NORTH BRUNSWICK — Renovations to Veterans Park are underway and “really moving along well.”
Councilman Carlo Socio said that the new softball field is coming along, the basketball courts are paved where the tennis courts are, the tennis courts have stone down and will get asphalt soon, the parking lots are cut out and the curbing is done.
“One blessing of the dry summer is that the project is moving along well ahead of schedule. We are very proud of it,” said Socio, council liaison to the Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee, during the Dec. 7 Township Council meeting.
He said the park is slated to open in the late spring.
Phase I of the nearly $9 million project includes a drop-off area that will circle the existing veterans monument; the rebuilding of the tennis courts and construction of two new basketball courts; and the inclusion of one softball field.
Phase II will include a new restroom and concession building, improvements to the playground equipment and landscaping.
The township also would like to make Roosevelt Avenue a public road and widen it with a bikeway and sidewalks.
The site requires remediation because of industrial waste that was dumped at the North Brunswick Township High School and park site decades ago; a refuse trucking business operated a property adjacent to the area on Roosevelt Avenue through the 1960s.
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