CAP BASIN SPORTS COMPLEX WINS CRESCORDIA AWARD

October 19, 2006

On Friday, October 13th, the City of Scottsdale's CAP Basin Sports Complex was honored by Valley Forward during their 2006 Environmental Excellence Awards program. The project won the Crescordia Award in the Site Development & Landscape, Industrial & Public Works category.

EEC designed what was once a 70-acre barren, dusty parcel of land and a one-week-a-year parking lot during Scottsdale's FBR Open Golf Tournament into a lush, 10-field soccer/team sports complex and source of pride for the City of Scottsdale. As north Scottsdale has grown, this project greatly improved previously dusty conditions and blended with the surrounding natural environment while bringing the community recreational open space in grassy fields, play facilities, and walking paths.

The primary use for the CAP Basin Sports Complex is event parking for the FBR Open. The high volume of required event parking presented a challenge in the public park design process. Park features were laid out over the event parking grid pattern, then the grid was disguised and softened with curvilinear walks and landscaping that wouldn't interfere with parking approximately 7,000 cars. Trees and other plantings will grow around the perimeter of 670 paved parking spaces, leaving the fields available for FBR Open parking.

Since 1980, Valley Forward has selected winners of the Environmental Excellence Awards to recognize outstanding contributions to the physical environment of Valley communities.