Redskins owner Dan Snyder (second from left) sits with Mayor Dwight Jones and others at Wednesday’s announcement. Photo by Michael Schwartz.
The Washington Redskins and Bon Secours are making their mark in the East End.
The charitable foundation of the NFL franchise and the nonprofit healthcare system ceremoniously broke ground Wednesday on a new $150,000 playground on the grounds of Woodville Elementary at 2535 Fairfield Ave., across from the Fairfield Court public housing complex.
The project will be a Play 60 playground, which is part of the NFL’s branded campaign to increase health and fitness among youth in America. It’s the second Play 60 playground to be built in the U.S.
The Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation will fund $100,000 of the project, and Bon Secours will cover the remaining $50,000. Cunningham Recreation will manage the construction.
Play 60 is the NFL’s campaign to get kids to be active for an hour each day. Rendering courtesy of Free Agents Marketing.
On hand at Wednesday’s event were Redskins owner Dan Snyder, Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones, City Councilwoman Cynthia Newbille, Richmond Schools Superintendent Dana Bedden, and Michael Robinson, who is CEO of both Bon Secours Richmond Community Hospital in the East End and Memorial Regional Medical Center in Mechanicsville.
The land on which the playground will be built is owned by the Richmond School Board. The board approved the plans last month and chose Woodville Elementary as the site for the project.
Jones, Newbille and Robinson explained that the project is the latest step in the so-called East End initiative, which seeks to make overall improvements to that part of the city.
Bon Secours pledged to make East End investments as part of its deal with the city on the Redskins training facility. That agreement called for Bon Secours to help fund the practice facility in exchange for a chance to control the city-owned Westhampton School property at Libbie and Patterson, while also agreeing to eventually develop a planned 25,000-square-foot medical office building in the East End.
The new playground is part of contributions Bon Secours is making to the East End outside of that formal agreement, which also include its annual Seed Grant program that divvies out money to startups in the area, and an announced new facility on Nine Mile Road.
Redskins owner Dan Snyder (second from left) sits with Mayor Dwight Jones and others at Wednesday’s announcement. Photo by Michael Schwartz.
The Washington Redskins and Bon Secours are making their mark in the East End.
The charitable foundation of the NFL franchise and the nonprofit healthcare system ceremoniously broke ground Wednesday on a new $150,000 playground on the grounds of Woodville Elementary at 2535 Fairfield Ave., across from the Fairfield Court public housing complex.
The project will be a Play 60 playground, which is part of the NFL’s branded campaign to increase health and fitness among youth in America. It’s the second Play 60 playground to be built in the U.S.
The Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation will fund $100,000 of the project, and Bon Secours will cover the remaining $50,000. Cunningham Recreation will manage the construction.
Play 60 is the NFL’s campaign to get kids to be active for an hour each day. Rendering courtesy of Free Agents Marketing.
On hand at Wednesday’s event were Redskins owner Dan Snyder, Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones, City Councilwoman Cynthia Newbille, Richmond Schools Superintendent Dana Bedden, and Michael Robinson, who is CEO of both Bon Secours Richmond Community Hospital in the East End and Memorial Regional Medical Center in Mechanicsville.
The land on which the playground will be built is owned by the Richmond School Board. The board approved the plans last month and chose Woodville Elementary as the site for the project.
Jones, Newbille and Robinson explained that the project is the latest step in the so-called East End initiative, which seeks to make overall improvements to that part of the city.
Bon Secours pledged to make East End investments as part of its deal with the city on the Redskins training facility. That agreement called for Bon Secours to help fund the practice facility in exchange for a chance to control the city-owned Westhampton School property at Libbie and Patterson, while also agreeing to eventually develop a planned 25,000-square-foot medical office building in the East End.
The new playground is part of contributions Bon Secours is making to the East End outside of that formal agreement, which also include its annual Seed Grant program that divvies out money to startups in the area, and an announced new facility on Nine Mile Road.
Of course the article fails to mention that after 3 years the plans for the renovation of the Westhampton site for nursing school or the medical office building/expansion of Community have not been filed with the City. I wonder if either will really open. This was supposed to improve two area of the city as well bring jobs and better health care to the area not build a couple of expensive playgrounds!