Playground Resurfacing
Improving Parks | 2.5 Million
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Alonzo Weaver Park
June 29- The City of Memphis kicked off the Accelerate Memphis plan with playground resurfacing at Alonzo Weaver Park. Twelve other parks will also be resurfaced.
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McFarland
The playground is one part of the overall improvements to McFarland Park.
Parks received a $225,000 grant from TDEC to make improvements to the park to eliminate drainage issues that caused areas of the park to stay wet or muddy.
Parks added funds of $440,000 to include the new playground, as the park had never had one.
The Contractor is A and B Construction. The cost of the playground was $440,000.
Parks has designed drainage improvements that make it a more ‘green’ infrastructure to encourage infiltration of storm water into the site vs sending it all into the street storm system.
There will be a walking trail in the future.