ASLA UTAH SEPTEMBER 2022 NEWSLETTER

UPCOMING EVENTS

Advocacy Site Visit: Millcreek Common Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at 4:00pm REGISTER HERE

ASLA UT 2022 Annual Awards Dinner Sponsored by BioGrass Friday October 28th, 6:00-8:30pm The Shop, 350 E 400 S, 3rd Floor, Salt Lake City Buy Tickets Here

LuckyDog Recreation - Lunch & Learn November 3rd, 11:30am ASLA UT Offices 280 S 400 W REGISTER HERE

Victor Stanley On-Demand LA CES™ Education Sessions:
SEE CLASS SCHEDULE & REGISTER HERE

ASLA National Conference on Landscape Architecture November 11-14, 2022, San Francisco, CA REGISTER HERE

ASLA Utah Advocacy Millcreek Commons Site Visit

Thomas Eddington, VP of Advocacy

As part of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) advocacy efforts to ensure our members and our elected officials continue to maintain a keen awareness of the landscape architecture profession and the many influential projects that have been created around the state, the Utah Chapter invites you to tour one of the area’s special gems: Millcreek Common on Thursday, October 18, 2022, at 4pm.

Millcreek Common was designed by EPG Design which is based in Midvale, UT. Millcreek Common is a community gathering locale that provides a beautiful setting with many recreational offerings. It is home Utah’s largest outdoor skating rink which is specially designed to magically transform from a retro-vibe summertime roller skating rink to a beautiful ice-skating rink in the winter. The site is further activated by special skating activities such as games, contests, and live music are held during the week, and every week they hold a Thursday Food Truck Rally, G.O.A.T Friday, and D.J. Skate night Saturdays.

We encourage our members to join us at this site tour to help us showcase this unique project to our local and state elected officials. The site tour will also include an open discussion about the landscape architecture profession, its benefits, and its contributions to our community. We expect the entire tour and discussion to take about an hour and a half.

Parking information: Millcreek Common plaza is in between Highland Drive and 1300 East on 3300 South. Look for the big construction crane. Other area landmarks include: Harmons Grocery, Crown Burger, Tres Hombres and Home Depot. Access parking via Chambers Avenue, which is just south of Crown Burger. You can also access parking via Woodland Avenue.

RSVP HERE

We look forward to seeing you at this event! Please RSVP by Friday, October 14th at 5pm MT.

ASLA Utah Parking Day Recap

Aaron Johnson, VP of Visibility & Public Affairs

ASLA Utah is proud to announce another success full Parking Day activity this year!!! One of the main highlights was working with the energetic and creative 3rd grade students at Calvin S. Smith Elementary school in Taylorsville. For those that don’t know, we partnered with Mrs. Meredith Harkers 3 rd grade class to design a mini park! They were excited from the minute we arrived! The students loved the idea of creating more green space in our cities paved in asphalt. When asked if they had a favorite park, every hand shot up with stories and experiences they had there. When asked if they had a favorite parking lot there were no hands and a lot of confused looks, ‘why would we have a favorite parking lot?!’. Given a paper with two parking spaces on it, they went to town on designing the best park this world has seen. Many had petting zoos, slides, fishing ponds, shade trees, dog parks, bird houses, and much more! They were excited to share their ideas with the class and hear the oooh’s and ahh’s from their fellow students.

This was a great experience for not only the students and Utah ASLA, but for all those who attended parking day. As part of our installation we showcased all 50 of their drawings and highlighted their ideas! There drawings were easily the most popular part of parking day, and we even had a few students show up with their parents to see their work displayed for all to see.

Involving the 3 rd graders was a unique, amazing and inspiring experience and one that we hope to do as often as possible. Utah ASLA was even reached out to by National ASLA to be mentioned in their recap of parking day nationwide!

Huge thanks to Progressive Plants for lending us some beautiful trees and shrubs for the day. Thanks to Landscape forms for donating the tables and chairs for the day, and of course, and massive thank you to SoHo Food Truck park for accommodating us this year! Thanks to everyone who makes this wonderful profession run and we look forward to seeing you at other events.

ASLA Utah Parking Day Recap

Tyler Smithson, VP of Membership & Member Services

This year's ASLA AZ + UT Awards collaboration featured numerous high-quality projects that were submitted from around Arizona in the categories of general design, residential design, unbuilt, analysis and planning, landmark, student collaborative, and community service. The Arizona USLA Awards program celebrates excellence by recognizing the firms, individuals, and agencies responsible for outstanding works of landscape architecture and environmental planning that promote an enhanced quality of life in Arizona and beyond. Additionally, a big thanks to August Bateman, Ladd Schiess, Melissa Fryer, and Survier Castillo served as the jurors from the ASLA UT Chapter.