Laredo City Council and members of a consortium group selected last week Overland Partners Architects and Able City to lead design and planning behind a new 6.3-mile park on the Texas-Mexico border.
Overland Partners presented aerial renderings of the park between Laredo and Neuvo Laredo, Mexico on the Rio Grande River and the Mexican side of the Rio Bravo on February 18, according to a news release. The United States Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar, U.S. Consul General for Nuevo Laredo Deanna Kim and Mexico Ambassador Esteban Moctezuma were also present.
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The project will be guided by a public-private consortium called the Binational Working Group. The 6.3-mile park along the river is an ecological restoration project that will join both nations, reestablish the river’s ecosystem, revitalize the economy and add cultural assets such as public art.
“Together with our partners and stakeholders, we want to create an international cultural destination and model for cooperation, conservation and community,” said Rick Archer, Overland senior principal and CEO, in the news release.
Overland Park has designed several high profile projects like the still up…
Laredo City Council and members of a consortium group selected last week Overland Partners Architects and Able City to lead design and planning behind a new 6.3-mile park on the Texas-Mexico border.
Overland Partners presented aerial renderings of the park between Laredo and Neuvo Laredo, Mexico on the Rio Grande River and the Mexican side of the Rio Bravo on February 18, according to a news release. The United States Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar, U.S. Consul General for Nuevo Laredo Deanna Kim and Mexico Ambassador Esteban Moctezuma were also present.
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The project will be guided by a public-private consortium called the Binational Working Group. The 6.3-mile park along the river is an ecological restoration project that will join both nations, reestablish the river’s ecosystem, revitalize the economy and add cultural assets such as public art.
“Together with our partners and stakeholders, we want to create an international cultural destination and model for cooperation, conservation and community,” said Rick Archer, Overland senior principal and CEO, in the news release.
Overland Park has designed several high profile projects like the still up…Read Morelocal_news
