Planning Your Neighborhood Park

January 2024: The Bryant and Tretbaugh Park projects each have their own Let's Talk Page. Please refer to those specific project pages for current information on each project.

https://letstalk.bloomingtonmn.gov/bryantpark

https://letstalk.bloomingtonmn.gov/tretbaugh

On Friday, August 19, City staff from a variety of departments, consultants from Confluence, PARC commissioners and others gathered in the Black Box Theater at Bloomington Civic Plaza for a planning workshop dubbed Park-A-Palooza. Participants spent a full day brainstorming, analyzing, and sketching ideas for reimagining nine parks—Brookside, Bryant, Gene Kelly, Poplar Bridge, Running, Smith, Southwood, Sunrise, Tretbaugh. The work was guided by public input gathered here on Let’s Talk Bloomington and in-person at the parks during community conversations held in June.

The following nine parks have been identified for the first phase of planning and development (link to park webpage): Brookside, Bryant, Gene Kelly, Poplar Bridge, Running, Smith, Southwood, Sunrise, and Tretbaugh.