Team Towtaid - Friends of Towtaid Park -

04/17/2022

Hey all, I meant to take a picture. My son and I drove past the park and the entire basketball/handball and pickle ball court and parking lot. It is completely torn up and there is a dirt lot there right now. So excited to see the quick progress!

04/12/2022

Hey all! Exciting news. I shared the post yesterday about Towtaid Oark having work done and being closed. Here is what is anticipated to happen there:

Work to be done at Towtaid 2022

The whole basketball 🏀 court area is getting ripped out and redone. When it’s done there will be a basketball court, wall ball, pickle ball courts too! The will be adding fencing, sidewalks and fixing the parking lot.

The Shared Winter Streets grant is for the sidewalks and the DCR grant is for the basketball court area and parking lot. Between the playground put in previously and the work completed from these two grants, it will be like a whole new park and a great place for our kids to play!

Thanks to Leicester, MA Parks and Recreation for continuing the project and doing the work I requested years ago! Exciting to see this outcome!

08/04/2021

04/26/2021

Hey all! I have had some great feedback about the park. If you have anything that you see which could be done there, please reach out.

There is more planned for the park such as sidewalks from the parking lot to the playground and much more!

02/18/2021

Follow-up from tonight's Park and Rec meeting (these were my notes as I understood what was said):
- The town has worked hard to get grants to do work at Towtaid Park. There is a "Shared Winter Streets" grant (est. $140K) that will create sidewalks, curbs, loom, etc. It will be going out to bid and has to be completed by the end of May.
- There is another grant "Parks Grant", that was $66K. This will be for the basketball and handball courts as well as fencing around the park. This one does not begin to see actual funding until the close of FY21. We would see construction on this estimated July 2022.
- KABOOM Grant - this was fulfilled with the new playground.
- There is an annual $25K that is already appropriated (and I believe ear-marked) to the town by the Cultivate agreement.
That was the update for Towtaid Park! We have seen huge improvements in that park and the plans to make it even better are exciting to watch. Thank you to the people that started working on this project initially, thank you to those that have cleaned up the park with me over the years, and thank you to the people that have worked alongside and continued to make improvements to the park for the community of Leicester!

02/11/2021

12/04/2020

11/30/2020

Good morning all! I was able to get down to the park to take a picture of the new playground. I know it’s been a little cold, but get your kids over there to play!