What’s the Deal With Republic Square?
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If you’re spending any quality time downtown these days, you might have noticed Republic Square is looking a little out of the ordinary — fences now surround the perimeter of the park’s central “great lawn,” which now looks more like a great big field of dirt, with folks in hard hats mucking around in skid steers and whatnot.
So what’s the deal with Republic Square? You could figure this out very easily by checking the park’s social media, but just in case you missed it we thought we’d let you know the great lawn is closed through August 5 for a major replanting and restoration project, great timing since the grass has recently looked a little patchy — people downtown really like using this park, who could have guessed?
But if you piece through the latest social media posts of landscape architecture firm Nudge Design, working on the project alongside Clean Scapes Landscaping, you’ll see there’s a bit more to this work than just new grass — it appears the refresh of the lawn also includes a few landscaping additions to the grove of oaks at the northeast corner of the square, providing a new shaded space opposite the site’s more prominent grove of “Auction Oaks.”