Grand Plaza

The Grand Plaza takes the form of a broken circle, which creates public gathering space, yet allows flexibility in terms of paving surfaces, sometimes breaking the flow of the pavement with grassy areas or openings from existing trees. Central to the plaza is a cast bronze medallion, set into the paving, which marks the virtual beginning of the orchard, the seed of the park/City/Davis Family. From the central core, “roots” extend into the plaza paving, and a history walk flows outward, to the Greenbelt and the Boise River. Wide spots with markers along the history walk commemorate historic elements of the park and its relation to the Davis family. At its outset, the walk crosses the center of an existing circle of trees where an intermittent, at-grade water feature is proposed as a symbolic tie-in to the first water rights ever granted to the City of Boise.