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Featured Bid - Currie Park Phase 1 Improvements - Splash Pad & Playground
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Featured Bid - Currie Park Phase 1 Improvements - Splash Pad & Playground

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) has selected design consultants for Phase I Improvements for Currie Park. The project scope includes a new splash pad and improvements to the park's restroom building and playground. Upon MPRB review and selection of the project scope, the consultant will further provide community engagement support, design, construction documentation, bidding and construction administration services for the identified Phase I Improvements.

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Featured Park Bid - New Municipal Swimming Pool
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Featured Park Bid - New Municipal Swimming Pool

In a special election on March 6, local voters approved a measure to issue bonds in an amount not to exceed $2.8 million to help finance a new swimming pool. The pool will be built in the same footprint as the current pool, retaining six 25-yard lap lanes and a separate 13-foot diving hopper. Base plans call for a wider, ADA compliant pool deck, a zero-depth entry area for families with young children, a single one-meter diving board, and a new bathhouse.

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Featured Park Bid - BMX/Skate Park
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Featured Park Bid - BMX/Skate Park

The Lexington Parks and Recreation Department has finalized the design for a new BMX/Skate park. The project will be out to bid by the end of August 2018 and construction is estimated to take less than six months, starting at the end of the year.

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Featured Park Bid - New City Park
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Featured Park Bid - New City Park

The city is proceeding with plans to build a new $1.5 park in the downtown area off Brown Street. The park that will consist of an amphitheater, a splash pad, playgrounds, multiple pavilions and a walking trail is expected to be open to the public in April 2019.

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Featured Park Bid - John H. Marble Park Improvements
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Featured Park Bid - John H. Marble Park Improvements

Architects are working on designs for improvements to include an expanded zero-entry pool, more shade structures, expanded restrooms, more picnic pavillions, and splash pad. The project will also include a new gymnasium and upgraded shuffleboard, bocce ball and pickelball courts.

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Featured Park Bid - Veterans Memorial Splash Pad
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Featured Park Bid - Veterans Memorial Splash Pad

The redevelopment consists of removing the existing "caddyshack" building, removing the existing play and splash pad equipment, preparing the site for new facilities and constructing the new splash pad, including a shaded structure, picnic facilities, a restroom, a changing room, concession, lighting, fencing, landscaping and electrical work. The estimated cost of the project is $969,822.

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Featured Park Bid - Harmony Square
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Featured Park Bid - Harmony Square

Plans are proceeding for the construction of a new 40,000 square foot outdoor plaza in downtown Tinley Park. Proposed for a site north of North Street and east of Oak Park Avenue, Harmony Square would have features such as a performance stage, artificial turf lawns, a splash pad/hockey rink and concession stand.

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Featured Park Bid - Civic Center ADA Compliant Playground
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Featured Park Bid - Civic Center ADA Compliant Playground

City Council recently authorized a $90,000 Ohio Department of Natural Resources NatureWorks grant application for an ADA-compliant playground at the Civic Center. The $350,000-plus project calls for replacing an existing play structure between the Center’s Waterpark and ice arena.

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Featured Park Bid - RENU Recreation Facility Improvements
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Featured Park Bid - RENU Recreation Facility Improvements

The New Ulm City Council has approved the advertisement of multiple RFPs seeking construction
management and design services for several parks and recreation projects. Initial RFPs will be issued for an indoor waterpark, indoor playground, gymnastics center, and wellness center.

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Featured Park Bid - Aquatic Center
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Featured Park Bid - Aquatic Center

The North Ridgeville City Council unanimously approved a resolution to send a plan for an aquatic center to the Lorain County Auditor’s Office. The resolution seeks a $5 million, 20-year funding request on the ballot in November. The city is looking at building the aquatic center on 17.5 acres it owns on Bainbridge Road.

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Featured Park Bid - Riverview Discovery Island Playground
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Featured Park Bid - Riverview Discovery Island Playground

The city has been approved for a $300,000 matching grant from the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund for replacement of the Imagination Station Playground. The new area will be called Riverview Discovery Island Playground. The unique and accessible play area will include both natural and manufactured play areas and equipment, parking, lighting, landscaping, sanitary facilities and a variety of site furnishings

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Featured Park Project - Detroit Mountain Recreation Area
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Featured Park Project - Detroit Mountain Recreation Area

Detroit Mountain, MN - Detroit Mountain Recreation Area is expanding its footprint and adding new features with a $1.2 million grant from the state's Legacy fund. The park recently acquired 150 additional acres for the property, and plans are underway to develop a treehouse and playground area, create some new bike trails, add paving and landscaping and more.

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Sign Up For Recycling Grant
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Sign Up For Recycling Grant

STAMFORD, Conn.--The Dr Pepper Snapple Group/Keep America Beautiful Park Recycling Infrastructure Grant Program opened its 2018 application process, offering new opportunities

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Forte Products Aquires Charloma, Inc.
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Forte Products Aquires Charloma, Inc.

Kansas City, MO.--Forte Products recently acquired Charloma, Inc. of Cherryvale, Kan. Charloma, Inc. is a manufacturer of rotational, injection, thermoforming, and fiberglass molding components for the automotive, lawn & garden, RV, packaging and construction industries.

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