Clute Park Event Center

Project represents Zakery Steele’s experience under preivous employment. This project was not completed by Sue Steele Landscape Architecture, PLLC.

The Clute Park Event Center is a park infrastructure and event space improvement project within historic Clute Park on the south shore of Seneca Lake. The project was supported by the Watkins Glen Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) planning study, a community planning process completed in 2018 that directed investment of $10 million in New York State funding to help provide new urban identity and leverage significant private investment portions of Watkins Glen.

The Event Center was identified as a signature project of the Watkins Glen DRI and included the multi-disciplinary design of a rear-round lakefront facility for events such as weddings, receptions, and banquets. The project also compliments the event facility with exterior public space enhancements that provide four season recreational opportunities, including a summer spray park facility that converts to an ice rink in the winter, a new bathhouse, lighting, walkways, trails, and landscape improvements. The project is funded by several grants from New York state, including those from Department of State, Local Waterfront Revitalization Program, Department of State, and the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

Mr. Steele served as a Senior Landscape Architect throughout the project and assisted the design and planning of the park exterior improvements. The center is currently under construction and is anticipated to open in summer 2021. Future phase planning of additional park recreational features such as playgrounds, basketball courts, and trail linkages were included as part of a long-range master plan.

Client
Schuyler County, New York

Services
Landscape Architecture

Project Team
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
Ballard King and Associates
CME Associates

Project completed under previous employment.