Petersburg getting $3.4 million to renovate Patton Park

PETERSBURG, Va. (WRIC) — The City of Petersburg is getting $3,407,000 from the National Park Service (NPS) to renovate Patton Park.

According to the U.S. Department of the Interior, the funds are coming from a $254.68 million grant from the Land and Water Conservation Fund’s Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program.

The money from the grant — which is the largest in the program’s ten-year history — will fund 54 projects across 24 states. The Patton Park renovation is the only project in Virginia getting money from the grant.

“It’s great to see such an increase in community investment in the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership program,” said NPS director Chuck Sams. “This investment into these 54 locally-led projects is a prime example of the vital work the National Park Service is doing to improve access to the outdoors in your community and beyond national park borders.”

8News has reached out to the city for more information about the plans for the park.

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