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6A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com
Wednesday, August 29,2018
Officials offer Main Street Park update
Allie Dean Dawson County News
The city's Main Street Park will comprise of 18 acres behind city hall and the Food Lion, with
Allen Street (seen here) to the north of the park and Main Street and Memory Lane to the
south.
By Allie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
City Manager Bob Bolz pre
sented an update on the prog
ress of Main Street Park during
a city council meeting Aug. 20,
and gave the council a timeline
for when amenities such as the
amphitheater and playgrounds
should be installed.
Bolz said phase one of con
struction on the park is about
40 percent complete. The city
broke ground on the current
phase mid-June after awarding
the $1.4 million contract to TW
Phillips Grading.
This phase consists of grad
ing, grassing,
curbing and
paving the 18
acres behind
city hall and
the Food Lion.
A walking trail
will be con
structed and
infrastructure
will also be
placed as part of this phase.
Bolz said the estimated com
pletion date for the work is
sometime in November,
depending on the weather.
While that work is being done,
Bolz and city staff have been
working to design playgrounds,
a restroom and a plan for land
scaping and fencing.
The city will also be working
to determine staffing and oper
ational needs for the park.
The playground design pro
cess will include deciding on a
theme and selecting the com
ponents of each playground,
which Bolz said will be
designed to be inclusive to all
abilities as well as cater to dif
ferent age groups.
“We have talked with seven
playground companies and
have two more that we’ve
scheduled to talk with,” Bolz
said. “They are to go back and
send us recommendations and
designs and we were going to
try to pick three designs, bring
them to y’all and see which
one y’all like the best.”
Once the design is selected,
the work will be put out to bid.
“All three will be all-inclu
sive, where special needs peo
ple would be playing right
alongside whatever age group
is playing on that set,” Bolz
said. “We’ve instructed each
designer not just to make it
ADA accessible but to make it
inclusive. Every piece can’t be
inclusive, but the idea is they
won’t be separated from their
playmates.”
City staff has also planned to
have a landscape architect to
design landscaping following
each phase.
Phase two will consist of
installation of street lighting
along the new portion of Main
Street, as well as playground
installation, construction of a
restroom and concession facili
ty similar to the one in the mid
dle of Rock Creek Park and
fencing around the perimeter.
Also part of phase two will
be developing a plan for the
amphitheater, which Bolz said
could potentially hold up to
1,000 people. Figuring out
what kind of artificial turf or
ground treatment would be
used for the amphitheater
would also be part of the
design.
“There is a lot of excitement
and desire to use the amphithe
ater,” Bolz said. “The challenge
comes in what we put on the
ground to protect it where it
doesn’t get muddy and wash
away. As we’ve been meeting
with the playground people, a
lot of them also do amphithe
aters. So we’re traveling
around this week to look at
some playgrounds and amphi
theaters that some of our ven
dors have recommended we go
look at.”
Bolz also recommended the
council consider contracting a
management company when
the park gets up and running.
“I know that Mayor Eason
and councilman Tolson have
already met with one company
that is interested in managing,
that would probably be the best
way to go at least initially,
because they market it and it’s
sort of a turnkey operation,” he
said.
Finally, phase two would
also include design of picnic
shelters along trails and instal
lation of benches, picnic tables
and related amenities.
The park would really get up
and running during phase three,
with the development, con
struction and installation of the
amphitheater amenities, includ
ing staging and power and the
ground cover. The cost is esti
mated to be between $300,000
and $350,000, Bolz said, with a
target completion date of
spring or summer 2019.
Picnic shelters would cost
around $150,000 to erect at this
point, depending on how many
the city decides to install. The
city would also have a dog park
designed, bid out and con
structed in phase three. Other
work during this phase would
include deciding where to
install exercise stations at vari
ous points along the trail as
well as design of a splash pad.
After that, Bolz said it just
depends on what the council
wants to do with the rest of the
park.
“I’ve heard pickleball, I’ve
heard parking shelters, we’ve
got that area in the north corner
where there was sand volley
ball and a skate park, I’ve
heard we don’t want to do that
so we’ve got that area to con
sider and then the area south of
the road,” he said. “Currently
we’ve got a green area, two
pickleball courts, two bocce
ball courts and a small rest
room facility, so if we don’t
want to do that and we want to
do something else, now is the
time to start thinking about it.”
When he got to phase four,
Bolz reminded the council that
the plans for the park are all
funding-dependent.
“All this is dependent on
available money, we don’t have
a tree that we’re pulling money
off of,” he said. “SPLOST is
going to be great and money is
eventually going to have to
come into play.”
The exercise stations could
be installed during phase four,
as well as the splash pad.
The city would have to
request additional funding in
future SPLOST for the remain
der of the park; the pickle ball,
bocce ball, restroom and other
facilities, Bolz said.
Mayor Mike Eason told the
council that they needed to
start thinking about any possi
ble changes they wanted to
make to the plans.
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