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PICADO Therese M <br /> From: Eugene News [citynews@ci.eugene.or.us] <br /> ;ent: Monday, August 05, 2002 10:26 AM <br /> To: therese.m.picado@ci.eugene.or.us <br /> Subject: City of Eugene Parks and Open Space News -August 5, 2002 <br /> You are receiving this message because you subscribed to the City of Eugne subscription news service. To unsubscribe <br /> at any time, click on the link at the bottom of this message. <br /> Parks and Open Space Bond Projects Keep on Rolling <br /> As Skyview Park nears completion, construction begins at Bethel Skatepark, Awbrey Park begins a park improvement <br /> process, and the Alton Baker Park boat launch goes to bid. All these projects are funded by the parks and open space <br /> bond measure approved by voters in 1998. <br /> According to construction manager Kevin Finney, Skyview Park is 99.9% complete. Located between the end of Hawkins <br /> Lane and Timberline Drive, the park is in a spectacular natural setting with unobstructed views of Eugene's south hills, a <br /> wetland boardwalk, several large Oregon white oak trees and two small stands of native forest as well as innovative play <br /> equipment and an irrigated playfield. <br /> Airspeed Skateparks, the firm hired to design and build the Bethel skatepark, broke ground on the project July 29. The <br /> Florence-based firm is a design/build skatepark specialist which has constructed facilities across the country, most <br /> recently in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Airspeed tailored the design of the skatepark to reflect input gathered from a public <br /> meeting attended by many Bethel area youth in June. The park is anticipated to be completed by mid-October. <br /> Awbrey Park neighbors are invited to help identify park improvements by participating in a workshop next Wednesday, <br /> '\ugust 14, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the park on the corner of River Road and Spring Creek Drive. This is the first stage of <br /> 3athering input from neighbors to develop a master plan. Construction is scheduled for summer 2003. <br /> The Alton Baker boat ramp project went out to bid July 26. The bid closes August 16, and construction is scheduled to be <br /> completed by the end of October. The launch has been long anticipated by the local boating community as a replacement <br /> for the informal boat launch on the Willamette River that was closed in 1996. The new facility will include a concrete boat <br /> ramp and access road, parking for 12 boat trailers, lighting, landscaping, and irrigation. <br /> For more information on Parks and Open Space projects, please see http://www.ci.eugene.or.us/pw/parks/index.htm <br /> To unsubscribe/change profile: <br /> http://www.mailermailer.com/x?u=8737372,$1$MIEIT$OaD5P2BEmgYg1 QM4Q005TO <br /> To subscribe: <br /> http://www.mailermailer.com/x?oid=05492e <br /> Email list management powered by http://MailerMailer.com <br /> 1 <br />