Town Center: Heritage Park Master Plan & Alley Activation

Heritage Park Design and Alley Activation Area

In 2022-2023, JETT Landscape Architecture + Design worked with us and all of you to re-imagine Reuben Knoblauch Heritage Park as a more active, useful heart of the city, for special events and every day use. They also designed an activation for the adjacent alley, naming it Hops Alley, to serve as a flexible event space and for a more accessible and inviting parking area for its day use.

At 30% design, the resulting concepts are here for you to explore in photos and videos. Now, in 2024, JETT will continue that design so that we have plans for both

In 2022-2023, JETT Landscape Architecture + Design worked with us and all of you to re-imagine Reuben Knoblauch Heritage Park as a more active, useful heart of the city, for special events and every day use. They also designed an activation for the adjacent alley, naming it Hops Alley, to serve as a flexible event space and for a more accessible and inviting parking area for its day use.

At 30% design, the resulting concepts are here for you to explore in photos and videos. Now, in 2024, JETT will continue that design so that we have plans for both the alley and park ready for construction in the future. This design phase is funded with a grant from Pierce County Lodging Tax. Please continue to visit this page and provide input as we move closer to making these concepts a reality for downtown Sumner.

These redesigns originated in 2020-2021 with the Main Street Visioning Plan, which you can still visit. That plan also identified rebuilding the roads around Heritage Park as plaza-level woonerfs, which was completed in 2023 as part of the Town Center Utility Woonerf project. It also prioritized purchasing the last privately held portion of the block at 902 Kincaid, which the City completed in 2022.

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    Project Kickoff Survey

    Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survey. Heritage Park is the heart of our community, and we would like your help to design a space that meets the needs and values of the community. Keep in mind this survey asks you questions about how to reimagine what has been known as Heritage Park along with the addition of our recent purchase of 902 Kincaid, the former “post office” building on the same block.  The survey also asks questions about the alley that connects Kincaid to Alder Avenues just south of Main St.  

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    Park Concept Alternatives

    The first phase of the Heritage Park Master Plan & Alley Activation project engaged the community to collect ideas and preferences regarding what is currently loved and well used in the vicinity of the project as well as what problems and concerns may exist regarding the project.  The preferences for events and programming, amenities, character and aesthetic, wayfinding and storytelling have led to two alternatives for Heritage Park.  Please take a few minutes to get familiar with each alternative in the "Documents" section of the main page before taking this survey.  

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