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Rendering: Gulick Park playground area.
Nine years after local residents began advocating for the renovation of Luther Gulick Park, the Parks Department is finally ready to put the project out for bid.
According to the grass roots organization, Friends of Gulick Park, the project will be posted next month. “If all goes well,” a message on the group’s Facebook page, notes, “a contractor will be selected by March, construction will begin in the fall and we will have a new park by 2020.”
Following a lengthy community visioning process, the Parks Department unveiled final revamp plans in 2014. You can see the renderings here. Workers have already begun to construct new bathrooms, which hopefully will be finished sooner.
Just a couple of months after The Lo-Down came into being, in June of 2009, a grass-roots campaign to revitalize Luther Gulick Park on Sheriff Street caught our attention. Almost a decade later, reconstruction of the neglected space alongside the Williamsburg Bridge is finally about to begin.
According to a Parks Department spokesperson, the $9.9 million project will commence in March, with completion expected in 2020. Plans call for an open lawn area, new seating, separate playgrounds for toddlers and older children and active recreation areas for basketball, handball and table tennis. There will also be a new comfort station (bathrooms). The sidewalks and fencing around the park will be replaced as part of the revamp.