 Phinley Park is Columbia's primary urban park, which consists of 17 and a half acres in the heart of downtown Columbia. Originally designated as Sydney Park in 1859, the park fell into disrepair after the Civil War and was not used again as a public park until it reopened in 1990 and later became Phinley Park. Robert Marvin, who was one of the South Carolina most prominent landscape architects, designed the park to include a scenic fountain and waterfall, man-made pond, amphitheater stage, open lawn area, playground and cafe building. Recent modifications to the original plan include the addition of the Vista Greenway in 2017 and a playground area in 2018. The Vista Greenway created a connection for the neighborhoods of North Columbia to Phinley Park and the Vista District. Vista Greenway will continue to expand connecting Phinley Park with the river and the developing Bull Street District in the near future. The redesign of Phinley Park respects the original plan by landscape architect Robert Marvin while also incorporating community-driven goals in revitalization. To incorporate these goals, the new Phinley Park will provide updated links to each destination, which will improve circulation and engage users through a series of diverse interconnected spaces while increasing accessibility, safety and visibility throughout the park. Activation will be key in renewing daily interest for outdoor leisure, exercise and community events as the park will have a large variety of consistent programs. Revitalization efforts will include retaining the icon at Spiral Fountain, cascading falls and waterfall to a newly renovated central pond, which will then flow into an amenity stream. The new water features will be naturalized with gently sloping lateral shelves to promote visitor safety and will incorporate sustainable techniques to capture and treat stormwater. New supporting facilities and amenities include an event stage in line, strolling gardens, restrooms, shade shelters, spray play, destination playground, enhanced lighting solutions, public art, office space for hospitality and park rangers, multiple walkways, accessible upgrades, parking modifications and a plaza overlook that captures the vistas of downtown Columbia. Plans for Phinley Park are currently out to bed and we are projecting for a groundbreaking in July. Construction is expected to take approximately 18 months. So we're so excited about the renovations at Phinley Park because this has been a discussion for nearly seven years. We're very excited about the opportunity that we have moving forward, a great design done internally by one of our own here at the City of Columbia, but taking really what they've listened to and heard from our community over the last seven years. Being a center of focal point, the center of our community, the crown jewel with our increased growth of people living downtown and having a park that will be activated, supported with park rangers and a maintenance groove, water features, having a brand new amphitheater where we can continue those fun events from summertime movies to concerts to plays but playgrounds and opportunities for people to be engaged in a place they can come, outdoor exercise, et cetera. All happening in our downtown, the center of our beautiful, beautiful capital city. So we're very excited about what's happening and just think in the next few months you'll start to see bulldozers. People starting to reshape Phinley Park. So follow us, watch us, take a look, see what's happening. I think you're going to be surprised.