July is National Park and Recreation Month, and what better place to celebrate what our parks and programs mean to us than Carrousel Plaza, in the heart of Golden Gate Park next to the Koret Children’s Quarter, where thousands of kids come each and every week to play, and adjacent to the Sharon Art Studio, where the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department offers some of the best art and recreational programming in the entire city.
This month, we are highlighting the importance of our parks and programs, which we cannot do without also acknowledging the tremendous support we are getting in an era when we can no longer do it alone.
A couple of weeks ago, we received a sizeable gift from Coca-Cola to help create new trails in Golden Gate Park and provide new, exciting recreation programs and equipment to kids all across the city.
On July 8, we celebrated a project that could not have been possible without the support of our friends at the California Department of Parks, who provided nearly a million dollars for this project alone and close to $50M in grants for projects throughout the park.
Golden Gate Park as a whole has been undergoing a renaissance, with close to a billion dollars being invested over the past ten years. New museums, a renovated Music Concourse, improved Polo Fields and new paving are just a few of the projects that have rejuvenated our iconic park.
In 2007, we cut the ribbon on the initial phase of this project, the renovation of the historic Children’s Playground.
This project included the replacement of the large asphalt plaza with integrally colored concrete, stone walls and stairs, a secure and screened trash/recycling storage area, landscape irrigation and planting, and site furnishings. The highlight of this project is, without a doubt, the collection of tiles created by the staff and members of the Sharon Art Studio.
A third phase of the project will include the renovation of the old barn area, where we plan to one day have a family-friendly recreational space perfect for birthday parties and other rentals.
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