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In 1999, a group of Northsiders鈥� committed to preserving Allegheny Commons joined forces to raise funds for a comprehensive master plan.

The planning process was led by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm Pressley Associates and involved community members; experts in the fields of history, architecture, landscape architecture, and park maintenance; stakeholder organizations in and around the park; and the City of Pittsburgh. The resulting 鈥淎llegheny Commons Master Plan鈥� was published in 2002. Implementation began with the completion of a five-acre demonstration area in the East Common and the whole of the park is expected to be restored by 2018, the sesquicentennial of the Commons.

The Allegheny Commons master plan respects the continuum of park history聽by recommending the preservation of 聽the most significant features from the park鈥檚 more than 200-year evolution, including the 1966 design by Simonds. The decision to honor the site鈥檚 evolution became a way to convey the import of the 鈥榠nvisible鈥� design elements from the recent past along with that of the better understood picturesque ancestors. Today, Lake Elizabeth stands as a witness to that continuum.

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