Park View, D.C.

The Park View athletic field has been offline since June 20, 2019.

Yesterday, I received word from the Department of General Services (DGS) that the athletic field at the Park View Recreation Center will be repaired in the Spring of 2020 due to the availability of FY20 funding.

The field has been unavailable for sports use since June 20, 2019, when the DGS sent out notice that it was one of 13 fields that had failed their annual G-MAX testing.

While DGS had initially planned to move quickly with the repairs, a review of the scope of work needed for the field to be brought into compliance resulted in a need to secure funding. The reason DGS is waiting until the spring to undertake repairs is due to planning around weather.

This news actually comes at a good time, as the Park View UNC is hosting a Community Forum on the Safety of Playgrounds and Artificial Turf Fields in DC, sponsored by the Park View UNC and DC Safe Healthy Playing Fields at the Park View Rec Center on Wednesday, October 2nd, at 7 pm. More information on the event can be found here.

The athletic field at the Park View Recreation Center.

This entry was posted on October 1, 2019 at 10:05 am and is filed under Parks and Green spaces, Restoration repair and maintenance. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.

Tags: athletic fields, Park View Rec Center, repair