{"id":191183,"date":"2026-05-13T12:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191183\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:59:26","slug":"reading-housing-authority-opens-oakbrook-recreation-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191183\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Housing Authority opens Oakbrook Recreation Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Reading Housing Authority has announced the official opening of its Oakbrook Recreation Park.<\/p>\n

The park will bring new outdoor recreation opportunities to residents of the authority\u2019s Oakbrook Homes and the broader community, officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are incredibly grateful to our partners at the city of Reading,\u201d Stacey Keppen, authority president and CEO, said in a statement. \u201cWithout their support, this project would have been delayed while additional funding was pursued through other channels.\u201d<\/p>\n

The $1.4 million upgrade is being fully funded by the city using federal community development block grant funds.<\/p>\n

Ground broken on baseball field upgrade project in Oakbrook<\/a><\/p>\n

Officials said the flagship feature \u2014 the modernized baseball field with dugouts, equipment storage, outfield and foul-line fencing, foul poles, an electronic scoreboard, an announcer\u2019s booth and accessible spectator seating \u2014 is now ready for use.<\/p>\n

The authority in partnership with Olivet Boys and Girls Club will host its first baseball game in the park on Thursday at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

The park\u2019s basketball court also received upgrades, including resurfacing and new bleachers in preparation for clinics and leagues.<\/p>\n

The park also includes mature trees and a new walking path, benches and picnic grove with three eight-seat tables and charcoal grills.<\/p>\n

Officials said a concession stand will be available in the coming weeks for sports event organizers to rent.<\/p>\n

The authority said it remains on track to complete the final phase of the project in fall.<\/p>\n

This will include a new playground with an area dedicated for use by the Patton Avenue Learning Center, an early childhood center operated on the premises by Opportunity House.<\/p>\n

The final phase also will include a pavilion and restroom facilities, made possible through the support of U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan.<\/p>\n

The authority said partner agencies are asked to consider delivering services and programming in the park for the benefit of residents of Oakbrook and the greater community.<\/p>\n

For more information, email occs@readingha.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reading Housing Authority has announced the official opening of its Oakbrook Recreation Park. The park will bring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,857,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-191183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-essential-reading","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}