The Columbia College Garden was a dark, overgrown, and underutilized pocket park located adjacent to the College’s Theatre Building at E 11th Street and S Wabash Avenue in the South Loop. site began working collaboratively with Columbia College in 2018 to design a garden renovation that creates a lively and flexible open space to be used by College faculty, staff, students, and the community as a whole. The renovated garden opened in 2019, and now includes grassy mounds, varying paving textures, flexible seating and stage features, and four-season plantings. A mural backdrop created by artist Hello Kirsten for the Wabash Arts Corridor provides a vibrant backdrop to the garden.
