Cherie Buckner-Webb Park

1100 Due west Bannock St., Boise

Cherie Buckner-Webb Park is the City of Boise's newest downtown urban park. Information technology replaced a individual surface parking lot with a destination community space open to everyone.

Hours of Operation

Park is open up from sunrise to dusk.

Parking

There is on-street (metered) parking bachelor.

Restrooms

Restrooms are available at this park. Restrooms are open and park drinking fountains are now operational.

Park Restroom Data

Features & Amenities

Restrooms

Restrooms are available at this park. Restrooms are open and park drinking fountains are now operational.

Park Restroom Information

Smoking Prohibition

Smoking and vaping are prohibited in all Metropolis of Boise parks, including inside xx feet of the Boise River Greenbelt, except in designated areas within Ann Morrison and Julia Davis Parks and at urban center-owned golf courses.

Towing

Unauthorized vehicles will exist towed at owner's hazard and expense. You can contact Boise Valley Towing past calling (208) 389-9707.

Nearly the Park

Westside Downtown Boise is an evolving neighborhood that lacks acceptable public infinite amenities for the growing population of residents and businesses. The public voiced a need for parks and public spaces in Westside Downtown during public workshops in 2016. The resulting master plan, City of Boise's Downtown Parks and Public Spaces Master Plan, embodied this input by recommending the cosmos of a distinctive urban open up space almost the intersection of 11th Street and Bannock Street. A public-private partnership in 2019 between CCDC, The Metropolis of Boise, and Eleven Eleven West Jefferson, LLC, has made possible the ability to create that distinctive infinite for Boise residents and workers to enjoy. It is at present known equally Cherie-Buckner Webb Park.

The park provides a identify for people to connect with the outdoors on a daily ground, serve as a hub for customs events, and enhance the urban lifestyle of downtown employees, residents, shoppers, and visitors. The one-half-acre site is surrounded past surface parking lots that detract from downtown'south vibrancy, walkability, and economic vitality.

Situated forth a bike corridor to and from downtown, the park includes amenities that enhance the downtown pedestrian and cycling experience with streetscape improvements and primal features including:

  • A large, tree-lined green space
  • Public art
  • Shaded seating
  • New streetscapes along all three street frontages
  • Pedestrian alley with limited auto access
  • Public restrooms
  • Places to store bikes

Park Naming

Cherie Buckner-Webb

The park at 11thursday and Bannock is named subsequently trailblazing Idahoan Cherie Buckner-Webb.

Buckner-Webb has spent her career breaking down barriers. She was the first Blackness adult female elected to the Idaho Legislature, serving in the state House of Representatives from 2010 to 2012 and then serving iii terms in the Idaho State Senate, wrapping up her final term in 2020.

She is a vehement human rights advocate who has dedicated much of her life to the Boise community. She worked tirelessly to create the Idaho Black History Museum in the historic St. Paul Baptist Church – her great-grandpa'south former church building – now located in Julia Davis Park. Her son, Phillip Thompson, runs the museum and is conveying on her legacy of local service.

Buckner-Webb has besides served on the boards of a multifariousness of local nonprofits and organizations, including the Women's and Children's Alliance, the Idaho Man Rights Education Center, and the Andrus Center for Public Policy, among others. She also owns a local consulting and coaching business that develops multifariousness training for executives.

Inspiration for the park name came directly from denizen submissions gathered during a public engagement process in 2021. A group of project stakeholders tasked with sorting through the more than 1,200 name ideas identified the submission and the Boise City Council unanimously approved the name.

*Photo past Brooke Buron, Copyright Boise City Department of Arts & History

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Public Art

In December 2019, Boise Metropolis Council canonical the choice of public artist Matthew Mazzotta. The recommendation came from the Capital City Development Corporation Board, the Arts & History Commission and the creative person selection committee. Mazzotta hosted an "outdoor living room" session in January 2020 to get together public input and learn more about the space and the vision residents have for the expanse. Mazzotta used this feedback to develop two public art design concepts that were presented to the community for feedback. A public feedback survey form was released by Boise City Section of Arts & History during the week of July 20th and closed on July 31st. Most 200 comments were collected, with a majority of comments in favor of the "Gentle Breeze" design option. The design concept and public feedback were presented to and approved by the community-based selection console, the CCDC Board, the Arts & History Committee, and Boise Metropolis Council.

The artwork was installed during the summer of 2021 and is the newest addition to the city's public fine art collection.

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