Triangle Park, a private park built for public use, spreads out at 400 W Main Street here in Lexington, Kentucky. The park was created in 1981 by the Triangle Foundation, an organization formed a year earlier in 1980 by Mr. Alex Campbell Jr. and a group of community leaders with a mission to initiate private projects for public benefit. Today the Foundation boasts over 100 members whose donations have enabled projects such as Equestrian Park at Blue Grass Airport, Thoroughbred Park and Woodland Skateboard Park, along with several other important community projects.
Triangle Park itself was designed by Robert Zion. Though Mr. Zion was not widely known to the public, his firm Zion and Breen created some of New York’s most cherished urban spaces, including Samuel Paley Plaza (better known as Paley Park), the atrium of the I.B.M. Building, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, and the grounds of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Today the park is managed and maintained by the Central Bank Center and is used as a source of entertainment for local citizens.
Notice that its designer, Robert Zion, also shaped New York's Paley Park and the grounds of the Statue of Liberty.