Prescott panel approves Ken Lindley Park upgrades including digital signs, sculptures and restrooms

The Prescott Preservation Commission voted March 13 to approve a package of improvements at Ken Lindley Park, part of the Prescott Armory Historic District, that will add two new digital signs along Gurley Street, convert an existing scoreboard to digital and install a larger digital scoreboard, bronze sculptures, a 5-foot concrete walking path, a long safety wall with netting and new restroom facilities.

"It is the intent of these design criteria that the owners of the structures be encouraged to preserve and restore their structures in harmony with the original intent of the builder," Tammy DeWitt, community planner, told the commission as she laid out the general design criteria and said the applications are not intended to alter the site's historic architectural character. DeWitt said the proposed new illuminated…