Cascades Park in Tallahassee continues to progress toward completion. What promises to be the iconic centerpiece of the park is the amphitheater that sits adjacent to the spot that serves as Florida's prime meridian. This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts that will showcase at least one photo including a shot of the amphitheater and at least one photo of progress elsewhere in the park.
Tonight -- the view of the amphitheater and the city scene to its rear:
It's clearly going to be beautiful and I can already imagine some of the performances that will take place there. July 4th might really be special in this spot.
Of course, Cascades Park already serves as a stormwater management area and proved to be of great benefit already. In late February we suffered through a period of record rainfall that would have previously left the Franklin Street area completely underwater. Now, no issues at all were encountered in that area. Although the picture below doesn't quite do it justice, Franklin Street's reconstruction is nearly complete and the stormwater now flows entirely below the street above and into Cascades Park:
That's Apalacheee Parkway, of course, overhead.
When it's all said and done, Tallahassee is going to have a pretty special park with an extremely unique Florida vista.
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