KINGSPORT TENNESSEE

Celebrating the Kingsport Spirit, Kingsport’s Centennial Park
will provide a unique destination and link to downtown
Kingsport that commemorates the community’s past,
present and future. This project was led by Brenda White Wright
and a Centennial Park Committee.
After careful study and community input, the Centennial
Commission developed a plan for a financially feasible and
sustainable legacy project. Kingsport Centennial Park will be a
destination project of enduring value celebrating the Kingsport
Spirit for the city’s 2017 centennial, positively impacting the
people of Kingsport for many years to come.
Public-Private Partnership
City approved $1,320,018
for Centennial Park
The park will serve as a community gathering place and
destination, located adjacent to the Main Street Historic
District,in downtown Kingsport. Planned park elements will
include a historic brick walkway that circles the park, telling the
story of modern Kingsport by decade.
A water feature that serves to enhance the park’s aesthetics as
well as acting as a play feature for the young and young at heart
will be centrally placed in the park. Public art and a large central
greenspace to accommodate a range of users will round out the
park’s offerings.
Kingsport’s
Centennial Park
Our gift to our children...
Part of what makes Centennial Park unique is its role as an
anchor linking downtown to the former General Shale property.
There’s also great potential for other outdoor recreation uses
and a link to the Kingsport Greenbelt. Linking downtown with
outdoor recreation and the river is an essential part of the future
vision for downtown Kingsport.
A groundbreaking will occur November 15, 2016, and the park is
projected to open in summer 2017.
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