and Market streets moving west, crossing the river on the twin bridges, connecting to a village-owned lane behind Swan Landing Apartments, re-crossing the river at Sandstone Drive, connecting at Garner Park, then east on Raymond Street and then back to the starting point.

The Garner Park renovation will complete another part of he waterfront plan, after Chazen’s redesign of Ives Park several years ago.

The work on Garner Park is expected to be complete this summer.