Des Moines – Main Street Iowa held it’s annual awards ceremony at the Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center, Veteran’s Memorial Friday, May 4th, 2012. The Mason City StreetScape, The Historic Park Inn and Volunteer Liz Fitzgerald all left the Main Street Iowa State Awards this evening with honors.
The City of Mason City won an award for Public Works Project for the StreetScape Improvements Project on Federal Avenue that was completed in August. City Engineer Mark Rahm accepted the award along with Mayor Eric Bookmeyer, Fouad Daoud of WHKS Engineering, and Pat Dunn of RDG Architecture. The project competed against Charles City’s Central Park, West Des Moines’ Railroad Avenue Public Art project, and several more.
Wright on the Park also won the Signature Project Award for The Historic Park Inn Hotel Restoration. The Signature Project Category was created this year to honor the significance of the Park Inn and City National Bank restoration. The award is for projects who fully represent Main Street Iowa’s goals of Historic Preservation, Economic Vitality and Community Growth. Jean Marinos of Wright on the Park accepted the award, along with Mayor Eric Bookmeyer, and Scott Borcherding of Bergland and Cram Architects.
Liz Fitzgerald; Board Member, Treasurer and Market Committee Chair for Main Street Mason City was named the organizations Volunteer of the Year. She was honored for her dedication to the program, flexibility in time and in skills, and her positive representation of the entire program.
Main Street Mason City is proud to accept these awards along with our community partners. Questions can be directed to Marty Walsh, Executive Director of Main Street Mason City at director@mainstreetmasoncity.org or 641-494-0003.
Central Park look great but you could fire A cannon through it most of the time and never hit a soul. I have never seen more than 4 people at any one time in the park (excluding the bus station) unless there was a special function going on. What a waste of capital. Don’t misunderstand, I love central park and have many memories of it from when I was young. Playing checkers with the retired guys and all the people that used to go there. Those days are dead and gone and we need to quit trying to resurect them.
While both these projects were long and very painful they actually both turned out pretty nice. The Park Inn is beautiful and the streetscape is unique.Central Park looks great too.When most of the buildings get new facades our downtown is going to be awesome.
as long as “Main Street Mason City is proud to accept these awards along with our community partners.”
how about they be just as proud to pay $53,000,000 of the cost to the people of Mason City?
I DID NOT THINK SO…………………….