The town square moved indoors. Woodbury Central Park reopens.

Woodbury, Minnesota. After three years of planning and construction, Central Park reopened in November 2025 with two celebrations and an estimated 2,000 people through the doors. The $42.3 million renovation and addition, designed by HGA, added 17,100 square feet of new space and renovated 50,800 more.

The program reads like a bet on gathering: an indoor park, an enclosed amphitheater, new meeting rooms, a 12,000 square foot multipurpose space for up to 350 people, and a fully rebuilt Lookout Ridge indoor playground. The building connects the R.H. Stafford Library, the Woodbury YMCA, and Stonecrest Senior Living, so a kid, a student, and a grandparent can share the same roof in January.

It is also a quietly demanding technical building. Designed to Minnesota B3 sustainable standards, it cuts building energy use by 80 percent and layers in biophilic design, healthy materials, bird-friendly glazing, and stormwater management.

Spaces like this are where our world lives. Big volumes full of people are big volumes full of sound, and every hard-surfaced atrium eventually asks the same question: what is the ceiling doing about it? We were glad to have a hand in this one, and we spend our days helping architects and designers answer that question with the brands we represent, from acoustic baffles to backlit ceilings to preserved green walls.