City celebrates renovations to Fulwood Park
Published 12:18 pm Wednesday, February 26, 2025
The newly finished playground was already seeing plenty of play as city officials came together to celebrate its completion--mayor Julie Smith only saw fit to include them in the festivities, even working with them to cut the ribbon on the new set.
TIFTON — With the latest renovations to Fulwood Park completed, city officials are eager to continue enhancing the community space.
The City of Tifton celebrated the completion of the second phase of their project to renovate the park’s facilities the afternoon of Feb. 25, bringing together city staff, representatives of the contractors behind the upgrades, and a handful of kids from the community benefitting from the modifications, to commemorate the newly completed playground capping off the project.
Replacing the old wooden set on the northeastern end of the park, the new playground sports new, vibrant equipment and a softer, springier rubber turf that is safer for kids to play on.
Many children were doing just that during the ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the project’s completion, invited to join the festivities by Tifton mayor Julie Smith, who additionally expressed her excitement that the new playground will provide even more fun to the kids of the community.
“This [playground] is here for all kids and families to come and enjoy,” Smith said. “You never ride by this park that you don’t see kids all over this one, all over the other one…we’re really excited for the improvements.”
The new playground follows the overhaul of the set at the southwestern end of the park in the summer of 2024, which saw the same vibrant equipment and safer turf installed there. Other upgrades to Fulwood Park that the city has undertaken include the renovation of the park’s bathrooms, restoring their interiors and outfitting them with vandalism-resistant equipment.
Smith thanked the contractors and workers who had a hand in the project, including Bliss Products and Services, the playground equipment supplier who handled both the construction and installation of the new playgrounds, McRae Construction, the business behind the bathroom renovations, and the efforts of city and ESG Operations staff, whom she noted would be hard at work over the next few days prepping the park for the Rhythm & Ribs Festival coming up this weekend.
The mayor also announced that after the festival, the city’s attention would be turned to the Syd Blackmarr stage for their next renovation project.