Kenney Park ETA?

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

Any insider news about the Kenney Park renovation? The park has been offline for almost a year(!) and the posted Spring/Summer 2014 completion dates have long passed.

I ask because Honk is coming up and Kenney has been one of the venues. Also because I always wonder about these small city projects which really should take no more than a month or two but which seem to stretch out for no apparent reason. Wouldn't it make more sense to start one project and see it through rapidly rather than to start numerous projects (to give the appearance of activity– or is that too cynical?) which then take ages to complete? Perhaps there is some technical reason it has taken so long?

Anyway, I've noticed more work activity around Kenney the last few weeks but it doesn't look like the park will be completed by next weekend.

Comments

[keithn.livejournal.com]

Is the sign still up on the construction site saying that the park would re-open in "Summer 2014?" It's a bit embarrassing. I believe it has Rebekah Gewirtz's name plastered on it. You'd think they would have parts ready before closing a park down for construction so the space wasn't a completely useless, ugly hole in the ground for an entire year.

[ron_newman]

So far, that makes them two weeks late....

[keithn.livejournal.com]

I don't have the exact wording of the sign, but it implied that the park would be ready for the summer of 2014. I don't think a reasonable person would conclude that they meant it would be ready on the autumnal equinox.

I wouldn't expect to see it completed before next spring at this point. I haven't seen it in a week or so, but what I saw didn't look like it would be completed anytime soon, and snow will soon cover the park.