New Woodland Park playground takes shape

Workers installed pieces of a new playground in Woodland Park Monday.

The playground was replaced because of age. The prior wooden playground, with some components rotted, was removed last month.

Schunk Excavating & Trucking of Cincinnati worked on Woodland, where the playground should be installed by the end of the week. The company will move to Jacobson Park to replace a playground that was mostly removed in February, according to Schunk’s Bruce Werner.

Removal of that older playground had caused a lot of concern. Plans called for keeping three of the playground’s original wooden towers to use in the new one.

This story was originally published May 10, 2016 at 3:39 PM with the headline "New Woodland Park playground takes shape."