North Pratt’s One Pratt Park will officially open Friday morning.

Mayor Randall Woodfin will join Birmingham Park and Rec, city leaders and community members for a ribbon cutting at 11 a.m.

The six-acre, $6.5 million park sits in part of the area that was heavily damaged in the April 27, 2011, tornadoes.

The park was a collaboration between TLS Landscape Architecture of Berkley, California, Macknally Land Design, a local landscape architecture and planning firm; and Design Initiative, a local architecture firm. TLS and Macknally Land Design also worked together on Railroad Park.

City officials said the park has already received an American Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award for design.

Stone Construction of Birmingham built One Pratt Park. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development also provided disaster recovery funding to help develop the park.

The park features a 4,500 square-foot meeting and activity building with large overhead doors that open and close. The doors open onto a trellised plaza, that has a concrete floor painted in magenta and white. An enlarged historic mining map of Pratt appears on the floor to showcase mining quadrants, mineshaft locations, creeks and railroad tracks, city officials said in a press release.

There is also a “misting pad” at the park, which will provide relief from hot summer days. The park has a brightly-colored, inclusive playground with amenities for climbing and sliding. There are large open grass fields for impromptu sports, a reading area adjacent to the library, picnic areas, hammock stands that are available for relaxing, and an accessible walking track.

A meeting room that fits 75 to 100 people. It includes acatering kitchen with sinks and warming ovens.

Brick pavers and granite curbs along the walking paths were reclaimed from old streets around Birmingham

Drought-tolerant plants that are native to Alabama

An open outdoor amphitheater that seats 200.

an LED screen that will display images to celebrate the unique elements of Pratt City

The park entrances are at Lacey Road (or Lacy Road) and Hibernian Street or Lacey (Lacy) Road and Lafayette Street. You may also access Lafayette Street off Dugan Avenue.