Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood lacks quality public space and faces a looming environmental threat: rising sea levels are pushing groundwater upward, threatening to rupture the buried culvert containing Sausal Creek. This project tackles both issues by daylighting the creek, reclaiming and transforming a critical underground pipe into a visible, socio-ecological asset for the community. The design extends the existing Carmen Flores Recreation Center across José de la Cruz Park under a sweeping, solar-integrated canopy. The landscape is designed to shift radically between seasons. In dry months, it acts as an active civic hub offering shaded performance plazas, terraced play areas, and a soccer field, all running on community-generated solar power. When the wet season arrives, the ground plane becomes a working sponge. These same public spaces flood by design, acting as a bioretention system that filters runoff, prevents erosion, and restores native biodiversity. To combat summer heat, a closed-loop greywater system powers overhead sprinklers and feeds tiered planters, creating a localized microclimate against the urban heat island. Climate infrastructure doesn’t have to be invisible. By unearthing Sausal Creek, this design secures long-term resilience for a vulnerable community, putting climate adaptation at the heart of the neighborhood rather than burying it underground.