The City is in the final stages of completing the Allen Park Cultural Landscape report.
Public Lands, Engineering, and the Planning Division have been working with consultant IO Landarch since 2020 to complete this document, which includes a comprehensive site history of Allen Park, analysis of existing conditions, analysis and evaluation of elements of the site that retain historic integrity, and treatment and management recommendations for historically and culturally sensitive site improvements in the future.
The “Site History” chapter has been available to the public for a few months, and Public Lands is now very excited to have released a final draft to the public, available on our website and at the link below.
The Cultural Landscape Report will provide Public Lands staff, including operations managers, planners, and groundskeepers recommendations for site care, maintenance and capital improvements that will preserve, and potentially even enhance, the historic integrity of the site.
In addition, if the City chooses to pursue Historic Landmarking of Allen Park and/or its features at the national or local level, the CLR provides recommendations and information needed to complete this process. The completion of this document is the first step and one of the guiding documents that will be utilized in the development of the Adaptive Reuse and Management Plan.