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Project Description:
A new pool, play areas, athletic fields and courts, and other improvements at Long Meadow and East End Parks on Alston Avenue. This historic project would connect and make major improvements to two neighborhood parks rooted in segregation.
In 1932, the land for both parks was donated to the City of Durham. Long Meadow Park was initially segregated, accessible only to whites. The next block over, East End Park was established simultaneously for African Americans. While the parks have been desegregated for decades, this project would symbolically unite these two parks, creating a single park corridor along the R. Kelly Bryant Bridge Trail, featuring the latest innovations in park design, chosen by our community through a months-long engagement process that was completed last year, including playgrounds, athletic courts, and trails connecting the community and improving safety.
Bond Funding: $42,000,000
Project Timeline:
The initial concept design was finished in spring 2023. The bond being approved allows additional design and permitting to begin in spring 2025, with construction beginning in fall 2026, and the proposed opening of the renovated parks and R. Kelly Bryant Bridge Trail in summer 2028.
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