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[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Any word on the Korean Restaurant that was going to go in the ExDonalds? There seems to be nothing happening there.

And speaking of nothing happening, how come the city ripped out Kenney Park and then stopped working? The park's been out of commission for months of just sitting there a mess. Shame on them for doing the demo when they weren't ready to do the reconstruction; it's a waste of good space.

Anyone have the scoop on either of these?

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[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I mean Kenney Park on Chester and Highland, across from Rite Aid. They ripped it out to redo it, though after all those community meetings the plans look almost indistinguishable from what they ripped out, only they say they'll get the fountain working again. But in fact it's talking so long I fear it won't be ready in time for Honk! and it's been out of commission all summer when it's needed most.

[ron_newman]

Your post was about Kenney Park, but commenter Katherine Fiorello brought up Kennedy Park.

(Grove and Highland, actually)

I suggest giving a call to Arne Franzen and/or Luisa Oliveira at City Hall tomorrow morning. ETA: I'm going to email both of them right now and point them at this discussion.

[ron_newman]

I got this from Luisa Oliveira. Can you post whatever replies you got from her or from Arn Franzen?

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From: Luisa Oliveira <loliveira@somervillema.gov>
Subject: RE: what is happening with Kenney Park renovation?

Yes, we have had some delays due to the manufacturing of pieces that had to be custom made to bring the play structure up to current safety recommendations. There are many elements to building a park that need to ordered/created outside the construction team and , unfortunately, they can hold up the process. We anticipate things getting back on track very soon. You can always find updates to all parks projects on the City’s website:

http://www.somervillema.gov/departments/ospcd/parks-and-open-space/kenney-park

Thanks for your patience.
Luisa

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

One might have thought these things would have been ordered somewhere back around the groundbreaking (which was what, almost a year ago now?) or before. Ah well.