Without much of a notice, the bulldozers came to the west side of Williamsbridge Oval Park to break ground on the long-awaited skate park. A large patch of soil blankets the area once used for a dog run, with crews ready to spend until winter of next year to complete the project.<\/p>\n
But the council member who funded the project is planning a formal celebration. Councilman Andrew Cohen secured $750,000 in capital funding for the project in 2014, holding a news conference on the funding soon after. The price of the project eventually went up to $888,000. It was among the first major projects for Cohen representing Norwood. It\u2019s also a project that residents have asked for since 2004 when clergy leaders teamed with neighborhood kids to get a skate park in the area.<\/p>\n
The holdup stemmed largely from picking a contractor to perform the project. Parks had identified a bidder who eventually backed out. LC Construction Consulting, a Queens-based construction firm, finally agreed to construct the mini-arena, complete with steep banks, mounds and quarter pipes.<\/p>\n
Miles Burnett, a spokesman for Cohen, told the Norwood News <\/em>that a formal groundbreaking ceremony is expected on June 5 at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n Cohen has held groundbreaking ceremonies for other park projects in the past, notably a skate park in Van Cortlandt Park last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Without much of a notice, the bulldozers came to the west side of Williamsbridge Oval Park to break ground on the long-awaited skate park. A large patch of soil blankets the area once used for a dog run, with crews ready to spend until winter of next year to complete the project. But the council member who funded the project is planning a formal celebration. Councilman Andrew Cohen secured $750,000 in capital funding for the project in 2014, holding a news conference on the funding soon after. The price of the project eventually went up to $888,000. It was among the first major projects for Cohen representing Norwood. It\u2019s also a project that residents have asked for since 2004 when clergy leaders teamed with neighborhood kids to get a skate park in the area. The holdup stemmed largely from picking a contractor to perform the project. Parks had identified a bidder who eventually backed out. LC Construction Consulting, a Queens-based construction firm, finally agreed to construct the mini-arena, complete with steep banks, mounds and quarter pipes. Miles Burnett, a spokesman for Cohen, told the Norwood News that a formal groundbreaking ceremony is expected on June 5 at 11 a.m. Cohen has held groundbreaking ceremonies for other park projects in the past, notably a skate park in Van Cortlandt Park last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neighborhood-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardsonconsultants.com\/3400wayneavenue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardsonconsultants.com\/3400wayneavenue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardsonconsultants.com\/3400wayneavenue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardsonconsultants.com\/3400wayneavenue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardsonconsultants.com\/3400wayneavenue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/richardsonconsultants.com\/3400wayneavenue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/richardsonconsultants.com\/3400wayneavenue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardsonconsultants.com\/3400wayneavenue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardsonconsultants.com\/3400wayneavenue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardsonconsultants.com\/3400wayneavenue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardsonconsultants.com\/3400wayneavenue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}