Fort St. John Centennial Park

IBI Group is providing the City of Fort St. John with an integrated design approach for this exciting project. With cross-disciplinary experts involved from across the firm since project inception, the core design team is based in IBI’s Calgary office. IBI completed the stakeholder engagement and master planning phases of the project in 2017 and is currently supervising the construction with completion scheduled for August, 2020.

We worked with the City of Fort St. John and local therapists in selecting the most appropriate inclusive play equipment for the new playground. Key design elements include:

• New amenities including two new play areas – one for inclusive play and the other a parkour playground for older children
• Enhanced park lighting
• Improvements to existing park infrastructure

The design also incorporates an entrance plaza from 100th street, a permanent events stage/band shell, a formal garden, and additional pathways for better connectivity. Embracing the importance of Fort St. John being a winter city, IBI’s lighting design concept around the park and within the bandshell’s ceiling and screen, confirms the importance of creating colourful, vibrant and safe lighting within the public realm, especially in a northern Canadian city.