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The Town of Fishers is at work to build two places for the citizens to play.
While a plan for a new park with several features and attractions is in the works, construction of a “pocket park” on 116th Street in downtown Fishers is already underway.
The small park located near the storefronts that include Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt, 8760 E. 116th St., is on target to be completed in mid-to-late July, according to Maura Leon-Barber, Town of Fishers director of public relations.
What has been described as a temporary park, the pocket park will use materials that can be moved.
Leon-Barber said the park is being built by the town with an additional contractor, Shane Landscaping.
While the teeny-tiny park is being ushered toward completion, a bigger project is on the horizon in Geist.
In the works is a park at Cyntheanne Road and East 101st Street being designed by Rundell Ernstberger Associates and A&F Engineering, who discussed and presented plans for the park at the June 18 Fishers Town Council meeting.
Councilor Pete Peterson said designers weren’t limited in different ideas, and the plan may change after feedback was given at the June 18 meeting.
He said the council hasn’t given ultimate approval on what all will be included in the park.
Currently in the preliminary design are a sledding hill, zip line and a progressive bike course.
“I think what we’ve asked for during the design and the selection process is that we want this to be a different park than what we’ve had before,” Peterson said. “We want it to be an active park, but we don’t want it to be a sports field active park. That was the general direction that the council gave those designers, and other than that we gave them free rule, free reign.”
The first phase of the project has a cost of $3.25 million.
Peterson said he is pushing for the park to be usable throughout all four seasons of the year from its opening, if possible.