Ice Age Park could be done as soon as summer of 2020

The Ice Age Park in Electric City may be done as soon as the late summer of 2020.

The city council June 11 approved to have SPVV Landscape Architects, who designed the master plan for the park in 2018, move forward with specific designs for the park.

The city applied for grant money from the Washington State Recreation & Conservation Office and is ranked 15th out of 91 applicants to get a grant in the amount of $257,649, which the city must match, for a total project cost of $515,298.

Jena Jauchius of SPVV said the park will be Electric City’s first public park and that they and the city both “want something for everybody, from kids to elders.”

Jauchius said that they could break ground as early as this fall, and estimates a late summer 2020 completion date.

The park design includes items that were laid out in the 2018 master plan, including the following:

• Ice-age themed playground area with play equipment, structures, • musical instruments, and sand play area with a fossil dig,

• splash pad,

• picnic shelter,

• restrooms,

• asphalt paths,

• interpretive signage,

• basalt gateway features,

• shade tree and drought-tolerant plants,

• lawn areas,

• fencing, and

• Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant parking space.