New park, athletic fields coming to site of old hospital
The Greenville News - Greenville, S.C.
Author: April M Silvaggio
Date: May 27, 2004
Start Page: B.2
Section: Suburbs
Text Word Count: 320
Document Text
Facility will have two large athletic fields
By April M. Silvaggio
STAFF_WRITER
asilvagg@greenvillenews.com
Word that bulldozers will soon be churning up the earth to build a new park at the site of the old Greenville County Tuberculosis Hospital was great news Wednesday to Henrietta Tisdale.
"For years, that place over there hasn't been anything but an eyesore," said the 56-year-old grandmother, who lives less than a mile away.
"We've needed a park around here for a long time. The kids don't have nowhere to go."
All that will begin to change next week when Greenville County and the Greenville County Recreation District break ground on a $1.2 million park at the site on Beverly Road.
A groundbreaking ceremony is planned for 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
On that day, a sign will be unveiled naming the new facility for former County Councilman Dr. Dick Herdklotz.
The 29-acre site will be home to two oversized athletic fields -- which when used by youth ages 10 and under can be divided into four fields instead of two.
A .75-mile walking trail, a new playground and picnic shelters will also be built on the property.
The Tuberculosis Hospital occupied the site for more than two decades, closing in the 1950s. The state leased the building and used it as a work-release center for prisoners from 1974 until 1997.
When the state moved out, teens and vagrants moved in, officials said.
Graffiti covered the walls, and beer bottles littered the property until the building burned in November 2002.
Since then, the charred remnants of the building have been razed.
The new park could be finished as early as fall, Dan Rodgerson, executive director of the Recreation District, has said.
The cost of the park will be paid by a state grant and the county's insurance claim on the burned building.
Graphic: Staff
New park
Ground breaking June 3 for park at site of old TB hospital.
The Greenville News - Greenville, S.C.
Author: April M Silvaggio
Date: May 27, 2004
Start Page: B.2
Section: Suburbs
Text Word Count: 320
Document Text
Facility will have two large athletic fields
By April M. Silvaggio
STAFF_WRITER
asilvagg@greenvillenews.com
Word that bulldozers will soon be churning up the earth to build a new park at the site of the old Greenville County Tuberculosis Hospital was great news Wednesday to Henrietta Tisdale.
"For years, that place over there hasn't been anything but an eyesore," said the 56-year-old grandmother, who lives less than a mile away.
"We've needed a park around here for a long time. The kids don't have nowhere to go."
All that will begin to change next week when Greenville County and the Greenville County Recreation District break ground on a $1.2 million park at the site on Beverly Road.
A groundbreaking ceremony is planned for 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
On that day, a sign will be unveiled naming the new facility for former County Councilman Dr. Dick Herdklotz.
The 29-acre site will be home to two oversized athletic fields -- which when used by youth ages 10 and under can be divided into four fields instead of two.
A .75-mile walking trail, a new playground and picnic shelters will also be built on the property.
The Tuberculosis Hospital occupied the site for more than two decades, closing in the 1950s. The state leased the building and used it as a work-release center for prisoners from 1974 until 1997.
When the state moved out, teens and vagrants moved in, officials said.
Graffiti covered the walls, and beer bottles littered the property until the building burned in November 2002.
Since then, the charred remnants of the building have been razed.
The new park could be finished as early as fall, Dan Rodgerson, executive director of the Recreation District, has said.
The cost of the park will be paid by a state grant and the county's insurance claim on the burned building.
Graphic: Staff
New park
Ground breaking June 3 for park at site of old TB hospital.
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