Jeonju City Begins Construction of 'Citizen's Forest' at Comprehensive Stadium

Starting with the first forest, 'Jeongwon-ui Sup', the 'Citizen's Sup 1963' project is in full swing

[Jeonju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Han-ho] Jeonju City announced that the ‘Citizen’s Forest 1963’ project took its first step on the 30th with the groundbreaking of the ‘Garden Forest’.

On this day, Jeonju City held the ‘Jeonju Sports Complex Garden Forest Creation Project Groundbreaking Ceremony’ behind the baseball stadium of Jeonju Sports Complex, marking the start of the ‘Citizen’s Forest 1963’ project, a site regeneration project for Jeonju Sports Complex that will accelerate the realization of the ten million tree garden city value.

Among the five forests of the entire sports complex (Garden Forest, Gourmet Forest, MICE Forest, Art Forest, Playground Forest), the ‘Garden Forest,’ which is being created first, will transform this place, layered with Jeonju’s time and citizens’ memories, into a garden of remembrance and a harmonious garden where citizens and children can gather together.

The project site covers approximately 8,000㎡, including the cleaning vehicle garage next to the baseball stadium and the relocated archery range site.

Jeonju City plans to invest a total project cost of 2.7 billion KRW by the end of this year to create the Garden Forest with three themes: △Garden capturing the scenery △Flower hill forest △Path embracing the yard.

The ‘Garden capturing the scenery’ will form a strong axis connecting the entire Citizen’s Forest, featuring a field garden, mirror pond, ground fountain, and stone wall path.

Adjacent to it, the ‘Flower hill forest’ will be created as a forest where the beauty of flowers can be felt, filled with a rain garden, garden with hills, tree-lined street, and purple garden.

Linked with the ‘Art Forest’ created at the sports complex baseball stadium, the ‘Path embracing the yard,’ which allows for various activities, will include a white garden, hill path, and wide yard.

In addition to the Garden Forest, which broke ground on this day, Jeonju City is currently carrying out administrative procedures to create the Art Forest and the ‘MICE Forest.’

At the groundbreaking ceremony, attendees performed a commemorative performance of watering the trees to be planted in the Garden Forest instead of the first shovel and also planted a Zelkova tree together.

Jeonju Mayor Kim Seung-su said, “With the start of the Garden Forest creation, the site regeneration of ‘Citizen’s Forest 1963,’ which returns the Jeonju Sports Complex built in 1963 with citizens’ donations back to the citizens, has finally begun,” adding, “Starting with the Garden Forest, the Playground, Art, Gourmet, and MICE Forests will be created, and once the Deokjin area urban regeneration New Deal project is on track, the sports complex site will become a core space of Jeonju’s cultural and economic center, serving as a cultural rest area for citizens and a vital force for the economy.”

Meanwhile, the Korean Cultural Heritage Content Experience Exhibition Hall to be built at the Jeonju baseball stadium main stand and the Jeonju Museum of Art are conducting their own feasibility studies, and the exhibition convention center and hotel to be built on the right (northeast side) of the sports complex have completed feasibility studies by the Korea Institute of Local Administration and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s central investment review for local finance, the city added.

The construction project for the replacement facilities of the sports complex, including the athletics stadium and baseball stadium near Jeonju World Cup Stadium, has completed compensation for the incorporated land and is currently undergoing detailed design services.

Jeonju=Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Han-ho stonepeak@asiae.co.kr

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