Meadowbrook Park Activity Center

The 88-acre Meadowbrook Park is part of a larger redevelopment effort transforming a former golf course and country club into a vibrant mixed-use community. The lawn includes a variety of active and passive recreational amenities, including native landscaping, trails, accessible play structures, picnic shelters and large pavilion. The park is crowned by a new 12,000 square foot activity center clad in limestone, cedar and weathering-steel on the footprint of the original golf course clubhouse. 

To pay homage to the history of the site, the interior was designed to subtly celebrate the love of golf.

Features include a 300-person event space, catering kitchen, multi-purpose classroom, early childhood development center and administrative offices.

It was important to the overall park masterplan to maintain the topography and natural aesthetic of the former golf course. Parking locations were upgraded and the pavilion, together with the activity center, form a new threshold into the park, creating a strong sense of arrival and dramatic statement of place.

Additional architectural elements designed by SFS include the Grand Pavilion, a shelter with seating for 96 guests and a natural limestone-clad fireplace, three picnic shelters and a restroom building. The pavilion and picnic shelters feature natural cedar decking and standing-seam metal roofing with sloping rooflines and playful canted columns that suggest folding topography and the stalks of native prairie grass bending in the breeze.