Redo of Peavey Plaza in Minneapolis preserves and updates the once-popular park

Outraged by those plans, the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota and the Cultural Landscape Foundation filed a lawsuit under the Minnesota Environmental Rights Act, and they prevailed.

As a result of the legal settlement, the city agreed to preserve the plaza. After a nearly four-year hiatus, it hired another local landscape architecture firm, Coen and Partners, and local consultants Preservation Design Works to come up with a plan that would revamp the plaza, but keep its design elements intact.