Gainesville to celebrate Tom Petty Park renovations
Press release from the City of Gainesville
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — City of Gainesville leaders invite all neighbors to a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the completion of renovations to Tom Petty Park.
When: 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. on Sat., June 6
Where: Tom Petty Park, 501 NE 16th Ave.
Improvements to the municipal park include eight new pickleball courts, seating areas, shade canopies, a multiuse trail and trail lighting, landscaping, a concessions and storage building, restrooms, a Bee City Gainesville pollinator garden, a stormwater pond, a solar lighting system above the resurfaced parking lot, and LED lighting for the pickleball and tennis courts, multipurpose field, and the softball/baseball fields.
Tom Petty Park renovations, at a total cost of $2.6 million, were fully funded through the voter-approved Wild Spaces & Public Places half-cent sales tax.
2.6 million could have been used toward the 12 million budget deficit.
I like many other Rural Alachua County Residents still live on a barely maintained DIRT ROAD, yet Gainesville controlling Money focuses on a City as it ignores its Core that work there but have to live outside city because of Cost of Living, as we pay for more Improvements to already paved Roads and Improvements to already existing Parks as They Ignore the Roads We The People Drive on and Live on in Rural Alachua County
I don’t play golf or tennis…that’s for rich folks…
you think this is a county club?
Now I know why the city has a $12 million budget deficit …
We could use a public shooting range though so we can practice our 2nd Ammendment rights…that’s a necessary!
Lock your car, hold that wallet tight and be careful. Nothing good happens in NE or SE Gainesville day or night.
My road in rural Alachua is still unpaved but improvements to existing structures over rides the common citizen