And the winner is… Option C – Plants By a Stream!

You voted, and a clear winner emerged! The winning street painting design was submitted by Christina G.! Thank you to everyone who took the time to make your voice heard.

The winner was chosen through ranked choice voting. When a vote was submitted in the form, it was collected into a spreadsheet. To calculate the winner, the spreadsheet was uploaded to the website RCV123.org. There were 137 votes cast, and Option C received 100 first place rankings. Sometimes in ranked choice voting, a clear winner must be determined through multiple rounds of vote tabulations when one single option (or candidate) does not capture a majority of the votes. Since Option C received the most votes outright, there was only one round of result tabulations.

For more insight into the design, here is a statement from the artist:

“The inspiration for the street plaza design was motivated by the concepts of connection: the plaza is connecting the two green spaces; and it should be a place of connection between neighbors as well as an opportunity for people to connect with the natural environment. To represent these connections, we extended plants in garland form into the plaza space, allowing the greenways to reach toward each other. Choosing fir branches is a nod to the name Firland Parkway and serviceberry bunches represent abundance and resilience. The stream extends through the space as a continuation of the desire footpaths that already pass through the greenway, and stepping stones add playful interactive opportunities for neighbors as they pass through the plaza.”

Christina also designed Foster-Powell’s street painting on 75th & Center! You can find more of her work at her website: https://greatheartk9.com/art

A special thanks goes to all of you who submitted designs for the plaza. We are so excited to see this street painting come to life, and it will be extra special knowing that our neighborhood helped make it happen! There’s still plenty of work to be done to get this project to the finish line, so keep this page bookmarked for updates as we go.