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For Immediate Release • December 8, 2010
Staff Contact: Paula Fitzgerald, Parks and Open Space, 303-651-8448
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DECEMBER 8, 2010 - At a board meeting in Longmont on December 7, the Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) board awarded $700,000 in Colorado Lottery funds to the City of Longmont to fund the first phase of development of the 81-acre Dry Creek Community Park. The Longmont grant was ranked number one out of 108 applications from throughout Colorado.
Located in southwest Longmont south of Silver Creek High School, the future site of Dry Creek Community Park has been the focus of extensive community planning and input. With the help of GOCO/Lottery funds, the City will begin the first phase of park development on approximately 20 acres. In addition to the City’s first 18-hole disc golf course and its first universally accessible playground that will accommodate wheelchairs, phase I development of the park will include five multiuse sports fields, trails and walkways throughout the site, restrooms, a parking lot, and infrastructure, landscaping and irrigation for the entire site.
Bids for park construction should take place by mid-January with total costs of the new park estimated at about $4.4 million. Construction is expected to take eight to nine months, but the park will not open until a year after completion so that the newly seeded multiuse field can grow. The park is projected to be open by late 2012.
GOCO is the result of a citizens’ initiative that was passed in 1992. It receives approximately half of Colorado Lottery proceeds and awards grants to local governments and land trusts and makes investments through the Colorado Division of Wildlife and Colorado State Parks.
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