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

[katherine fiorello (from livejournal.com)]

I think that house next to the playground is being renovated. It has housed many transients in the past several years (many of them seeming extremely high upon leaving the house, so we always thought there was some sort of sketchy illicit business going on in that house). I'm so hoping it'll be cleaned up & non-drug related people will live there, as having a drug den directly next to a playground is absolutely horrible.

Just got an email from Alderman Gewirtz who has done an awesome job keeping our family in the loop w./ this playground work & said that the playground will not be open until the first week in November (according to the city). I'm hoping they'll be putting in a rubberized playground floor over the stones too in the next couple of weeks, as leaving it just rocks could be an accident waiting to happen w./ kids.