Jacksonville’s Success Park opened Tuesday following a month postpone due to heavy rain and over a year of construction.
The grand opening attracted an intimate crowd of city children, residents and officials.
The ceremony opened with tunes from Edward Waters College’s Triple Threat Drumline accompanied by Mayor Alvin Brown, EWC President Nat Glover and Irvin Cohen, director of New Town Success Zone. They marched down Pearce West Street signaling the park’s completion.
Brown said the park brings life back to the community.
“I am very proud,” he said. “The park really shows a true power of partnership between the public and private sector where you have the business community to invest along with President Glover.”
Success Park provides a safe place for children to play in Jacksonville’s New Ton community. PeDro Cohen, the Success Zone’s director, said a safe place for children to play was one of the needs the New Town community identified during a health survey in 2010. read more…
