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Local park on its way to getting a total makeover Darren Dunn
(Seguin) -- More major upgrades are coming to Seguin’s Manuel Castilla Park. The park, located at the corner of Guadalupe and Martindale streets, recently received a new large pavilion — thanks to the Seguin Area Chamber of Commerce Leadership Class. Parks and Recreation Director Jack Jones says that partnership with the leadership class has sparked some additional improvements to be made soon by the city. Jones says the park will get a totally new playground, which will replace an outdated and undersized playscape currently in place. “What’s out there now is not our standards today. It’s 23 years old. It’s got pea gravel that needs to go. We have been working with recreation consultant Jeff Mankins with Play & Park Structures of Southern Texas, the same folks that did Bauer Park, the same folks that did Starke Park recently --very good company. And I said, I just want something different
this time. I need something that’s really going to pop and stand out because now with Castilla Park, if you look at the map, it is almost dead center of Seguin. A lot of people go there to play tackle football, jog on the track, cheerlead, picnics, you name it. A lot of stuff happens out there at the park, so I want it special,” said Jones. Jeff Mankins, a recreation consultant with Play & Park Structures in San Antonio, helped to come up with the new design. “We’re actually bringing in a GFRC tree. GFRC simply stands for glass fiber reinforced concrete. So, it’s a hand painted tree trunk that handles an eightfoot deck. And within that, we have a painted squirrel. We have a little owl. So, there’s some cute things for your kiddos to find,” said Mankins. Mankins says the new playground will be all-inclusive and it will be much larger than what’s currently in Manuel Castilla Park. Park, pg. 3