New Recreation Complex in Nutley Is Dedicated
• Artificial Turf Facilities Require Fewer Workers
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Parks and Public Property Commissioner Mauro Tucci leads participants in the ceremonial groundbreaking for the new artificial turf recreational facility now in its final three weeks of being completed. The new area features a regulation size football field and night-time lighting.
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Members of the Nutley Little League which will be utilizing the new artificial-turf field later this summer were special guests at the noon-time dedication ceremony. (NJHometown is gathering more details abut these players for a better caption for this photograph.)
Jul 12, 2012 – What was once a quarry and later a town dump yesterday was dedicated as a brand new park which in another month will be home to a variety of athletic activities including a regulation sized football field complete with overhead lighting and 169,000 square feet of artificial turf.
The complex, hidden from a street view on the southwest side of Park Avenue, also includes two regulation sized softball fields, one for women and another for men; a regulation sized soccer field and and a smaller soccer area for "our little ones," as Commissioner Mauro Tucci describes.
The project is nearly 100 percent complete. Installation of the artificial turf will be one of the last items to be completed and the work on that project will be finished in within the next four weeks.
Nearly 100 youngsters along with parents and coaches from the town's recreation department joined others who will be utilizing the facility at today's noon-time dedication ceremony.
The project was funded with $750,000 in Green Acres monies together with other smaller grants and loans, Tucci said.
Tucci also emphasized that the use of artificial turf, now in place at all the town's recreational facilities, has proved to be a cost-saving to taxpayers.
"This new field is also going to save us lots of money because all of our artificial turf site require only minimum maintenance and that means we've been able to reduce the number of employees in the Parks Department," Tucci said in his remarks at the noon ceremony.
Remediation work at the site began three years ago when Nutley submitted its first application for funding to Trenton. Tucci thanked Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo, a Nutley resident, who assisted in the acquisition of funding for the project.
