ALSIP, IL — The Alsip Park District seeks suggestions from residents relating to proposed plans for the redevelopment of Freedom Park, 131st Street and Cicero Avenue. The assembly begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 16.
The park district is making use of for an Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Grant by way of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Residents could have the chance to overview idea plans, and ask park district officers questions in regards to the undertaking. Similar grants have been additionally acquired to update Laramie Park, the skate park and the pool.
Proposed plans name for 2 new play areas, new swings together with tot and ADA, two pickleball courts, new picnic tables, a shaded seating space, and 9-hole disc golf course. The Alsip Park District can also be including small and enormous canine play areas, the place pooches can frolic leash free.
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The idea relies on a plan developed with the neighborhood in 2013 and is actually the identical. The solely additions to present plan are a pair of pickleball courts, which weren’t in vogue a decade in the past however are all the craze now.
“Freedom Park is at the moment 5 acres, however the precise web site is 22 acres which the park district leases from [the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District],” mentioned Jeannette Huber, director of Alsip Parks and Recreation. “We bought the house for a canine park.”
