FOLLOWUP: Here’s when work will start on Westcrest Park’s long-closed play area

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(Reader photo by Jon from May 2021)

With work starting on the Lincoln Park South Play Area replacement, we asked Seattle Parks about the schedule for Westcrest Park, since that play-area replacement is part of the same contract awarded to LW Sundstrom. Today we got the reply: Work at Westcrest Park – where the play structure was closed for safety concerns in May 2021 – is expected to begin in March. It’s a narrower scope than Lincoln Park, so both are expected to be finished “approximately (in) June,” according to Parks spokesperson Karen O’Connor.

Kyle January 17, 2024 (1:02 pm)

Thank you for the update wsb!

Neighbor January 17, 2024 (5:13 pm)

June of what year?

KB1000 January 17, 2024 (5:21 pm)

So….2026? LOL. Thanks for the update. What a sad state of affairs that this has taken so long but great to see it finally getting done. Well, hopefully done.

HP family January 17, 2024 (10:45 pm)

When the new westcrest park was built they ran out of funding and just moved the play structure.it surprisingly laster longer than the predicted 3 years that the parks communicated. My kids loved playing on the wooden structure at both the old and the current location. Hope the younger kids get a really cool playscape at both westcrest and south Lincoln.

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