Osan City to Install Landscape Lighting at Dolmen Park by Year-End to Enhance Prestige

[Suwon Ilbo=Park Chan-hyuk Reporter] Osan City announced on the 20th that it will install landscape lighting at Dolmen Park (520 Geumam-dong), one of the city's major healing spaces, by the end of this year to enhance the park's prestige.

Mayor Lee Gwon-jae has been promoting the project to install landscape lighting at Gyeonggi-do's Water-scented Arboretum since shortly after launching the 8th civilian-led administration, benchmarking Gapyeong's Morning Calm Garden.

However, the Water-scented Arboretum faced difficulties in promoting night light-up events for forest environmental research, so the city relocated the project site to Dolmen Park, a large-scale park facility nearby.

The city benchmarked the Suwon Ilwol Arboretum, which conducts night opening events for landscape lighting installation projects, and accelerated the project by applying to Gyeonggi-do for a special adjustment subsidy.

Through this process, in cooperation with Gyeonggi-do Province and the People Power Party Gyeonggi-do Council, the city secured a total project budget of 2.25 billion won for installing night landscape lighting, and the project received a green light.

The city plans to complete landscape lighting installation by year-end. Once the lighting installation is complete, it is expected that Dolmen Park will become Osan's representative attraction, complementing the barefoot yellow clay path.

Prior to this, the city concurrently promoted the "1st Oh! Happy Rose Festival," which was held against the backdrop of the Rose Trellis Garden located in Dolmen Park, and concluded successfully.

The city is also constructing a 146-space parking lot around Eunbit Stream Park to ensure accessibility to Dolmen Park.

Mayor Lee Gwon-jae emphasized, "Once the landscape lighting installation is completed, Dolmen Park's brand value will advance to a new level, and safe pedestrian passage conditions for citizens will also be established."

The mayor continued, "In particular, at the '2nd Oh! Happy Rose Festival' to be held next year, the fragrance of flowers and light will combine to offer a wonderful night view," and added, "We will discover and implement projects that further enhance the value of citizens' healing spaces."