Aug 20
Here is your regular update on the $20 millon dollar project renovating the park and recreation center in the middle of the Portola. The Planet took a walk down to the onsite offices and did the usual pleading and begging to get a peak inside the building. To our surprise, a hard hat was slapped …
Jun 28
Work continues at the Palega Playground and Recreation Center. The project is estimated for completion around March 2013. The past month has seen a monumental challenge to the renovation of the main recreation center building. It is getting a brand new basement, heating system and sports floor. The upgrades however required that the existing basement be …
May 04
Getting this CAT out of a tough spot will require a little more than a few hisses and temptations of catnip. This afternoon, while working on clearing the area around the basement of the Palega Park recreation center, one of the CAT excavators became stuck. The ground underneath the machine, which had held up fine …
May 02
The renovation at Palega Park is well into the serious earth moving phase. Every day for the past week, big machines have been digging, lifting, cutting, scraping and rebuilding the park land. The amount of earth movement is amazing. The main building is also currently undergoing a process to remove all the nasty substances like asbestos. …
Apr 19
This morning my whole family decided to join many others who walk around Palega Park every day for a bit of fresh air and exercise. The park is undergoing massive renovations, and as we watched the big CATs slowly level earth across the entire park, we saw many new gopher holes appear. Poor guys are having …
Apr 16
Well we have the first evidence that before improvements can be made to Palega Park, there must be some destruction. This week the CATs moved in and they are happily digging up the park. I took a quick walk this morning and snapped some photos of the contractors in action.
Mar 27
It poured with rain last week when San Francisco Park representatives, our local supervisor David Campos and a small selection of weather faring locals came together to kick off the 21 million dollars worth of park improvements. But the weather didn’t dampen (groan) the event and there was a big round of applause as we …
Mar 05
My four year old son cannot wait. We live right next to the large Palega Park right in the middle of the lower part of Portola. Over the past four years the city has been working on a plan to upgrade and improve the entire park and work finally starts on Wednesday 14th march 2012. …