Five Leamington parks getting new playgrounds

LEAMINGTON — Five Leamington neighbourhood park playgrounds are going to be getting much-needed facelifts in the spring of 2022.

In December, Leamington Council approved the concepts and budget for Scout Memorial, Kinsmen Baseball Park, Eastside Park, Henry Park and Pearl Park to receive the upgrades.

Leamington has 14 neighbourhood parks plus Seacliff and Mersea Parks.

The new playground at Eastside Park will look like this.

Public Works Manager Ken Brown told council at the meeting that these five parks would leave just Wilhelm, Mersea and Rick Atkin Park as the remaining parks needing a playground upgrade.

Budgets were set at between $75,000 and $85,000 per playground and were approved as such.

Requests for Proposal were issued and council’s December vote awarded the job to five different suppliers.

The new playground at Henry Park will look like this.

Scout Memorial Park, off St. Joseph Street, will have a playground supplied by Henderson Recreation Equipment.

The Kinsmen Baseball playground will receive equipment supplied by Open Space Solutions.

The Eastside Park upgrade was awarded to Blue Imp Recreation.

The new playground at Pearl Park will look like this.

Henry Park upgrades will be done by ABC Recreation and Pearl Street Park will be supplied by Park N Play.

Brown said all five playgrounds were treated separately and that five different suppliers getting the nod was a coincidence.

Mayor Hilda MacDonald thought awarding five different companies could prove to be beneficial.

The new playground at Scout Memorial Park will look like this.

“This will give each park its own identity,” she said. “I love these designs.”

You can have your say on these designs by visiting letstalkleamington. com.

The new playground at the Kinsmen Baseball diamonds will look like this.