CLH was part of the design team to envision the future of the Garner Town Hall Campus, which included the renovation and expansion of existing municipal facilities, including a town hall, police station, and library. A number of alternative solutions were created, which emphasized the long-term goals of the Town’s Comprehensive Plan, while streamlining circulation and offering a more visible and open presence to the public. The police station and town hall projects were completed in 2017.

CLH is providing landscape architecture and civil engineering services on the Town of Wake Forest E. Carroll Joyner Park Community Center project.  This project is for a new community facility within the Town of Wake Forest Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Resources system, to be located within the existing E. Carroll Joyner Park.

Carroll Joyner Park was a working farm until the 1990’s. Purchased by the Town of Wake Forest in 2003, the 117-acre park maintains the pastoral feel of the early farming days with meadows, rolling hills, trails, pecan grove, farm pond and original farm structures. Officially opened in 2009, the park offers a wide variety of passive and active activities, including three miles of looped paved trails for walking, bicycling or running, stone walls, a lawn amphitheater and several gardens. This project is Phase 2 of the three-part master plan and will include the design of a community center, a canopy over the existing amphitheater stage, a natural play area, additional parking, educational stormwater control measures, and connections to the existing trail network.

CLH provided civil engineering and landscape architecture design services for a new regional library on a challenging 9.24 acre wooded site in north Raleigh.  The site consisted of steep topography and is within the City of Raleigh’s Urban Watershed Protection Overlay District.  This district requires 40% of the site’s vegetation to either be preserved or replanted.  The new library facility and the entry plaza is positioned along the ridge of the site and 124 parking spaces accommodate the parking needs for this library.  To meet the City of Raleigh’s stormwater requirements, two sodded bio-retention areas were proposed along the west side of the property, which is the low point of the site.  Because of the excessive terrain, a large retaining wall was designed adjacent to the parking areas to allow for reasonable slope along the parking lots for ease of access to the building.  Services included concept plan, site layout, clearing and grading, utilities, stormwater best management practices (bio-retention areas), planting design and construction observation.

CLH provided both civil engineering and landscape architecture for this new Town Hall Complex within the downtown historic district of Wake Forest, NC. The focal point of the Town Hall building is the rotunda that serves as the main entry to the building. The design of the large plaza directs pedestrians to this building entry. In the center of the plaza are large curved steps which create an amphitheater area for Town Hall employees and pedestrians to enjoy. In addition to the Town Hall construction, this project also included the design and construction of Taylor Street, which expands the Town of Wake Forest’s urban downtown grid. Taylor Street allows access not only to the Town Hall campus, but also to the existing Miller Park adjacent to the campus.

CLH assisted the Town of Apex with the design of the Town’s Service Memorial honoring the victims of 9/11, fire, police, EMS personnel, and veterans.  The Town of Apex received a six-inch metal cube recovered from the South Tower of the World Trade Center.  The design included a granite monument which will hold the metal beam, engraved brick bands radiating out from the center of the monument, and brick seat walls surrounding a 10-foot tall town clock.  In addition, all funding for the Service Memorial has been achieved through private donations, mostly Apex residents.

CLH provided civil engineering and landscape architecture services for a new 20,000 SF Library and Cultural Arts Center facility on a 1.2 acre site. The site was designed to blend in with the existing government complex in keeping with the downtown historic district.  Services included joint use negotiations, concept plan, site layout and grading, utilities, stormwater BMPs (bio-retention areas), planting design, and construction observation.