While the Washington Parks and Recreation Department seeks to add the finishing touches on the city’s Wellness Park by this spring, the city looks forward to other projects in the next few years.

The city council held a public hearing and approved a resolution considering the fiscal year 2022-2026 capital improvements plan, which among other city projects include a pickleball/tennis court renovation for fiscal year 2022, phase two of the Wellness Park in fiscal year 2025 which would include a permanent pond and soccer complex improvements, and upgrades to Sunset Park in the foreseeable future. Parks Superintendent Nick Pacha points out a more imminent project, “The city acquired an old house and tore it down which we called the Jones property and that is between Madison Park and the new city hall/police/fire station. So it currently just has a garage on it, that will be moved off of there within the next month or so and then the plan is to expand Madison Park there to make a little, kind of a pocket park there.”

Pacha says they are currently in the design phase, and he expects the project to be completed sometime this summer or fall.