Crews are putting the final touches for the opening this weekend of the first city park since 2005, the ranch-themed John Venezia Community Park in Briargate .
Before Saturday’s opening, crews will need to lay mulch, draw lines on game fields and sweep the area for trash, said Kyle Peterson, a seasonal worker with the Colorado Springs Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Services.
“It’s going to be nice having a new park up north,” he said.
More than a decade in the making, the John Venezia Community Park will be the first new park in Colorado Springs since America the Beautiful Park debuted 12 years ago, said Sarah Bryarly, a landscape architect with the Parks Department.
The park near Briargate Parkway and North Union Boulevard was suggested by a resident at a public meeting on the city’s capital improvement projects, Bryarly said.
“And in 2006 funding was allocated and we began the process of looking for a bonding mechanism so the park could get constructed,” she said.
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