A little neighborhood stimulus
July 3rd, 2009 | Published in general | 4 Comments
When I picked up our CSA share this week, I heard of a new playground at a little park nearby. I walked over there with the girls today, and it was a pretty cool little playground. It had previously been a beat-up tiny tots play area that we’d never actually played at before.
The new playground is the nicest new one i’ve seen in the city; usually the nifty new kid parks are in the ‘burbs. This one had a soaring structure with spider web-like climbing ropes, a wacky straddle slide, and swings, all with this neat cushy artificial turf beneath it. The whole setup was maybe a week old, it was really fun to play on equipment that swings and swivels and twists smoothly and quietly.
It struck me while hanging out in the park and chatting that in these economic hard times, there are few better things to spend a little money on than a safe and fun new place for kids to play and neighbors to gather.
July 4th, 2009 at 5:19 pm (#)
Excellent, let’s hear it for community!
July 5th, 2009 at 10:10 am (#)
I’m in the hood–where’s the new playground?
July 7th, 2009 at 11:30 pm (#)
Ooh, where’s this?
July 8th, 2009 at 4:29 pm (#)
It’s just east of Hamline, between Selby and the train tracks, next to the bridge where Hamline goes over the tracks.