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IMAGINE YOUR PARKS 2
Implementing BREC’s Capital Construction Plan
In 2004, BREC launched the Imagine Your Parks (IYP) strategic/master plan to transform what had become an aging, neighborhood- based system of parks and special use facilities into one that now boasts twelve community parks, six dog parks, Liberty Lagoon Water Park, skate parks, fishing ponds, new conservation areas, improved playgrounds, splash pads, a growing trails system and two mobile playground units. The plan also included renovations to more than 150 neighborhood parks and special use facilities across the state’s largest parish (county), including the Baton Rouge Art Gallery, Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo, Botanic Gardens, Cohn Arboretum, Independence Park Theatre, Farr Park Equestrian Center, golf courses, Highland Road Observatory and Magnolia Mound Historic House.
In 2014 BREC updated its strategic/master plan and, since then, included transformative projects not yet requested by the public, nor envisioned in 2014. BREC is nearing the completion of the second Imagine Your Parks plan, and the start of a lengthy planning process for the third iteration in 2023. In the first Imagine Your Parks plan, more than 120 large scale projects were completed, including the creation of the twelve large community parks. From 2015-2020, 193 projects of varying size and scope have been completed.
2022 marked the 8th year of the Imagine Your Parks 2 strategic plan and BREC’s Planning and Engineering team completed 31 capital construction projects while managing a toal of 82 projects either in the planning, design or construction stage. Following is a list those projects which vary in size and scope from neighborhood parks and playgrounds to conservation areas, recreation centers, primitive trails, pollinator gardens and various signage projects.
Projects in Master Plan or Design (Through End of Year)
• Airline Highway Park - Phase 1 Design Development & Construction Documents
• Airline Highway Park - Safe House
• Anna T. Jordan Community Park - Playground Renovation
• Bluebonnet Swamp - Develop updated Master Plan
• BREC Greenways - Memorial to Spanish Town Road Park
• BREC Greenways - Scotlandville Parkway to Downtown (CMAQ - FHWA TAP Grant)
• BREC Greenways - Ward Creek extension behind OLOL/Burden
• Cedarcrest Park - Site Improvements
• Central Sports Park - CSP Concession Bldg Renovations and Canopies Over Field Bleachers (partially funded by State Capital Outlay)
• City-Brooks Community Park - Golf Cart Paths Phase 2
• Memorial Stadium - Safe Room, Design Starting in
• Expressway Park - Master Plan and Phase 1
Improvements DOTD Project 107 2022
• Farr Park - Site Drainage Phase 2
• Greenways - HL Mansions to Starring
• Greenways - Perkins Road to Paulette Drive
• Greenwood Com Park - $4.7M LWI Grant: Cypress Bayou Green Infrastructure at Greenwood Park
• Hartley/Vey Sports Park at Oak Villa - Maintenance Facility
• Highland Road Community Park - Trail Interpretive Signage
• Independence Community Park - Play-4-All Universal Playground
• Madison Park - Site Improvements
• Meadow & Gentilly Court - School in the park EBRPSS Partnership
• Milton Womack Park - Womack Office Renovation Design
• New Park - Erie Park: Construction Documents - Partnership with Build BR
• Palomino Drive Park - Palomino Master Plan Design
• Parklawn Park - Site Improvements
• Perkins Community Park - Develop Master Plan
• Santa Maria Park - Clubhouse Renovations
• Scotlandville Parkway - Scotlandville Bridge Replacement
• Scotlandville Parkway - Scotlandville Pkwy Phase 1 Greenway (FHWA TAP Grant)
• Webb Memorial Park - Clubhouse Assessment & Improvements
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