{"id":4035,"date":"2015-03-23T05:29:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T09:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2015-03-22T17:44:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T21:44:47","slug":"brick-planning-new-playgrounds-dog-park-for-angela-hibbard-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/03\/brick-planning-new-playgrounds-dog-park-for-angela-hibbard-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuild of Angela Hibbard Park to Include Playgrounds, Dog Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2745\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/husky_running.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2745\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/husky_running-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"A dog running in a park. (Credit: Randi Hausken\/Flickr)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/husky_running-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/husky_running-290x195.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dog running in a park. (Credit: Randi Hausken\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick officials are planning large-scale improvements to Angela Hibbard Park.<\/p>\n<p>The township council went out to bid last week on a plan to effectively rebuild the park with a new playground for children ages 2-5, a second playground for children ages 6-12, a basketball court, a pickleball court, and two dog parks \u2013 one for small dogs and one for large dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The project will also include a new perimeter walking trail, plus irrigation and drainage work, Councilwoman Andrea Zapcic said.<\/p>\n<p>The improvements to the park, which is located on Drum Point Road just north of the intersection with Mandalay Road, are estimated to cost about $1 million, Zapcic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be the smallest of the three parks we\u2019ll be doing this year,\u201d Zapcic said.<\/p>\n<p>The other parks set to be redone this year are Colorado Park and Lake Riviera Park. The township council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/02\/brick-officials-reject-1-3m-price-for-colorado-park-rebuild\/\">recently rejected bids<\/a> for the Colorado Park project after they came in too high, officials said. The township is now soliciting bids again for work at that park under modified bid specifications.<\/p>\n<p>It usually takes about four months between bidding and when the work begins on a project such as a park, said Business Administrator Joanne Bergin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/03\/brick-planning-new-playgrounds-dog-park-for-angela-hibbard-park\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick officials are planning large-scale improvements to Angela Hibbard Park. The township council went out to bid last week on a plan to effectively rebuild the park with a new playground for children ages 2-5, a second playground for children ages 6-12, a basketball court, a pickleball court, and two dog parks \u2013 one for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[775,24],"class_list":["post-4035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-angela-hibbard-park","tag-brick-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/husky_running.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-135","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}