Getting a playground installed in a neighborhood

First you need land. Do you have land? Second, you need to talk to BREC. Third, you need to come up with an assload of money. The new playgrounds are not cheap.

Just a question, have you seen the current budgets of the city and state?

The nice playgrounds that have been built in the last few years were done so on existing BREC sites and largely funded by folks in the neighborhoods.

If you go to those parks you can find the companies that built them on the equipment. Good luck.

It's actually going to be for a common area in a neighborhood, which will be paid for by the HOA.

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It's actually going to be for a common area in a neighborhood, which will be paid for by the HOA.

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That's a great start. Land is the hardest thing. The newer playgrounds are awesome. They all have badges so you can tell who supplied and built them.

Not kidding at all. Check with your insurer before you even think about this.

My last neighborhood had a pool and tennis court in a gated and fenced area. You would think a pool would be the highest liability structure possible. We bought a commercial swing-set/slide/playground thing and put it inside the fence. Thinking that random people not having access would protect us... Our insurer saw the thing and almost doubled our rates. Needless to say, the thing was gone with the quickness.

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Getting a playground installed in an neighborhood
It's actually going to be for a common area in a neighborhood, which will be paid for by the HOA.

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I'm guessing you'd have a hard time getting someone to give you a grant for a playground in a subdivision with a HOA unless you opened it to the public and invited others in to use it.

Thanks my frat brother.

on a more serious note....i assume you have a HOA? Make sure you put a aside for up keep. Repairs...lawn maintenance...etc

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Thanks my frat brother.

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Gay

I deal with this on a community level. Get several catalogs from different quality playground equipment manufactures. Thumb thru the catalogs and have a committee come up with a list of items they want the playground to include. Begin thinking about rules of the park.

Draw a master plan which can be a rough sketch/layout to scale of all the items. 10 year old kids, 5 year old kids and toddlers need different equipment and which needs to be separated. The manufacturer can help with the layout.

Prioritize the list and talk to the manufacture about material prices and a contractor for instillation prices. Ball park prices are good enough at this point.

Determine your budget for Phase 1, get good prices and begin construction on the items you can afford. Include in the budget yearly maintenance and insurance cost.

As time goes on, and the budget allows begin Phase 2 for additional items on the list. Phase 3 & 4 to follow later.

I work with budgets from $10k to $1,000,000.

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Check with your insurer before you even think about this

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We have a few parks around us with legit skate parks inside. concrete ramps and shite. I have no idea how they get anyone to insure that.