Status: Completed in 2002

Developer: City of Des Moines

Cost: $7 Million

Category: Recreation and Entertainment

Etc:

• Clean up and restoration of Gray's Lake Park, a former gravel quarry turned into an urban lake located immediately south of downtown
• Park contains a lighted, paved recreational trail including Iowa's longest concrete span pedestrian bridge
• Other features include a boat rental house and marina with concessions, heavy landscaping, road extensions and public restrooms
• Currently the City of Des Moines' most active park and serves as a landscaped gateway into downtown
• Project once encompassed an outdoor amphitheater, a boardwalk and other features, but were dropped from the project due to concerns with overcrowding

July 2004

July 2002