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Here’s some great news for Cedar Park families! Their neighborhood playground has recently received much-needed repairs and upgrades.

Cedar Park neighbors, local families and City officials gathered on Saturday for a festive ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the newly restored playground.

The $121,000 project was funded entirely through Councilmember Jamie Gauthier’s discretionary capital funding. This is the first major upgrade to the playground in over 20 years.

Improvements to Cedar Park include replacing the damaged seesaw and adding a new play panel and spinner. The safety surfacing was also upgraded with a poured‑in‑place curb modification. The added interior shelf strengthens the rubber edge, making it more resilient against wear and tear and helping ensure many more years of safe play.

We cut the ribbon on Cedar Park Playground!

It had been more than 20 years since this playground got a real upgrade. Now it has a $120,000 renovation, fully funded through my office.

I try to be one of City Council’s fiercest champions for public spaces, because these are the places where brotherly love, sisterly affection, and sibling solidarity come to life.

Every young person in our community deserves a safe, up-to-date place to play and just be a kid.

Huge thanks to Maureen Tate and Cedar Park Neighbors for caring for Cedar Park all these years, and to Commissioner Slawson, Elisa Ruse-Esposito, and the entire Philadelphia Parks & Rec team for all that you do. Thanks, too, to the City of Philadelphia’s Capital Program Office.

Can’t wait to see the memories our families make here. 💛

— Councilmember Jamie Gauthier (@CouncilmemberJG) November 9, 2026