Quakertown Park Visioning Workshop

The Design Downtown Denton project team held a Quakertown Park Visioning Workshop from 9am to 9pm this past Saturday, October 7th at the Arts & Jazz Fest. Tents were set up next to the Law Office of Tim Powers' UNT Jazz Stage and featured a number of exercises, including visual boards that attendees could mark with stickers to indicate their preferred park features and designs, a comment board with “big picture” park questions, and a paper survey focused on how attendees traveled to Quakertown Park and how they use the space. In addition to these exercises, children activities were included, such as the “design-a-park” coloring activity.

Over the course of the day, the project team was able to interact with and gather feedback from well over 200 attendees of all ages. All feedback was recorded and will be used to help guide the project team's preparation of the initial vision for the new Quakertown Park plan. A future event is planned to seek feedback from direct decedents of Quakertown Park regarding any memorial ideas.