Twin Creeks Linear Park - 7 mile trail system in developing area - design competition winners announced | KCMO.org

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The City of Kansas City is sponsoring a design competition to bring in new ideas, energy, and visions to the development of Twin Creeks, a 15,000 acre predominantly rural area in the Northland of Kansas City that is projected to house up to 75,000 people over the next 20+ years.

The focus of this competition is developing an inspiring vision for a potential new linear park that could stretch over 7 miles and up to 1,000 acres and serve as a backbone of the area. Individuals and multi-disciplinary design teams from across the United States and beyond with expertise in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, engineering, economic analysis, transportation, sustainability, community development, and public art, amongst other fields are invited to submit design proposals for the competition.

Entries must include an overall linear park conceptual design and illustrations of the four different design scenario conditions, as described within the competition briefing book. Up to three teams will be selected as winning teams and will present their proposals at a public event in Kansas City with the City, stakeholders and general public. The City will offer $24,000 in total prize awards, to be distributed evenly between the selected winning teams. One student submission will also be selected for Honorary Mention. Design proposals will be used to shape and inspire a new linear park and development in Twin Creeks.

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Twin Creeks Linear Park - 7 mile trail system in developing area - design competition winners announced | KCMO.org

http://www.kcmo.gov/designtwincreeks/

KCMO Mayor Sly James will present each winning team with $8,000 in prize money when they present their proposals at the Twin Creeks Design Competition Exhibition on October 19, 2016 at 10 a.m. at the Platte County Resource Center at 11724 NW Plaza Circle, Kansas City, Mo., 64153.

It is good to see cities putting this much forward planning into their developing areas, and working to incorporate streamways and other natural trail corridors into area plans before development begins.

For too long we have ignored this type of planning in Missouri; kudos to KCMO for doing it on this project.