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Build Day 2026 · Completed

Holland Park

A playground for the neighborhood

Holland Park is a public park, not a school. Its basketball courts drew people in, but the open field beside them had nothing for younger kids. W4W worked with the City of Worcester Parks & Recreation and the park's neighborhood association to put a full play structure there, free to use, with no bell schedule and no gate.

A playground for the neighborhood at Holland Park
Organization
City of Worcester Parks & Recreation
Location
441 Lincoln St, Worcester, MA 01605
Site managers
Brendan Hyland, Brendan Manoogian, Bevan Doherty

Project scope

  • Play structure with two slides, climbing panels, and overhead rungs
  • Wood-chip safety surfacing inside a new bordered play area
  • Site cleared, levelled, and graded for the footings
  • Picnic table set alongside for families

How it happened

Weeks of preparation, finished on Build Day.

  1. Before
    The open field beside Holland Park's basketball courts, with the Build Day banner up.

    The open field beside Holland Park's basketball courts, with the Build Day banner up.

  2. 01
    Volunteers dug the footings and raised the structure, with a crew from Consigli working alongside them.

    Volunteers dug the footings and raised the structure, with a crew from Consigli working alongside them.

  3. After
    Finished and open to the neighborhood by the end of the day.

    Finished and open to the neighborhood by the end of the day.

Build Day 2026