“There’s a reason the city is located on the falls. The falls are really powerful. They’re beautiful and they really have a strong emotional response for people. I mean: you’re just drawn to them. They are what make a place. And that is why the native Americans were there; that’s why the settlers ended up there; that’s why people move from the sticks, from the little farms into the city; that’s why people move from the suburbs to downtown; that’s why people from other cities move to Minneapolis. People inherently want to be near the water. The water is the meaning of life, it’s the source, it’s the thing.”
Ken Smith, Principal, Ken Smith Landscape Architect
DESIGN TEAM
ken smith landscape architect
SHoP architects
green shield ecology
buro happold
ETM associates
langan engineering
coen + partners landscape architecture
SRF consulting, environmental planning and engineering
frank edgerton martin, landscape history
davis langdon, an AECOM company
dr. susan m. galatowitsch, university of minnesota
