South Canton Park

Details:

  • City of Canton

  • Canton, Georgia

Highlights:

  • South Canton Park is a 6-acre, $8 million project designed by TSW for the City of Canton, featuring amenities such as an amphitheater, playgrounds, dog parks, and public art spaces.
  • TSW’s design emphasizes sustainability, incorporating bioswales, permeable parking, a rainwater cistern, native plants, and tree preservation to minimize environmental impact.

Description:

TSW was retained by the City of Canton to develop a design and develop constructions documents for the 6-acre South Canton Park. TSW provided landscape architecture and architecture services for the $8 million park that includes a small amphitheater and pavilion, open lawn, playgrounds, elevated boardwalk, dog parks, space for food trucks, restrooms, solar shade structures, and spaces for public art installations.

The design team used roadside bioswales, permeable gravel parking lots with underground retention, and a rainwater cistern to reduce the amount of stormwater runoff and reduce the size of the detention pond needed on site. The City and TSW team were dedicated to saving as many trees on site as possible. TSW
is also committed to using a 100% native plant palette throughout the site, providing food and habitat for pollinators, birds, and more.