Water Tower Park was a community exercise to master plan 37.75 acres recently purchased by the City of Adel to meet community parks and recreational needs. The goal of the master planning exercise was to gain an understanding of existing site challenges that will need to be addressed during the design and construction phases, and engage the community to understand the perception of the parks and recreational department, understand the layout of strategic amenities at this park, and produce tools to generate project momentum.The project scope included producing and coordinating a community survey to gain data related to public perception of existing parks and recreational amenities and generate feedback related to activity involvement and recreational needs. Following the survey, a concept workshop was held with a stakeholder team to discuss the existing property, the feedback from the survey, and Adel Parks and Recreation programs to whiteboard
layouts. A conceptual master plan was created utilizing boundary and topography information to meet the response from the survey and feedback from the workshop. McClure produced an opinion of probable cost broken into phases aligned with the master plan, as well as considering adjacent public improvements. Landscape renderings were generated to be used in funding and marketing exercises to bring the project to fruition.