Landscape Management, April 2012
PROJECTPORTFOLIO A SCRAPBOOK OF DESIGN BUILD OVERHAULS THE MISSION Provide beautiful meditative and functional outdoor spaces to help a community center better serve its members LANDSCAPEMANAGEMENT NET APRIL 2012 34 B l ng C ty 1 2 PHOTOS COURTESY SALVATION ARMY RAY AND JOAN KROC CORPS COMMUNITY CENTER As one of nearly 100 subcontractors on this 33 million project the DeSantis Landscape team was continually faced with coordination scheduling and logistics challenges But as President Dean DeSantis notes We are proud to say that we have become the general contractors landscape contractor of choice based on our performance on this unique project The 10 acre landscape which surrounds a 92000 sq ft LEED Silver certi ed multifunctional community center was completed in two phases over a period of approximately a year The project involved the procurement and installation of nearly 35000 plants and trees The rst phase included the irrigation bioswale construction and planting and large lawn areas around the perimeter DeSantis says The second phase included the entry water feature prayer garden and water feature amphitheater entry pavers turtle back stone feature and swale and the planting and irrigation around the exterior of the building The entry water feature consists of four boulders each weighing between 25 and 40 tons They were hand selected by DeSantis and landscape architect Christopher Freshley from a mountainside in the Columbia River Gorge A stone artist was then brought in to bore and cut the stones before they were loaded and trucked to the project site DeSantis credits three suppliers in particular who helped his team signi cantly with this project Hunter Industries John Deere Landscapes and the Andrusko Group
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