Mobile opens new playground with unique design to help youth fitness

MOBILE, Ala. ( WKRG ) — Kids in Mobile have a new place to play as officials cut the ribbon for the playground at Frederick D. Richardson Jr. Tricentennial Park.

City officials said the park, which just had its opening ceremony on Thursday, July 11, has already been recognized as a Project of Excellence in PlayCore’s National Demonstration Site Network due to a unique design.

That unique design: a figure 8.

The sign that shows the recognition explains the park meets the “best practices in youth fitness through sliding, swinging, spinning, climbing, brachiating, and balancing.”

“This is a one-of-a-kind park. It’s a figure eight and I keep saying it reminds me of a roller coaster but it’s not,” Mobile Senior Director of Parks and Recreation Kim Carmody said. “Kids come out and they swing, they play, they develop friendships, they develop lasting memories.”

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