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Charleston Heights Groundbreaking

By John Ritz

June 15, 2021 Architecture, Community, Design, Learn, News, Project Updates, Team, Uncategorized

Last week, City of Las Vegas Ward 5 Councilman Cedric Crear hosted the groundbreaking for a high-tech community center and park makeover at Charleston Heights Park.

“This heavily used older park is ready for a makeover,” said Councilman Crear. “What a great opportunity to provide the neighborhood with a much-needed community center while we renovate the park. This will be the first park in the city to combine high-tech with recreation, and I believe it could be the model for how parks are designed in the future, as we move into the age of S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics).”

Knit worked closely with the project team at the City of Las Vegas to develop a full scope of work for the project including a “tech” community center and a remodeled park to include various programmatic elements. Numerous meetings have been held with our project team with the City of Las Vegas and Knit.

The building is designed to be a single-story structure that is a total of 6,155 SF located within the roughly 3.9 acres that make up the current Charleston Heights Park. The structure is divided into a Community building and a Restroom structure that shares its structure with the Community Center. The building consists primarily of a S.T.E.A.M. room, a Flex Use Classroom, an Esports/Virtual Reality room, and a Multi-media room. The Park component of the project is designed to incorporate CLV standard for Smart Cities and include numerous programmatic elements. In addition, the park is designed to include new walking paths, a playground featuring equipment that lends itself to the technology theme of project, and a full basketball court.