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C TY OF AT NTA DEPARTMENT of PARKS Office of General Manager Atlanta, Georgia 30303 May 11, 1967 JACK C. DELIUS GEN E RAL MANAGER Hon. Ivan Allen, Jr. Mayor City of Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia SUBJECT: Inquiry on Thomasville Park Site Dear Mayor Allen: Thank you for your letter of May 10, 1967 requesting information on Thomasville Park Site. This park is one of five urban renewal sites purchased with 1957 Bond Funds. $75,000 was ear-marked for the First Phase development of the park. As the enclosed bid tabulation will show, some $54,282 . 91 has already been spent on necessary and essential grading, drainage, retaining walls, grassing, etc. An additional $7,000 has been spent on topographic map s , plans and specifications, advertising f or bids, and water meters. Therefore, we have spent to date $61,424.63 . Contractor planted only Winter grass since it was that time of the year and he is now in a position to move back in and plant the permanent ground CX> Ver . At each a nd e very meeting we held with the citize ns o f Thomasville it wa s empha s ize d that the d e v e lopme n t o f t hi s park, like all par ks, had to be done in s t ages . A great deal o f work ha s b een done on the land which would not be realized by simply look ing at the park site ; for example, storm drainage is undergr ound and c annot b e s e e n . We a nt ici pate spen d ing an a ddi t ional $1 4 , 500 during cal endar year 1967 for the install ation of a ball fie l d and p l aygrou nd e qui pment . Thomasville , i n terms of a c r eag e , is t he large s t park site we h ave acquired i n any u r b a n ren e wa l area . As a resu lt, it will take conceiv abl y more mo ney to ·dev e lop o In develop ing Bu t l er u r ban renewal p a rk site a n d Rawson Washingto n u rban renewal park site we were d ealing with only three or four acres v ersu s some 14 at Thomasvil le . The r efo re , t h e $ 7 5, 00 0 we had a vail able t o s pend o n Butler and Rawson Wa s hington went a long way becau se there just wasn ' t that much groun d to deve lop. Thomasvi l le ~ a long way �Hon. Ivan Allen, Jr . Page Two from being completed and it along with some 75 other items make up a total minimum park need over the next five years of $18½ million. I have supplied all of the above information to Mr. Mosley on several occasions and he has also discussed this project with other people in the department. We have pointed out to Mr. Mosley that such parks as Wilson Mill, Joyland, Daniel Stanton, Harper Park, etc. are being built or were built in stages. Trusting the above will be of value, I am Cordially, ack C. Delius eneral Manager of Parks and Recreation JCD:bjw �