West End Square

A neighborhood park for the West End Historic District’s growing population and designed to be a testing ground for incorporating technology in a public space to support maintenance and operations

West End Square broke ground in January 2020 and opened to the public on March 26, 2021.

James Corner Field Operations, the landscape architect and design lead, developed a steel shade structure that wraps three sides of the park, referred to as the “Frame.” The Frame activates the street edge by creating a diversely programmed threshold between the Historic District’s sidewalks and the Square’s garden interior.

West End Square an outdoor workroom, porch swings, and a u-shaped steel trellis envisioned as a flexible armature for a plug-and-play approach to technologies that may be incorporated over time as the Square’s uses and needs evolve.