As progress continues at North Carolina Veteran’s Park, engineers have a clearer vision of some of its features.
“We’re going to have some walking paths,” Jason Miles, project engineer of Veteran’s Park, told WRAL. “One of them is going to be sort of a sinuous walking path, the other is going to be more of a straight alignment on opposite sides of the site with some plazas for seating areas and sort of peaceful reflections if you will.”
The second phase of the project, located near the Airborne & Special Operations Museum, is ready to be started. Phase II will complement the original phase of the park.
When it is completed, the park will offer tranquil water features and powerful words about military service as tributes to those who have served.
The site fell victim to Hurricane Matthew, which flooded the area in 2006, and Miles said he’s aware that might happen again, but he hopes such future problems will be easy to deal with.
“That’s why it’s kind of a flat park setting,” Miles said. “If there is some sort of flood like we experienced back then. Easy to clean up and back in business.”
