{"id":9544,"date":"2016-10-20T00:23:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2016-10-20T00:24:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T04:24:37","slug":"brick-plans-reconstruction-of-birchwood-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/10\/brick-plans-reconstruction-of-birchwood-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Plans Reconstruction of Birchwood Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9545\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/birchwood_park_project.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9545\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/birchwood_park_project-1024x783.jpg\" alt=\"A rendering of the Birchwood Park reconstruction project. (Credit: Township of Brick)\" width=\"618\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/birchwood_park_project-1024x783.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/birchwood_park_project-400x306.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/birchwood_park_project-768x587.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of the Birchwood Park reconstruction project. (Credit: Township of Brick)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Birchwood Park, located in the neighborhood that bears the same name, will be the next township park to be rebuilt and upgraded with modern equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The administration of Mayor John Ducey has made park improvements a priority over the last several years, and has already completed projects at numerous other parks in town. For Birchwood Park, the cost of the project was included in this year\u2019s capital budget, and the township is currently seeking grants from the state Department of Environmental Protection to help defray the cost, said Business Administrator Joanne Bergin.<\/p>\n<p>Ducey said the project will include the construction of two new playgrounds \u2013 one for children ages 2-5 and one for ages 6-12 \u2013 as well as two basketball courts, a multipurpose field, a gazebo and a walking track. The reconstruction also includes new safety surfaces, irrigation, lighting and security cameras.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been estimated to cost approximately $1.2 million. A rendering of the project is shown in the image included in this article. The park is located off Ashwood Drive, behind Warren H. Wolf Elementary School.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/10\/brick-plans-reconstruction-of-birchwood-park\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birchwood Park, located in the neighborhood that bears the same name, will be the next township park to be rebuilt and upgraded with modern equipment. The administration of Mayor John Ducey has made park improvements a priority over the last several years, and has already completed projects at numerous other parks in town. For Birchwood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":true,"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":[1270,24],"class_list":["post-9544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-birchwood-park","tag-brick-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/birchwood_park_project.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2tW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544","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=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}