SEE: Manhattan's Pier 97 To Become Lush Park

HELL'S KITCHEN, NY — Work to transform a Hudson River pier into a lush park packed with trees and other vegetation will begin next year, the Hudson River Park Trust announced Tuesday.

The Hudson River Park Trust will spend $38 million to create a new park at Pier 97, the northernmost pier of Hudson River Park located off West 57th Street, according to the executives at the city and state partnership. The trust was created by 1998's Hudson River Park Act, which established the west side waterfront park.

Construction on the project at Pier 97 is expected to begin in fall 2020 and be complete by spring 2022, the trust announced. Features of the new park include new play equipment, an interactive water feature, gathering spaces that are both shaded and exposed to sun, a new restroom and an elevated "belvedere" with views of the Hudson.

Pier 97 was rebuilt in 2013 and is currently an empty concrete pier.

The Hudson River Park Trust hired the architecture firm !melk to design the new park, Curbed New York first reported. The design team met with local residents to incorporate community input into the design, according to the report.

"We wanted to give the pier a significant identity because it’s kind of like the gateway to Hudson River Park," Jerry van Eyck, principal at Melk, told Curbed. "What we tried to do was bring a sort of romanticism back, all squeezed into the limited real estate that we have."

Check out more renderings of the new park below:

Images courtesy !melk/Hudson River Park Trust