Community Spaces

JONESPLAN's involvement in community spaces is deeply rooted in our ability to carefully analyze complex projects and break them down into their essential elements. This involves revealing the essential infrastructure, creating accessible and enjoyable public areas, and building the unique features and landscapes that define these spaces. Our clients recognize that when they collaborate with JONESPLAN, they are gaining access to a team of skilled professionals with the expertise to create a cohesive solution. We can operate as a General Contractor, often joining projects during initial planning and executing a significant portion of the work, or as collaborative team members, contributing specialized insights to specific project aspects.

Our pride lies in a portfolio of community space projects that have earned esteemed recognition. A standout example is the Gathering Place of Tulsa, acknowledged on a national scale for its remarkable contribution as a beautifully designed outdoor area. Despite the monumental scope along the Arkansas River, our extensive experience in outdoor construction positioned us perfectly to manage the installation of seating, embankments, architectural elements, and distinctive stonework. Our expertise extended to wetlands, beaches, and other key features. Since 2018, our ongoing involvement with the Gathering Place underscores our role as a dependable resource for the park's evolving needs.

A significant accomplishment for JONESPLAN is exemplified by our work on the four main gardens at the Tulsa Botanic Garden. Starting around 2015, our collaboration with lead designer Tres Fromme and local architects Howell & Vancuren (now Wallace Design Collective) marked the inception of planning for the initial major garden, the Floral Terraces. Following extensive teamwork, where we provided recommendations covering various aspects such as planting beds and drainage, we assumed the role of Construction Manager and Constructor, self-executing a substantial portion of the project. After the success of this garden, we were entrusted with the subsequent project, the Children’s Discovery Garden, contributing from concept to completion. More recently, in partnership with Manhattan Construction, we completed the third and fourth gardens, the Lotus Pool and Liberty Garden, in 2023. Our achievements at the Tulsa Botanic Garden underscore our commitment to excellence across the project's entire lifecycle.

Projects of Note

  • Tulsa Botanic Garden

    Between 2015 and 2023, JONESPLAN built all four major gardens: Floral Terraces, Children's Discovery Garden, Lotus Pool and Liberty Garden. The award-winning Floral Terraces is 3 formal acres of landscaped terraces with 8,000 permanent plants, cast stone and cast concrete water channels, winding concrete pathways, site-sourced native stone walls and internally lit glass pavilions. The Children's Discovery Garden, also award-winning, is two acres of a fantastical “wonderland” garden and includes the “Stream Valley” which begins as water flowing through streams and ponds from the mouth of the “Spring Giant,” a 15-foot hand-carved concrete creature. The Lotus Pool is an aquatic garden adorned with floating gardens, water lily and lotus shelves, an upper pond where water flows over a large riffle into the lotus pool below, and three stone wall overlooks for additional viewpoints of the pool. The Liberty Garden is a reshaped peninsula that extends into the middle of the botanic garden’s central lake, becoming a major focal point and a stunning outdoor area for events.

  • Gathering Place

    JONESPLAN’s primary focus at award-winning Gathering Place was to install oversized native stones throughout the massive park. The installed stones are now landscape walls for bench seating, the jagged hillside for Slide Vale, the spiral walkway at Chapman Adventure Playground, boulders at Water Mountain, bridge supports, giant rocks at Willow Beach, and embankment slabs at Peggy’s Pond. JONESPLAN also assisted with the enormous landscape scope, including wetland mitigation, temporary irrigation, beach sand installation, meadow plantings, mulching, fertilizing, flood repair and maintenance.

  • Honor Heights Butterfly Papilion

    JONESPLAN added a turf-grass formal event lawn, a demonstration garden with raised block planters, a formal fountain, and a butterfly papilion to Muskogee's Honor Heights Park. The papilion is constructed of a double height timber framed core with a translucent polygal roof and walls and cobblestone pavers. The wings of the enclosure are a greenhouse structure covered in netting, allowing for free and safe movement of butterflies throughout the space and around visitors. Also added are a shade structure, informational kiosks, decomposed granite and concrete pathways, site furnishings, steel arbors, lighting and a full-coverage irrigation system.

  • Tower Center at Unity Square

    For this award-winning project, JONESPLAN developed a control estimate and made recommendations for a complete remodel of the dilapidated space between Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower and the Bartlesville Community Center. Under JONESPLAN’s role as construction manager, Silas Street and an unsightly parking lot were removed, utilities were replaced, an existing fountain was repaired, an iconic 1960s pop art sculpture was relocated, and the two-acre space was transformed into an urban green space with large green spaces, a dry creek and native plantings. An oversized rock outcropping and large stone benches face a new concrete stage and steel canopy complete with sound and lighting and new bathroom facilities.

  • 12&12 Courtyard

    JONESPLAN fully demolished and remodeled the unused and dilapidated courtyard at the addiction recovery center. Large tree stumps and an existing concrete pool were removed through a narrow corridor through the building and the drainage and irrigation systems were fully replaced. Community-building amenities were added back to the space, including a sport-court, a central artificial turf lawn, a ceremonial bell, raised planting beds and shaded eating areas. Colored concrete sidewalks, decomposed granite paths and powder-coated steel covered walkways improve circulation throughout the space, and concrete seat walls were added. The award-winning courtyard is now a vital part of 12&12’s therapy programs.