When Heritage Park was purchased in 2011, a grant from the Oregon Lottery Commission was obtained to pay for the cost of the land. As a requirement of that grant, the City was asked to design a park plan, showing future plantings and amenities. It was suggested to us that a playground or play structure on the plan would be of help in obtaining the grant, so that is what the plan showed.
Fast forward twelve years and the City still has not had the funds to provide the play structure. (The one in our other park cost over $30,000!)
However, good fortune smiled on Rivergrove when the Lake Oswego School District offered us--free of charge--the beautiful play structure from River Grove Elementary, the school that is being torn down and rebuilt. All that’s required is for Rivergrove to fund the play structure's disassembly, transportation, and reassembly. And as it happens, we now have over $82,000 in grant money that will easily cover those expenses and others.
This play structure, built by the same company as our original play structure, is newer than the one in Lloyd Minor Park. Council and the Planning Commission were unanimously in favor of acceptance of this gift.