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Toledo-based ProMedica extends its outdoor spaces to adjacent city park. Ohio-based healthcare system ProMedica’s approximately 1,000 employees are now working at a new corporate campus in the heart of downtown Toledo. Prior to the move, staff had worked in 25 buildings spread throughout the city and suburbs. The headquarters, open since September 2017, is located at a prime location on the Maumee River and adjacent to city-owned Promenade Park. This project was recognized as a 2020 Ohio Chapter ASLA Honor Award Winner. ProMedica worked with architecture firm HKS to create a headquarters that included the restoration of a 1896 Daniel Burnham-designed steam plant, a renovation of the 1981 Brutalist style Junction Building, and construction of a multi-level parking structure. The City of Toledo’s Promenade Park sits between the buildings. In 2013, the City worked with landscape architecture and urban planning firm MKSK to design the park; the firm then redesigned it when ProMedica became its client. Within the park an accessible walkway connects the parking structure at the park’s upper level to the steam plant at the lower riverfront and runs alongside a detention basin. Part of the park’s redesign would include a defined element to provide boundary between the walkway and the detention basin. MKSK proposed a bench, or series of benches, that would take advantage of the location’s views of the park and Maumee River. The firm had taken notice of a series of custom wood-slated benches that Landscape Forms’ design-focused business, Studio 431, had engineered and manufactured ...