The Suwanee City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the master plan for the city’s newest park, Town Center West. Located on approximately 25-acres known as the DeLay Property, Town Center West will be situated behind the Suwanee library and PlayTown Suwanee on Suwanee Dam Road.
The park will feature a mixture of urban and rural environments, including a roughly 900-foot, elevated bridge for pedestrian and bicycle use, spanning the entire park and crossing an approximately one-acre water feature, as well as an open terrace plaza and lawn area at the peak of the park’s elevation that will include several small-scale micro-business sites serving park patrons.
The park will also include an extension of the existing Playtown Suwanee geared toward older children, and will include sandpit volleyball courts, and a public art piece. The roughly 15-acre wooded area along the existing Brushy Creek Greenway will remain undisturbed.
The biggest change will be the realignment of Main Street, which will shift around the park and exit onto Suwanee Dam Road at an existing traffic signal, improving the safety and traffic flow by allowing the median break on Suwanee Dam Road to be closed.
The anticipated cost from planning to construction is roughly $12 million; a timetable for construction has not been established.
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