Project Timeline

What we’ve achieved and where we’re headed

The Druid Lake Park Landscape design is the result of five years of planning, outreach, and collaboration with surrounding communities. Significant efforts have focused on early activation of the lakeshore, even as additional design and construction phases unfold. Long-term planning, community engagement, and lakeside programming will continue hand in hand, shaping the park’s evolving future.

Past Events

November 24, 2024 6pm - 8pm

This meeting will kick-off the official community engagement portion of the Master Planning Process for Greenville. Our team will introduce themselves, share their goals and thinking behind the process, and discuss some of the ideas they hope to see in the park.

You'll have the opportunity to ask them questions, see draft models and maps, and volunteer to get involved.

For those unable to attend in person, the event will be live-streamed via the Youtube link above. Virtual participants will also be able to ask questions via the online platform.

Meeting #3

November 20, 2021

Attendance: 43 attendees

Format: Microsoft Teams

Meeting Overview:

Community Engagement Meeting #3 allowed the design team to share the project timeline, guiding principles, and show how feedback from earlier meetings shaped programming, circulation, and design of the Druid Lake Vision Plan. The team also presented potential initial phases and highlighted the project’s multi-phased approach. Attendees were encouraged to complete a final survey on implementation priorities. The survey was open for two weeks, promoted online, and shared with all registered participants. A total of 84 surveys were completed.

Meeting #2

June 3, 2021

Attendance:

Virtual: 103 attendees

In-person: 28 attendees

Format: Microsoft Teams & In-person Open House

Meeting Overview:

Community Engagement Meeting #2, held virtually and in-person, introduced the Druid Lake Vision Plan, project principles, and three design frameworks. Attendees reviewed Meeting #1 feedback and completed Community Survey #2, ranking programming, features, and circulation, and sharing input on reestablishing lake facilities. At the in-person event, the design team presented boards, answered questions, and gathered additional feedback. A total of 125 surveys were completed, guiding the ongoing planning process with input from both meeting formats.

Meeting #1

April 14, 2021

Attendance: 157 attendees

Format: Microsoft Teams

Meeting Overview:

Community Engagement Meeting #1 introduced the design team, shared project goals, and presented site history and park precedents. The meeting utilized breakout groups using virtual pinup boards, where participants shared memories, current use feedback, and ranked future programming ideas. These questions were also available in Community Survey #1. A total of 226 surveys were completed. All feedback from the boards and surveys was collected and synthesized to inform the project’s next steps.