A silo reworked right into a lookout tower, pickleball courts, playgrounds and a pollinator backyard are a few of the concepts being thought of for the deliberate park on Haligus Street in Lakewood.

The Crystal Lake Park District hosted a gathering Tuesday, throughout which renderings and a grasp plan for the park had been unveiled. The designs had been based mostly on concepts and options the general public had pitched throughout a earlier assembly in October.

These renderings confirmed potential concepts corresponding to painted silos, pickleball courts, a number of playgrounds and a pollinator backyard. The grasp plan, put collectively by the Hitchcock Design Group, is supposed to convey an “natural circulate” idea that highlights the world’s pastoral setting.

The park would be the first the district has constructed in additional than 20 years, Government Director Jason Herbster stated.

“This complete course of may be very thrilling,” Herbster stated. “The idea Hitchcock Design Group got here up with is way totally different than every other park in our park system.”

Herbster stated the world close to the park was an “underserved group” and that the village of Lakewood initially reached out to them a couple of years in the past about constructing a park.

The renderings nonetheless had been “conceptual,” and a few of the present constructions on the positioning, such because the silos, have to be structurally sound or they’ll be eliminated, Herbster stated. If the silo does keep, the stand-alone silo might change into a lookout tower.

“It’s a pleasant, historic amenity we are able to do one thing with,” Herbster stated.

Throughout Tuesday’s assembly, a couple of dozen residents requested questions on the distinction between pickleball and tennis and how briskly bikes might journey within the space. Herbster stated he was completely happy general with how the assembly went and the suggestions the park district has obtained.

“Pickleball is the biggest booming sport within the nation proper now,” Herbster stated. “There’s excessive demand for [courts] as a result of there’s nothing like that on that aspect of city.”

The following step for the park mission can be making use of for an Open House Lands Acquisition and Improvement Grant and figuring out what funding would possibly appear like, Herbster stated.

The most costly objects for the park are what Herbster described as “the nonsexy issues” that aren’t as seen, corresponding to land grading and leveling and including utilities.

The timeline for the grant funding additionally would decide the timeline for the park’s building, however Herbster stated it in all probability could be constructed inside the subsequent two years.