Landmarks

JONESPLAN has been honored to engage in projects of profound importance to the community and the broader public, due to their cultural significance. Our renown for meticulous construction, extensive portfolio, and a deeply esteemed teamwork ethos, combined with the relationships cultivated within our communities, have culminated in numerous ventures that demand not only a skillful team but an understanding of the cultural import of the undertaking itself.

Among our endeavors, we proudly highlight the landscape development at John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma — a site commemorated as a National Literary Landmark. This park serves as a memorial to the tragic Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. JONESPLAN was also a team member who helped create Pathway to Hope, an initiative that reunites segments of the Greenwood District severed during the displacement of citizens and enterprises in Black Wall Street. These projects transcend mere visual allure and the practical utility of urban spaces; they carry profound meaning. Our association with their realization is a source of great pride.

Our extensive experience in outdoor construction has provided us with the opportunity to collaborate on the construction, relocation, and enhancement of both new and pre-existing artistic sculptures. For instance, at a groundbreaking BMX Headquarters, our collaboration with a sculptor enabled the materialization of an ambitious and uniquely shaped concrete installation. We conceptualized its complicated construction, managed its intricate engineering, and executed the project impeccably, resulting in an award-winning installation. Similarly, we reimagined a conventional traffic island into a sculptural grassland, graced by a mother and her children journeying to the Indian Health Care Resource Center — a tribute to Indigenous heritage.

Apart from these innovative sculptures, JONESPLAN has partnered with local municipalities, private sculpture proprietors, and artists themselves to craft fresh settings and exhibitions for existing art pieces. Our clientele places faith in our ability to honor their significant works with precision and sensitivity. They've entrusted us to establish new foundations, amplify them with innovative landscaping and lighting, and integrate commemorative signage and amenities.

Every iconic project is approached with profound respect for its significance and cultural resonance. Our role encompasses not just installation and embellishment, but a commitment to realizing a space that creates an enduring impression. Through collaborative ingenuity, we forge spaces that stand as testaments to cultural heritage.

Projects of Note

  • John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park

    John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park was built in 2009 in Tulsa’s Greenwood District to memorialize the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and to tell the history of African Americans in building Oklahoma. JONESPLAN'S scope of the Designated National Literary Landmark project included landscape and irrigation with superior design by Tulsa landscape architect, R.L. Shears. The formal landscape includes a memorial walk that winds through a hedgerow labyrinth to the Hope Plaza which features bronze pictorials from the race riot and a 25-foot tall Tower of Reconciliation. The landscape also includes vibrant color-changing deciduous trees, thick vines clinging to steel arbors, various native plantings, plentiful evergreens and a large sodded lawn.

  • Pathway to Hope

    The Pathway to Hope tells the history of the Greenwood area and was built in preparation of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. It provides a direct walking route between John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park and other sites in the core of the Greenwood District, and tells the history of the Greenwood area. JONESPLAN's scope, working under Crossland Construction as construction manager, was to install irrigation, drainage, planting soil, decomposed granite mulch, plantings and trees.

  • BMX Headquarters

    Tulsa Art Fellow Shane Darwent asked JONESPLAN to help strategize on how to build and install the sculpture he envisioned for the new BMX Headquarters. The award-winning sculpture consisted of five vertical concrete columns resembling bike track contours ranging between 12- and 24-feet in height and 3 individual concrete stair sets. The process to build the columns, developed and completed by JONESPLAN, required mock-ups, specialized forming, a vast network of hand-bent rebar, self-consolidating concrete, and an atypical vertical concrete pour to allow for a brick pattern relief on opposite faces and a waved third face.

  • Medicine Wheel Park

    JONESPLAN transformed a typical triangle median into a natural landscape setting for a bronze art installation next to Indian Healthcare Resource Center's headquarters. A flagstone gathering area with concrete benches was installed along a colored concrete pedestrian pathway crossing through the median. Over 500 fountain grasses were planted in six inches of select soil and a drip irrigation system and mulch were installed around the plants. JONESPLAN worked alongside Cemrock Landscape to build an elevated concrete wall that acts as the structural pedestal for a bronze sculpture scene, “Games Along the Way.” Low volt lighting was cast into the walkway and rock outcropping to illuminate the path and to cast light on the sculptures. The median is now an artistic representation of a mother and her children on their way through a prairie to visit a healer.

  • Energy in Motion

    As a complement to I-44 corridor beautification work, JONESPLAN installed Rico Eastman’s oversized “Energy in Motion” sculpture in a new dedicated location near the Riverside Drive exit in Tulsa. The project included a landscaped "plinth" for the sculpture made of a decomposed granite and plantings in a concrete-curbed bed with special spotlighting.