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Green Stormwater Projects Advance in Wash. Officials in Kitsap County, Wash. are holding meetings to Museum Park Shrinks The new Miami Art Museum is on schedule for completion for the fall of 2013, while the new Miami Science Museum (MiaSci), which broke ground in February, eyes a completion date for the end of 2014. The ambitious plans to redevelop Bicentennial Park as Museum Park, however, have been scaled back to a promenade and bay walk. Still, both museums will have extensive landscaping. The Miami Herald reports the ambitious design plans of Cooper Robertson & Partners of New York City for Miami's Museum Park have been ratcheted back from a $68 million vision for a 20-acre green space with gardens, water sculpted mounds and a shallow pool to a basic $10 million plan to create a promenade from Biscayne Boulevard to Biscayne Bay and a bay walk. The city is currently considering five bids from contractors. The $220 million project to build the Miami Science Museum and the Miami Art Museum is still on tract. While the park will not be as lavish as planned, it will still have trees and open spaces. However, the museums will have extensive landscaping done by Miami's ArquitectonicaGeo. There will also be landscaping designed by James Corner Field Operations of New York City on the plaza between the two museums. Among the pricier park elements nixed is the underground parking garage and a restaurant. The biggest concern for city officials is that the Museum Park promenade will not be ready in time for the grand opening of the Miami Science Museum in early December 2013. The Surface and Stormwater Management division of Kitsap County, Wash. on Puget Sound is looking for sites to install rain gardens, bioswales and permeable pavements to better process pollutants from stormwater runoff. consider locations for stormwater retention projects in North Kitsap communities. The goal is healthier Puget Sound streams. Last year, the county focused on similar projects in Manchester, Kingston and Silverdale, leading to pervious concrete parking lots and rain gardens in Silverdale. Two rain gardens were installed in Suquamish earlier this year. The proposed green stormwater projects might be installed on public property, road rights-of-ways, or on private property. The county is offering free consultations to allow Seattle- area landscape contractors and hardscape installers with experience with permeable materials the opportunity to work on upcoming projects. For information about the Surface and Stormwater Management program visit www.kitsapgov.com/sswm 106 Landscape Architect and Specifier News Information Request # 670 Information Request # 569