Ribbon Cut on Printers Park in the South Bronx

Sustainable design elements are incorporated throughout the park design. Water from the spray shower is funneled back into the surrounding planting beds and there was an extensive use of recycled materials including 90% recycled rubber, asphalt block made of 94% post-industrial recycled materials, granite block recycled from remains of the West Side Highway and benches composed of partially recycled metal and domestic hardwood (white oak). Tree species were selected based on their high capacity to absorb stormwater and spray shower runoff, and include dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), golden weeping willow (Salix alba ‘Niobe’) and serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.). The park was designed in-house by Stephen Koren, with Robert Winstead as Resident Engineer and Dell-Tech Enterprises, Inc. as the Contractor.