{"id":33265,"date":"2018-02-26T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-plans-grand-reopening-of-hogan-park\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T15:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T23:58:22","slug":"kent-plans-grand-reopening-of-hogan-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-plans-grand-reopening-of-hogan-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent plans Grand Reopening of Hogan Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent city officials will celebrate the Grand Reopening of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Hogan+Park\/@47.3847327,-122.2593357,2640m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x29dd52bae0dc9983!8m2!3d47.3847327!4d-122.2593357\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\">Hogan Park at Russell Road<\/a> from 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Saturday, March 10.<\/p>\n<p>The city converted the main field at the park, 24400 Russell Road, to synthetic turf from grass for year-round use.<\/p>\n<p>Families, athletes and park lovers can check out the all-weather turf. Mayor Dana Ralph will lead the ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by demonstrations of the multiple sports that will be playable at the field. Previously a baseball and softball field, now in addition to those sports soccer, flag football, rugby and lacrosse can all be played at the park.<\/p>\n<p>The city paid for the project with $962,000 from the parks capital improvement fund (mostly from the real estate excise tax of 0.50 percent on all property sales), a $750,000 grant from the state Recreation and Conservation Office and a $25,000 donation from the Kent Lions Club. The city&rsquo;s capital fund also will cover the state sales tax of about $173,000 on the contract to Snohomish-based Premier Field Development.<\/p>\n<p>Crews installed a pad under the turf at a cost of about $183,000 to enhance player safety and increase the life-cycle of the field.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Field Development has installed numerous synthetic turf fields across the state, including projects at Kentridge and Kentwood high schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New synthetic turf replaces grass field <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":33337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33265"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}