Good news for people who like green spaces - The N.C Parks and Rec Trust Fund announced its grant recipients this week, and two of them are Hillsborough projects.
Fairview Park received a $500,000 matching grant from the fund, which allows them to build the entire planned Phase I of the $1.2 million project. The exact look of the park was in limbo for several months, as local funds were several hundred thousand dollars short of what was needed to construct the park expansion with the full scale of amenities.
The groundbreaking date can best be described as "this fall"; some details are still being worked out. Hopefully I'll have more by the next publication.
Phase II of Hillsborough's Riverwalk was also awarded some $392,000. That project will connect Gold Park to downtown Hillsborough along the Eno River. Between these two projects, Gold Park (opened this spring), Cedar Grove Park (ditto) and the Eurosport soccer complex (this week), northern Orange County is going from "0 to 60" in park-building pretty quickly.
Also coming this week, I'll explore some combination of hospital impact numbers, town developments in the courts, rail station planning and parking studies.
See what ended up on The News of Orange County's cutting room floor.
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