Hand In Hand Playground Redesign Interactive Engagement
Venue: Blacksburg Community Center / Recreation Center, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Blacksburg Parks and Recreation Department, Town of Blacksburg
Date: Saturday, August 27, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Event Types: Miscellaneous, Family Friendly
Cost: Free
The Town of Blacksburg and Blacksburg Parks and Recreation Department presents Hand In Hand Playground Redesign Interactive Engagement on Saturday, August 27, 2022 at the Blacksburg Recreation Center.
The Hand-in-Hand wooden playground, located on Turner Street in Municipal Park, was built in 1992 by community volunteers. The 30-year-old structure has brought joy and entertainment to many children, but it is showing much wear and tear and needs to be brought up to current national safety standards.
The Town of Blacksburg is hosting this fun and interactive event to being the process of renewal of the Hand-in-Hand Playground. You and your kids will have opportunities to discuss, dream, play, design and invent elements of the new playground through storytelling, block-building, miniature models and other interactive experiences.
Kid input is very welcome, encouraged and essential!
Drop in with your kids any time during the event.
Leathers & Associates, the same company that helped design the original playground will once again be working with the Town to design and install a new custom-designed destination playground using modern materials. The Town envisions that this playground will continue to serve ages 2-12 and will include benches and small tabletops throughout the playground, along with wood chips (made of engineered wood fiber) as its base.
Let's get creative together! It is important to the Town that this playground continues to reflect our children’s imaginations and the wants and needs of our community.
Leathers & Associates will use all the community input provided to create two conceptual plans for the new playground. Citizens will then have an opportunity in October to select the plan they prefer. Winter of 2023 will be spent finalizing plans, ordering materials, and beginning site work. The Town plans to unveil the new playground in May 2023.
To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/sXM4tzg9/image.png.
For more information, visit: https://letstalkblacksburg.org/hand-in-hand or contact Dean Crane at 540-443-1101 or email dcrane@blacksburg.gov.
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