Category Overview
Local Parks grants help protect these symbols of vibrant communities, providing places for families to gather and play and promoting a healthy and active lifestyle in an era when people spend increasing amounts of their time inside. The WWRP is the largest source of local parks funding in Washington, helping communities fund the acquisition, development, and renovation of vital recreation areas and green spaces.
Project Highlights
The City of Bremerton used this grant to renovate Warren Avenue Park which included the following improvements: converted gravel parking lot to a paved parking lot with accessible parking, installed accessible pathways to access all park amenities, new accessible restroom, new accessible playground, new shelter, new fencing, new retaining walls, replaced wood playfield lights with metal poles and LED lights, replaced old backstop with a smaller portable one more appropriate for field use, installed new utilities, irrigation and landscaping.