Courtesy of Daily Business Report: Monday, April 29, 2024
Sometime in early 2028, a 5.7-acre over-the-water park will be opened alongside the USS Midway Museum on the Downtown Embarcadero — a tribute to the San Diego region’s rich military history.
On its completion, Freedom Park will boast an array of features, including nature gardens, memorials and monuments, play elements, and concessionaires. Developed by the USS Midway Museum and the Port of San Diego, Freedom Park’s overall design will be handled by RICK, a San Diego company formerly called Rick Engineering Company.
RICK is the prime design consultant for the park and will be responsible for developing all civil engineering and landscape architecture. Sub-consultants involved on the engineering, landscape architecture team include BSE Engineering, Triton, Engineers, Ninyo & Moore, and Wimmer, Yamada & Caughey — all from San Diego, and Gallagher and Associates of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
“Visitors will enjoy the beautiful surroundings but have no idea about the complex engineering that made it all possible,” says Nick A. Dorner, RICK’s project manager for Freedom Park, responsible for the extensive coordination of the project.
“This is among California’s most structurally complex over-the-water parks,” Dorner said. “In a typical park, engineers have unlimited space below ground to position water, sewer, electrical, communications and storm drain systems. At Freedom Park, we have minimal space to contain all the infrastructure. Everything must fit together seamlessly.”
