Rooftop Park Coming to Central Florida

AMDC International is obsessed with downtown St Cloud.

The company, the one redeveloping a historic 1910 St Cloud hotel into condos, renovating a second historic St Cloud hotel and building a St Cloud location of the Qatar-based coffee shop Luminous, will now also be designing a rooftop park on top of a parking garage for downtown St Cloud to go along with an up-to-10-story tower according to Growthspotter.

This architectural feature is a rare sight for Central Florida. We've seen pool-topped condos and bar-topped event centers. A rooftop park is different. According to Wikipedia, "Besides the decorative benefit, roof plantings may provide food, temperature control, hydrological benefits, architectural enhancement, habitats or corridors for wildlife, recreational opportunities, and in large scale it may even have ecological benefits.

A rooftop park creates public gathering opportunities and moments of respite in dense urban areas. It's got a sidewalk system, a mix of textures like grass and gravel, shade trees, grass and ground covers and divided areas for a variety of uses.  

This is the rendering of the rooftop park given to the City of St Cloud by AMDC International. 


Below are 6 examples of other rooftop parks around the world. Perhaps this St Cloud project will inspire other developers to add the feature to their projects in the future. 






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