{"id":398879,"date":"2026-07-15T04:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398879\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:24:44","slug":"greenville-county-leaders-share-design-concepts-for-new-oakland-park-in-simpsonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398879\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville County leaders share design concepts for new Oakland Park in Simpsonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; Greenville County is sharing early design ideas for a new park in Simpsonville, and leaders want to hear what residents think. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The park would stand on the property formerly known as Oakland Plantation on Adams Mill Road. The land has ties to Native American history, and officials say the project would be the county\u2019s first new park in more than 15 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">PREVIOUS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2023\/12\/05\/new-nature-park-possibly-coming-greenville-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New nature park possibly coming to Greenville County<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The county says the park is envisioned as a welcoming landscape with spaces for walking, relaxation and connecting with nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This spring, county leaders met with community members to hear how residents hope to use the space. Now, they\u2019re asking for more feedback as they present several design concepts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There are four chances to hear from county leaders and weigh in: <\/p>\n<p>Southside Park Picnic ShelterTuesday, July 14 | 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.Wednesday, July 15 | 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.Five Forks Library Tuesday, July 14 | 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.Wednesday, July 15 | 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with FOX Carolina. For more free content like this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\">download our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WHNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; Greenville County is sharing early design ideas for a new park in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[86231,160179,418,71615,160183,16458,7320,143,145,144,30694,160181,1833,154168,86228,160178,18891,160182,160180],"class_list":["post-398879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-fox-carolina-news","tag-greenville-county","tag-history","tag-input","tag-monday-new","tag-native-american","tag-news-today","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-park","tag-oakland-plantation","tag-park","tag-public-park","tag-sc","tag-simpsonville","tag-south-carolina","tag-todays-news","tag-upstate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}