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Boardman Arts Park updates: new entrance and stage planned, volunteers and events draw thousands
Summary
At public comment, the Boardman Arts Park executive director thanked commissioners for a community enhancement grant that funded a new entrance and described plans for a 60-by-40-foot stage, mosaic panels, 19 events this year and an estimated $750,000 economic benefit.
Roxanne Amidon, executive director of Boardman Arts Park, used public comment at the June 16 Delaware County Commissioners meeting to thank the board for a community enhancement grant and to update commissioners on park improvements and programming.
Amidon said the grant helped fund a new park entrance off Williams Street that includes two community-created mosaic panels (to be installed in the coming weeks) and iridescent-resin "stars" that will echo the canopy planned over a new stage. She said the park will commemorate the county's support with a resin brick in the entrance.
Amidon described the new stage as a steel structure with an organic canopy made of interlocking resin stars, about 60 feet wide, 40 feet deep and roughly 20 feet high; it will include stage lighting and sound and additional lights and speakers at the park's central pergola. She said the fence and gate are installed and the county received final engineering for the footers last Friday; if approved, she expected construction to begin within weeks and hoped the stage would be ready in time for a late-August symphony program.
The park director said Boardman Arts Park plans 18 events this year with a nineteenth festival expected to be added in October, drawing an estimated 9,000 attendees and generating about $750,000 in economic benefit for Delaware. Amidon said the park remains an all-volunteer organization and that about 90 volunteers will help run the upcoming beer-and-wine festival.
Commissioners thanked Amidon and acknowledged the park's volunteer base and community role. No board action was required for the public comment update.
