Opened in late September, [Scissortail Park] is a new civic front yard on the edge of downtown, framing views of the city’s skyline with its concert stage and broad lawn.
“It’s an aspirational park, in that it’s the kind of amenity that people in Oklahoma City used to imagine only existing in other places,” says Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt.
— citylab.com
Regarding the park’s generous, publicly-oriented design, CityLab’s Zach Mortice writes, “As a gathering space in the heart of the city, Scissortail Park aims to find a large and diverse audience with a wide range of features and landscape types. Pedestrian and biking paths alternately curve or slice across it, though nearly everything orbits the park’s ovular great lawn and concert stage venue.“
The transformative park is designed by Hargreaves Associates with architectural assistance from Butzer Architects and Urbanism.
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