WATCH THE MOVIE
Children enjoy the new playground at San Francisco’s Balboa Park. Below: Young dancers in traditional Mexican dress celebrate the opening of the new park.
OPEN FOR PLEASURE
It’s two down and one to go for The Trust for Public Land’s current effort to rebuild three aging San Francisco parks. In August, project partners from the city’s Recreation and Park Department joined TPL donors and local residents to celebrate the reopening of Balboa Park, which serves a diverse neighborhood on the city’s south side. Hundreds of happy children and parents—many of whom helped plan the
park upgrades through a participatory design process—attended the ribbon-cutting, tested the equipment in the refurbished playground, ate barbecue in the new picnic area, toured the resur- faced tennis courts, explored the new walking paths, and enjoyed a performance by young dancers in traditional Mexican dress. “The important piece of this project is that the design of
the park comes from us, the families and residents of this com- munity,” said local resident David Mauroff, who was active in the planning effort. Wherever The Trust for Public Land works, staff members
are never happier than when they can open a new or renovated park, playground, or garden. In San Francisco, Balboa Park’s $3.5 million renovation follows the reopening last year of Hayes Valley Playground on the edge of downtown. The renovation of Boeddeker Park in the hard-bitten Tenderloin moves into high gear this fall. TPL’s work in San Francisco has been supported by generous foundation support and lead donations from five companies based there: Banana Republic, Levi’s, McKesson, PG&E, and Wells Fargo. In Denver, TPL recently helped cut the ribbon at New Free-
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dom Park in the East Colfax neighborhood. Many park neigh- bors are immigrants from war-torn counties—“new freedom”
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