$320K makeover planned for Greenfield's Four Mile Run Playground

Four Mile Run Playground in Pittsburgh’s Greenfield neighborhood could receive a $320,000 makeover this summer.

The project has been in the works for about two years, said City Councilwoman Barb Warwick, D-Greenfield.

Carnegie Mellon University has committed $250,000 for the project. Warwick is sponsoring legislation to use funding from the scrapped portion of the Mon-Oakland connector project and from her district’s neighborhood needs fund to cover the remaining costs.

The proposed legislation is expected to be voted on next week.

Warwick said the Department of Public Works has been meeting with people in the community, including local children, to work out a playground design.

“The equipment is quite old and the benches are beat down and rusty,” Warwick said.

The old benches and outdated playground equipment would be replaced, with work starting as soon as this summer.

Warwick said she also is looking for cash to fund “much-needed renovations” at Hazelwood’s Lewis Playground.

This comes after officials last month approved plans to fund a new playground in the Lincoln Place neighborhood and allocate $1 million for improvements at the Burgwin Recreation Center using cash that had initially been earmarked for the scrapped Mon-Oakland connector shuttle project.

The city also is planning a nearly $1.3 million renovation at Schenley Park’s Anderson Playground, and a $5 million renovation is expected to bring a new playground, community garden and other improvements to Sheraden Park.