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Centennial Park design team named; Vanderbilt plays role in master planning

Posted 2/9/2010

Landscape architects Gustafson Guthrie Nichol will lead the design team preparing a new master plan for Centennial Park, near the Vanderbilt campus.

Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos is the honorary chair of the committee working on long-term planning for the park, which is across West End Avenue.

“Centennial Park is an extension of our campus and is used daily by our faculty, students, staff and many visitors,” Zeppos said. “This long-term planning will take an already outstanding park to the next level.”

The Centennial Park Master Plan, to be completed over the next 10 months, will include analyses of existing site facilities and conditions, development recommendations, phasing recommendations, and cost estimates.

The university has contributed funding for the master plan, and Mayor Karl Dean thanked Vanderbilt and other private sector donors for their “public recognition of Centennial Park’s significance in our city’s landscape.”

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol’s proposal was picked from a field of 23.

In the summer of 2008, Centennial Park was added to the National Register for Historic Places, the nation’s official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation. The centerpiece of the park, The Parthenon, has been on the National Register since 1972.

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