{"id":149673,"date":"2026-02-03T22:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149673\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:31:07","slug":"allen-to-spend-nearly-1m-on-new-playgrounds-shade-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149673\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen to spend nearly $1M on new playgrounds, shade structures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo Allen parks are slated to receive upgrades after Allen City Council<\/a> approved spending nearly $1M at a Jan. 28 meeting.<\/a><\/p>\n

Both Quail Run Park<\/a> and Bradford Crossing Park<\/a> will get new playgrounds and shade structures.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

The city will spend $399,347 with WeBuildFun, Inc. for Quail Run Park improvements and $600,000 for Bradford Crossing Park improvements, with funding coming from the Allen Community Development Corporation, per city documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The respective companies are responsible for the entire renovation process at each playground, including:<\/p>\n

Demolition of the existing playgroundGradingA new drainage systemSubsurface establishmentPlayground designInstallationThe context <\/p>\n

The typical lifespan of public playground equipment ranges from 15-20 years, per city documents. The playground at Quail Run Park was installed in 2005 and the playground at Bradford Crossing Park was installed in 2004.<\/p>\n

The Parks and Recreation Department has multiple employees who are Certified Playground Safety Inspectors who perform regular inspections of playgrounds, city documents started.<\/p>\n

These inspections and the guidelines established by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission<\/a> are the most significant factors used in determining the need for playground equipment replacement.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the Allen Parks and Recreation Department, visit www.lifeinallen.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Allen parks are slated to receive upgrades after Allen City Council approved spending nearly $1M at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[55589,55590,62329,62328,1604,62333,62330,62332,62331,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-149673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-allen-city-council","tag-allen-news","tag-allen-park-upgrades","tag-allen-parks-and-recreation","tag-community-impact","tag-free-things-to-do-in-allen","tag-new-playgrounds-allen","tag-parks-near-allen","tag-parks-near-mckinney","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}