CLIENT

Park District of Highland Park

LOCATION

Highland Park, Illinois

COST

$810,000

PROJECT FEATURES

Maintenance Facility (24,000 sf)
Access Improvements
Parking / Circulation
Utility Improvements
Material Storage Bins

SCOPE OF SERVICES

Due Diligence Studies
Conceptual Planning
Design Development
Traffic Planning
Entitlement Process
Final Engineering
Construction Observation

Gewalt Hamilton Associates (GHA) assisted the Park District of Highland Park with consolidation of their existing Park Operations and Golf Operations facilities into a new 24,000-square-foot facility.

The new POGO (Park Operations/Golf Operations) facility is located at the site of a former municipal waste incinerator. A portion of the improvements are constructed over the landfill. Grading improvements were designed to minimize the cost of soil export.

The improvements are located adjacent to regulatory wetlands and floodplain. Accordingly, the project was designed for wetland avoidance and to minimize compensatory storage required by fill in the floodplain. Stormwater detention for the project was constructed on the adjacent Sunset Valley Golf Course, in conformance with the requirements of the Lake County Watershed Development Ordinance.