Basketball court relocation and improvement – Friends And Neighbors (FANS) of Washington Park

Project lead Brian Wethington – Brian.Wethington@denvergov.org

Mr. Wethington presented to the FANS public meeting on Wednesday Oct. 12, 2016. He indicated that $200,000 has been acquired to build new basketball courts where the horseshoe pits now stand near Downing Street and Kentucky. $250,000 is needed for the project. Presently there were no plans to tear up the existing courts which would be abandon. FANS is expressing a firm opinion that the project should include removal of any abandon asphalt and the area restored to grass.

Friends and Neighbors of Washington Park (FANS) invites you to join us for our annual Denver City Park Greenhouse Tour!

Wednesday, May 8th, 2019, 6 – 7 pm

Denver Parks are famous for their lovely flower gardens. Did you ever wonder where all those flowers come from?

Now is your chance to tour the greenhouses where the Denver Parks and Recreation Department grows all of their flowers.

The City Park Greenhouse serves as Denver Parks and Recreation’s horticultural core by growing and distributing landscape bedding plants, shrubs, and other ornamental plants for Denver park districts and other city agencies and facilities. They propagate approximately 250,000 annuals, perennials, shrubs, and stock plants. The greenhouse produces flowers for over 500 individual beds comprising roughly 5 acres of park land throughout the city.

Plants grown in the greenhouse are distributed throughout the city on May 15th. We time our tour so everyone can see the plants as mature as possible prior to distribution.