GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Frederik Meijer Gardens revealed its major expansion plans which includes a new welcome and learning center and expanded amphitheater.
The $115 million project titled, Welcoming the World: Honoring a Legacy of Love, was announced on Thursday.
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park said the project will allow them to expand its annual horticulture exhibitions, provide more galleries for sculpture exhibitions, add more room for guests to move about, host more events and improve parking among other things.
“For last two years 750,000 people each year have come out to visit Meijer Gardens. When the current entryway was built, we were getting 200,000 people coming in, so we need to grow,” said President and CEO David Hooker.
The project includes the following:
- Expanded and upgraded amphitheater
- New 60,000 square foot, LEED certified welcome center
- New 20,000 square foot, LEED certified Covenant Learning Center
- New Peter C. and Emajean Cook Transportation Center
- New sculpture garden entry plaza
- Expanded BISSELL, Inc. scenic corridor
- New outdoor picnic pavilion
- New Padnos families rooftop sculpture garden
- Expanded and accessible parking and urban gardens