Create Safer Playscape in Detroit's Historic Palmer Park

We want to create a safer play area for Detroit children in Palmer Park. The existing play scape includes damaged and missing pieces that cause a safety hazard for neighborhood children. The goal is to replace damaged pieces of play structure with more durable, long-lasting features by utilizing the existing play structure to minimize the costs of the project. We would also like to maintain features of the play scape utilized by adults for physical fitness. Specifically, we would like to: 1). remove damaged, enclosed crawl tunnel and replace with longer-lasting stepping stones creating open space; 2 and 3). remove old slide support and repair rubber and replace with longer-lasting stepping stones creating open space; and 4). use currently unused supports to create a social area and add bench seats to supports adding this as useable space. The landscaping is also neglected, and our garden club would like to plant flowers and make this area more cheery and inviting.