Reserve Park dedication celebration

Join the celebration, Feb. 22, 11 a.m.—1 p.m.

WHAT?

Reserve Park dedication and ribbon cutting ceremon y

WHEN?

Saturday, Feb. 22

11 a.m. —1 p.m.

WHERE?

700 NE 11th St.

Shuttle Parking

10:45 a.m. — 1 p.m.

Martin Luther King Multi-Purpose Center at 1028 NE 14th St. A shuttle van will transport attendees to the park and back.

We hope you'll join us at Gainesville's new neighborhood park!

The City of Gainesville’s Wild Spaces & Public Places program and the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department is pleased to invite you to come out and celebrate your new neighborhood park.

A dedication presentation will take place from 11 a.m.-12 p.m. followed by obstacle course and traveling rings demonstrations by Gainesville residents* who appeared on the “American Ninja Warrior” television program. Light refreshments will be provided and attendees should dress comfortably so they can enjoy all of the fun!

The new park has features for everyone. An original sculpture and service flags line the 8th Avenue entry, while a fenced community garden with fruit trees and a garden shed sits at the park’s 11th Street entry. Other amenities within the park include modern play equipment, traveling rings, an obstacle course, a pavilion, benches, picnic tables, grills, a walking path, open green space and landscaping with extensive tree and shrub plantings. To view more pictures of the park, click here.

*Special thanks to the Ninja Clan for the video demonstration : Marc, Joyce, Lain and Gwen Shahboz. Thanks also goes to Santa Fe College Digital Media for the video production including: Camera-Eric Flagg, Editing-Marc Shahboz, Music-indie a al mode - Video Blocks.

Reserve Park is a City of Gainesville park honoring service members from all branches of the military and their families. Reserve Park was built on the property that was once the C. R. Layton United States Army Reserve Center; the property was transformed into a neighborhood park in 2019. The 257 ^th Movement Control Battalion – known as the Movers and Shakers – occupied this 6.8-acre site for nearly 60 years, from 1951 until 2009.

The approximate cost of the park was $954,000. The Reserve Park project was funded through the Wild Spaces & Public Places half-cent sales tax, Reserve Park CIP fund and tree mitigation funding to support additional tree plantings in the park.

For information about the event, please contact: Jenny Felts McGovern at [email protected], or 352-393-8524 or visit www.cityofgainesvilleparks.org

Reserve Park map

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