VIA Centro Plaza

Centro Plaza is envisioned as more than just a transit stop. Programmable lighting throughout the Plaza, custom art and cultural amenities, and 58 newly planted local cedar elms transform Centro Plaza into a community space intended to become fully integrated into the city’s DNA. The 2+ acre site also features a system for capturing all storm water runoff in 20,000-gallon cisterns to be used for irrigating the trees, and a large photovoltaic panel array of 272 modules, situated atop the Plaza’s curved canopy to deliver 68kW of continuous energy to the property. The Plaza is a sustainable public asset that will encourage future private development in the surrounding district. (for Perkins Eastman, with Ford Powell Carson, Domingo Gonzalez lighting, Bender Wells Clark landscape, Bill Fitzgibbons light tower artist)