The new swirls and swoops around Levy Park are starting to look more like those previously released renderings of the space’s total facelift, as a planned February 25th reopening date draws near. The Levy Park Conservancy is throwing an opening party that day, including art performances, workshops, gardening demos, and piano music (presumably from the moveable park piano.) The group sends along some photos of the increasingly colorful construction site, from the spiraling walking path both pictured and rendered above, to the repurposed double-decker bus that’ll eventually sit alongside the park’s main open greenspace to tend a beer garden. The bus previously made an appearance in this rendering of the lumpy triangular dog park:

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The main structure of the curvy pavilion is also in place, as is the giant hole in its roof:

The pavilion sits along the new road connecting Wakeforest and Eastside streets, just south of the One Grove Street office building (rendered here on the right):

The Avenue Grove residential midrise that bookends the park from the south is also looking more put together — that’s it on the left in both the rendering above and the panorama below:

Some of the playground features are also in place:

Here’s the setup for a water feature, with a shot of that winding elevated pathway in the background:

• Levy Park Grand Re-Opening [Levy Park Conservancy]
• Previously on Swamplot: Tiny Hills Now Rolling in Levy Park’s Triangular Dog Park in Upper Kirby; Storybook Views of Upper Kirby’s Levy Park Redo at Eastside and Richmond; A Look at Midway’s Mixed-Use Plans in Upper Kirby?; The Beginnings of a Mixed-Use District on Richmond?, The New Levy Office Park

Images: Levy Park Conservancy (photos), Office of James Burnett (renderings)