2001 Newsroom Archive

Robla Community Park Groundbreaking
Wednesday, October 3, 2001, 5:45 p.m., 700 Block of Bell Avenue

Sacramento California, October 1, 2001 - After years of planning a groundbreaking ceremony will take place this Wednesday afternoon for the new Robla Community Park. The 18.5-acre park, located on Bell Avenue at Taylor Street in North Sacramento, will provide much needed community service especially to residents.

"We've been waiting a long, long time for this to happen," said District 2 Councilmember Sandy Sheedy. "Our community is anxious to begin using all the amenities that this park will have to offer. Children can play sports in the confines of their own community park, not in sand lots, streets, or parks far away from their community." The Department of Parks and Recreation expects the park to be open in the spring of 2002.

The first phase of Robla Community Park construction will include a baseball field, soccer fields, children's playground, group picnic area, automatic irrigation system, landscape and turf planting, concrete walkways, street frontage and sidewalk improvements, and 40-car parking lot. Construction costs for the first phase of Robla Community Park will be $1.4 million.

Future phases of the park's development will include additional children's play areas, wetland area, neighborhood activity center, swimming pool, basketball courts, volleyball court, tennis courts, jogging trail, fitness stations, and a concession building.