‘Ring Around City’ to close
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN, gmartin@sun-herald.com
Dennis Murphy, Punta Gorda growth management director, points out an area where construction of Linear Park Phase III is under way off Olympia Avenue Friday.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Dave Chadwick of Punta Gorda sits in a Gilchrist Park gazebo Friday. He plans to live on a sailboat in a nearby anchorage, so he supports the city's park-improvement plans.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
This gazebo in Gilchrist Park will undergo renovations this winter, to include the addition of a ramp to provide access for people with disabilities.
PUNTA GORDA — After some 25 years of planning, this city is poised to complete at least a scaled-back version of its “Ring Around the City” park projects this winter — and to refurbish a popular gazebo and interactive fountain area to boot, according to growth management director Dennis Murphy.
Murphy, a city staffer for some 20 years, acknowledged he has “lived, breathed and sometimes cried” over the projects, which include the Harborwalk, Linear Park and Multi-Use Recreational Trail, or MURT.
