N.C. Veterans Freedom Park
Chooses Sasaki Associates to Design Park

Released on = October 24, 2005, 6:16 am

Press Release Author = Dick Ladd

Industry = Small Business

Press Release Summary = The North Carolina Veterans Freedom Park Foundation announced today it has hired Sasaki Associates, Inc., to provide full design services for the new 11-acre park centrally located in the heart of North Carolina.

Press Release Body = FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Dick Ladd
October 24, 2005 (919) 467-8414

N.C. Veterans Freedom Park
Chooses Sasaki Associates to Design Park

[CARY, NC] – The North Carolina Veterans Freedom Park Foundation announced today it has hired Sasaki Associates, Inc., to provide full design services for the new 11-acre park centrally located in the heart of North Carolina. When complete, the park will be a patriotic theme-based community center including multimedia-based memoirs of veterans and public artwork designed to symbolize the value of freedom and to honor the hundreds of thousands of military veterans throughout North Carolina and millions more across the nation.
Initial plans feature an educational/exhibit facility, walking trails, amphitheater, and a ceremonial plaza. Sasaki Associates will round out the design with services including landscape architecture, architecture, interior design, planning, civil engineering, and urban design.“Working with Sasaki Associates ensures that the Veterans Freedom Park will be the showcase that it truly deserves to be,” said Dick Ladd, chairperson of the North Carolina Veterans Freedom Park Foundation. “Their ability to make meaningful connections through design will make a recognizable difference on this project
dedicated to our country’s veterans.”

About Sasaki Associates
Sasaki Associates provides interdisciplinary planning and design services including planning, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design, transportation planning, civil engineering, and graphic design. The firm, established in 1953, has offices in Boston and San Francisco and has worked throughout the United States and abroad on such projects as the National Arboretum in Washington D.C, the Cincinnati Riverfront Park in Ohio, and the Addison Circle Park in Addison, Texas.

About the North Carolina Veterans Freedom Park Foundation
The North Carolina Veterans Freedom Park Foundation is a nonprofit corporation that is a community project led largely by veteran volunteers and representatives from the American Legion. The park is located adjacent to I-40 in Cary, near Raleigh. For more information visit www.veteransfreedompark.org, call Dick Ladd 919-467-8414
or email dickladd@bellsouth.net.
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CONTACT: Dick Ladd

(919) 467-8414