Creating the Future in an Historic Environment

Lakeside is the Prospect Park Alliance’s ambitious new initiative to renovate 26 acres in the Park’s southeast quadrant — relocating and replacing the aging Wollman Rink with the Lakeside Center, a year-round destination for recreation, fun and fitness within a beautifully restored natural environment.  Designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, the Lakeside Center, with its two adjacent skating rinks, will bring 21st century architecture into a landmark 19th century park. 

Lakeside will provide Park visitors with: a restored environment and more green space; an area rebuilt as a place for community; Williams and Tsien’s bold 21st-century green design; new recreational opportunities for fun and fitness in every season; and expanded educational facilities, offering a natural classroom with better access to the lake shore.

Pending funding, construction on Lakeside is expected to begin in 2009 and be completed by late 2011. If you are interested in supporting Lakeside at Prospect Park, please contact Caledonia Kearns at (718) 965-8985 or via email.