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EmPOWERment Park Project Featured on abc10 News

Local abc10 news station recently featured a news piece on the inclusive EmPOWERment Park project and its impact on a child’s access to play. EmPOWERment Park is designed with socially inclusive principles to be a place where people of all abilities and ages, just like Mary Jane, can gather to play and recreate. The park […]

EmPOWERment Park

The Sacramento Parks Foundation was awarded $6,280,000 in Prop 68 funds for this project. O’Dell Engineering, a Westwood company provided grant assistance, public outreach, conceptual design, and estimating support to the Foundation. Our team developed a master plan for EmPOWERment Park, an outreach program (Placemaking Through Play) to maximize grant points, and the actual grant […]

Prop 68 – Improving One California Community at a Time

What is Prop 68? The Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization Program (Prop 68) is a competitive grant program that creates new parks and recreation opportunities in underserved communities across the state of California. Each of these parks and playgrounds will positively impact families, children, and adults alike by providing increased access to recreation. O’Dell […]

EmPOWERment Park Awarded $6.28 Million in Prop 68 Funding

In amazing news this week, our client, the Sacramento Parks Foundation, was awarded $6,280,000 in Prop 68 funds for EmPOWERment Park! This amazing park in Sacramento County will include a parking lot with 11 ADA spaces, a round-a-bout, a drop-off zone, welcome signage and a tactile park map, a community garden, a storage shed, an […]