Progress Humming On ADA-Compliant Playground At Watsessing Park – Bloomfield, NJ Patch

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County’s first “all-access playground” has a tentative opening date: July 24.

Last week, Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. offered a quick update about progress at Watsessing Park in Bloomfield and East Orange, which is undergoing a $1.9 million renovation with a new community center and on-site parking lot.

As part of the facelift, the park will also get an ADA-compliant playground, which is being designed for children of all physical abilities. The new playground will include swings, bridges and slides, as well as on-site parking to help with transportation and access, county officials previously said.

“Work continues to install the apparatus at the new, all-access playground in Watsessing Park,” DiVincenzo wrote Monday. “The opening will be July 24.”

Comito Associates engineers from Newark was awarded a $145,000 contract to design the Watsessing Park community center building. The Shauger Group, Inc. from East Orange was awarded a publicly bid contract for $1,982,580 to perform the construction work. Remington & Vernick Engineers from Secaucus was awarded a $65,000 contract to design the all-access playground.

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