Commissions approve $4 million to finish Willie Woo Wong Park renovation in Chinatown

Planning and Recreation & Parks commissioners approved a $4,000,000 allocation from the Downtown Park Fund to expand renovations of Willie Woo Wong Park in Chinatown, bringing the project’s combined budget to $10,000,000 and clearing the way for a redesigned playground and upgraded clubhouse.

The vote came at a joint meeting where Planning Department staff described a design that preserves existing uses—courts, a playground and a clubhouse—adds ADA access and a proposed bridge connecting the clubhouse to upper courts, and incorporates “discovery play” with sculptural elements. Dawn Cumberland Avon, director of planning capital management for the Recreation and Parks Department, told commissioners the $4,000,000 request would supplement $6,000,000 previously allocated by San Francisco voters through the 2012 Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond and that staff hopes to begin construction in…