{"id":133359,"date":"2026-07-22T12:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/133359\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:12:13","slug":"skate-park-construction-in-warsaw-could-be-complete-by-end-of-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/133359\/","title":{"rendered":"Skate park construction in Warsaw could be complete by end of September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnowwarsaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-22-061537.png\" data-caption=\"Wood that will be used for stakes is seen in front of a dirt pile that will be part of a new skate park at Richardson-Dubois Park on Market Street in Warsaw on Tuesday. News Now Warsaw photo by Dan Spalding.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"419\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-22-061537-696x419.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot 2026-07-22 061537\"\/><\/a>Wood that will be used for stakes is seen in front of a dirt pile that will be part of a new skate park at Richardson-Dubois Park on Market Street in Warsaw on Tuesday. News Now Warsaw photo by Dan Spalding.<br \/>\nBy Dan Spalding<br \/>News Now Warsaw<\/p>\n<p>WARSAW \u2014 Construction of a new skate park on Market Street in Warsaw has begun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warsaw Parks Superintendent Larry Plummer said a sub-base is already in place and a mound of dirt needed to support part of the concrete bowl design is visible from the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you go by, you can see on the south, you can see the four-foot wall that\u2019s \u2026 starting to take shape so we\u2019re excited about it,\u201d Plummer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe signage has been ordered and we\u2019re just excited for opening day, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Construction on the west end of Richardson-Dubois Park is expected to cost about $465,000 and the addition of a parking lot, lights, cameras and other amenities will bring the total to about $550,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Work should be complete by the end of September, ensuring that skaters will be able to try it out before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The future park will replace an existing one in Boggs Industrial Park on the city\u2019s west side.<\/p>\n<p>The city has been seeking to move the park to a more central location for several years.<\/p>\n<p>The existing park opened upward of 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, Plummer said the park\u2019s grand opening (no date yet) will include the unveiling of a sign honoring Liz Frazier, who is the namesake of the girls softball field previously located on that spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wood that will be used for stakes is seen in front of a dirt pile that will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[967,64812,64813,64814,64815,182,181],"class_list":["post-133359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-construction","tag-larry-plummer","tag-market-street","tag-new-skate-park","tag-parks-superintendent","tag-poland","tag-warsaw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}