Saturday, May 19, 2012
   
Text Size

Site Search powered by Ajax

Plans for larger Honoring All Veterans Memorial unveiled

havm

The teardrop shape of the Honoring All Veterans Memorial would be visible to airline passengers as they fly into
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Plans for a completed Honoring All Veterans Memorial in Veterans Park were presented to the Richfield City Council at a special work session Tuesday afternoon.

Recreation Services Director Jim Topitzhofer presented an architect's rendering of a completed site that would include six columns representing the armed forces service branches, 11 rows of granite tablets engraved with the names of deceased service members, lighting, a water fountain, a natural amphitheater for events and extensive landscaping around the site.

He asked the council, on behalf of the Honoring All Veterans Memorial board of directors, if it would consider loaning the group money to complete the project, which would be repaid as revenue was collected from the families of soliders, sailors and airmen for engraving their names on the tablets.

Topitzhofer also presented a basic plan for the completed site that would cost about $180,000 to complete and a more complete plan estimated to cost $454,800.

The city has already spent about $300,000 on the memorial site, Topitzhofer said.

 


facebookcomment

Recreation Brochure

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD the current Richfield Parks and Recreation brochure to find out more about recreation programming.

Login Form