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Paralympian Visits Playground in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
Posted: Nov 30
The joy we find as kids on the playground is something former Team USA Paralympian Jill Moore says she missed out on as a kid. <p> "I didn't go to playgrounds growing up," Moore shared. "They were never going to be the spaces that showed some of the best things about me."
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St. Paul City Council Approves Unique Inclusive Playground
Posted: Oct 31
The St. Paul, Minnesota City Council just approved a multi-million dollar redevelopment project near Allianz Field. <p> The first part of it includes a playground that focuses on including everyone in playtime. It will be St. Paul's largest inclusive playground with more than 25 different types of activities. <p> Longtime manufacturer Landscape Structures is partnering with Flagship Recreation to create the playground meant for all abilities.
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St. Paul's Go-To Playground Designers Take a Big Cue from the Disabled
Posted: Oct 31
Jill Moore’s wheelchair doesn’t prevent her from exploring parks, playgrounds and other public spaces. In fact, as an inclusive play specialist for Minnesota-based playground designer Landscape Structures, she’s developed an expertise in noodling through landscapes that able-bodied people sometimes take for granted, searching for access opportunities and impediments designers might have overlooked, or as she puts it, “connecting the lived experience with the design.”
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Delano's Landscape Structures builds some of the biggest playgrounds here and abroad
Posted: Sep 18
Landscape Structures' (LSI) local staff of around 500 — plus a select group of Twin Cities test kids — have shaped the way children play, from Shoreview to Brooklyn, N.Y., to Singapore.</p> LSI builds 1,500 to 2,000 playgrounds a year for cities, schools, and private companies across the country and internationally. They can range from tens of thousands of dollars for small pocket parks to millions for destination playgrounds.
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Why Inclusive Playgrounds are Important
Posted: Aug 6
The conversation of inclusion is reaching past the point of ADA-compliant design. With 1 in 4 Americans having a diagnosed disability (CDC, 2022), inclusive spaces are becoming popular around the world. We, as commercial playground designers and manufacturers, are constantly learning what makes for a successful day of play—not only from caregivers, siblings, scholars and therapists, but also people with disabilities.
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Creating Opportunities for Adaptive Recreation
Posted: Jul 1
While more and more new playgrounds are being designed with inclusivity in mind, many older playgrounds don't have equipment and features to support adaptive play for all. If your favorite local playground is one of them, just know there are options for updating. One option that can be especially appealing is to retrofit the existing playstructure.
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Landscape Structures Stands Strong in Supporting Parks and Recreation Professionals: Launches 15th Annual State Speaker Scholarship Program
Posted: Jun 20
Landscape Structures, Minnesota-based commercial playground manufacturer, has proudly announced its commitment to supporting parks and recreation professionals through its 15th annual Parks and Recreation State Speaker Scholarship program.
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Playground Design Trends
Posted: Jun 1
Parents who haven't been to a playground in ages might be astonished by what they see when they take their little ones to the local playground for the first time. They may be struck by the sheer size of the equipment, with soaring towers that dwarf the equipment they played on as kids.
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