GH Phipps was honored to serve as the general contractor for the 9/11 Memorial at Spring Park located adjacent to Poudre Fire Authority’s (PFA) Station #3 in Fort Collins, CO. The memorial centerpieces a 3,059-pound steel I-beam recovered from the wreckage site of the World Trade Center in New York City and gifted to the Poudre Fire Authority in 2015 in honor of the 64 Coloradoans, including nine firefighters from the PFA, that were deployed to assist with search and recovery as part of the Colorado Task Force 1-Urban Search and Rescue team. Three hundred and forty-three rectangular shaped paving stones create pathways to the memorial, representing the 343 firefighters who perished in the attacks.
The $600,000 project, funded entirely by donations, provides a permanent location for the I-beam and allows residents and visitors a destination to contemplate the magnitude of 9/11, reflect on our collective loss and the unified response in the wake of the tragedy, and honor the firefighters and first responders who made the ultimate sacrifice on that day.
