New playground to be added at Post Falls park
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Woodbridge Park in Post Falls is adding features as part of a park project for the city. Work is expected to conclude by this fall.
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The Woodbridge Park playground is being replaced with newer equipment. The current playground will remain in effect as the new equipment prepared.
Carolyn Bostick has worked for the Coeur d’Alene Press since June 2023. She covers Shoshone County and Coeur d'Alene. Carolyn previously worked in Utica, New York at the Observer-Dispatch for almost seven years before briefly working at The Inquirer and Mirror in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Since she moved to the Pacific Northwest from upstate New York in 2021, she's performed with the Spokane Shakespeare Society for three summers. | June 15, 2024 1:00 AM
POST FALLS — Woodbridge Park’s playground is getting a facelift. The Post Falls park project will add separate play structures for 2- to 5-year-olds and 5- to 12-year-olds, as well as new swings.
Post Falls park planner Robbie Quinn said a shelter and landscaping will also be added. The current playground in use is getting older and staff were having difficulty finding replacement parts and keeping up with maintenance.
The current playground at Woodbridge is staying in active use as the new equipment is readied.
Additional sidewalks are planned for the park as well as site furnishings. An expansion to the restroom building is also planned in order to better house storage for the department. During this stage of the expansion, the restroom building will be closed, but portables will be available for the duration of construction.
“We're doing most of that work in-house, so it's a little slower going just because we don't have the manpower to crank it out,” Quinn said.
The park projects are expected to be completed by September.
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