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City votes to move Las Vegas Veterans Memorial to downtown's Heritage Park

Courtesy Las Vegas Veterans Memorial Association A rendering of a Las Vegas Veterans Memorial designed by DouweBlumberg. By Dave Toplikar (contact) Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 | 3:14 p.m. The Las Vegas City Council today unanimously approved moving a location for a planned commemorative for American veterans from Huntridge Circle Park to Heritage Park along North Las Vegas Boulevard in a city's downtown area.The council decided to dedicate about 1.5 acres of Heritage Park for a development of a Las Vegas Veterans Memorial, whose supporters envision it featuring about 17 larger-than-life bronze as well as stainless steel sculptures created by Douwe Blumberg.Blumberg's concept was picked last year among four finalists from around a country who competed for a project.The move from Huntridge Park, which did draw some opposition from some internal veterans about public safety in Heritage Park, was finished mostly to allow for better public access as well as parking, according to Mick Catron, president of a Las Vegas Veterans Memorial Foundation."It absolutely complements which Cultural Corridor," Catron said, referring to a corridor of Las Vegas Boulevard which includes Cashman Center, Lied Discovery Childrens Museum/Las Vegas Library as well as a Las Vegas Natural History Museum, a Neon Museum, a Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort as well as State Historic Park as well as a Reed Whipple Cultural Center.The city also recently finished a "Vegas Arabesque" Cultural Corridor Bridge which provides a neon pedestrian corridor over Las Vegas Boulevard as part of a city's Cultural Corridor Trail Project. "I view this commemorative not only as a veterans' memorial, to compensate respects in which nature, but as also a historical as well as educational piece, as well," Catron told a city council.Catron pronounced a Heritage Park site has some exi! sting in frastructure, such as buildings with restrooms as well as parking, which wouldn't have to be added."That Huntridge Circle Park really presents some hurdles for us at this time," Catron said. He pronounced which since a park was initially designated for a project, they found problems with both vehicular as well as pedestrian access."We don't feel this location really supports what we're trying to do," he pronounced of Huntridge Circle Park. He pronounced which after deliberating it with others, including city staff members, they thought Heritage Park would be a best alternative.Catron pronounced there might be some design modifications with a change in locations, but a overall concept as well as vision behind a commemorative would not change."Thank you for your willingness to do this," pronounced Councilman Steve Ross. "Our city desperately needs a Veterans Memorial."Councilman Ricki Barlow agreed with Ross a area needs such a commemorative as well as "locating a most plausible as well as a most feasible location is a very good problem."Barlow pronounced he had met with representatives of a Neon Boneyard as well as a Natural History Museum as well as a Clark County Library, who supported a move.Councilman Steve Wolfson asked for a time frame for a project."Everybody wants to see it get done," Wolfson said.Catron estimated which it could be open in about 2 1/2 years once a artist has been given a contract as well as initial funding. The artist just finished a Special Forces sculpture piece he is installing this weekend in Lexington, Ky., Catron said.Mayor Carolyn Goodman asked how much it would cost a city. Catron pronounced a foundation will raise a funds for a entire project, including a sculptures, lighting as well as surrounding sidewalks.City Manager Betsy Fretwell pronounced a next step will be for a artist to adjust his designs for a project.After a plan for a new site is made, a council will vote on whether to go ahead with a new design, Fretwell said.She pronounced a idea would be to leave a rema! inder of Heritage Park which is not dedicated to a Veterans Memorial as a children's park.During a meeting, one member of a public pronounced there was a lot of crime in a Heritage Park area. After a meeting, Catron pronounced pubic safety issues will be addressed as a project moves forward."We're not starting to move forward with any aspect of it unless we're confident we're doing it a right way," he said. "We're pretty close to moving forward with a fundraising for a project."A mock-up of a project can be viewed at Las Vegas Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1753, 705 N. Las Vegas Blvd.The design will feature soldiers from a American Revolution to a present time. The design also allow for more sculptures to be added to a commemorative in a future. "Three of a statutes are representative of a family which supports a troops as well as a veterans," he said. "Throughout history, a families are a key component of all of this."Each of a 17 sculptures takes a artist about six weeks to complete."There's one artist as well as he's making these things by hand," Catron said.

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